Marquis Cabrera, Foster Skills The deck is stacked against children in foster care. No one knows that better than Marquis Cabrera, a former foster kid who beat the odds to graduate college. Now he’s trying to help other foster children achieve life success through his nonprofit social enterprise, Foster Skills. Cabrera moved from a rough […]

Now that LinkedIn is a decade old and has 225 million members, its fastest-growing demographic –30 million and counting—is students and those who are three years or less out of college. Though LinkedIn’s user agreement says that members agree they are at least 18 years old, I am going to make a recommendation and a prediction: High […]

Last year, a report from the Entertainment Software Association of Canada claimed that a whopping one-fifth of computer games in the US and Canada were pirated. It was just the latest in a series of assertions from the industry that file sharing is losing them billions of dollars. Figures such as this, though, are heavily […]

The nurse and the soldier may never have met – and eventually married – had it not been for the American government’s mistreatment of black women during World War II. Elinor Elizabeth Powell was an African-American military nurse. Frederick Albert was a German prisoner of war. Their paths crossed in Arizona in 1944. It was […]

Northeastern University announced Monday that its campus will go completely smoke-free beginning fall 2013 in an effort to improve campus-wide health, making it one of the first large Boston colleges to do so. The decision came after months of research, discussion, and polling done by a 10-person committee made up of both faculty and students, […]

A large-scale analysis of BItTorrent file-sharing of videogames has shown that the number of illicit digital copies is not as high as reported by industry trade organisations. Anders Drachen from the Department of Communication and Psychology at Aalborg University and the PLAIT Lab at Northeastern University as well as Robert Veitch from the Department of IT Management at […]

WBUR’s Martha Bebinger reports that starting this fall, Northeastern University will join a growing number of college campuses that are smoke-free, both inside and out. Northeastern Dean of Health Sciences Terry Fulmer says going smoke-free will save student’s lives. “If you smoke when you’re younger, you’re more likely to be addicted for life,” Fulmer said. […]

The university formally announced Tuesday that it will be among the first colleges in the Boston area to implement a campus-wide ban on smoking. While other Greater Boston colleges ban smoking within so many feet of a building or just on their medical campuses, Northeastern’s new policy bans smoking on all campus grounds. “There’s a […]

Northeastern University plans to adopt a smoke-free policy for the upcoming fall semester, according to an e-mail sent today to the university community. Dean of the Bouvé College of Health Sciences Terry Fulmer wrote that last month, a committee comprised of students, faculty, and staff, proposed that the university adopt a smoke-free policy for the […]

In 1872, Charles Darwin published The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, a book that cataloged emotional expressions in humans and their link to the animal world. In the book, Darwin described more than 50 universal emotions. Now Facebook, with the help of a psychologist who studies emotions and a Pixar illustrator, has turned some […]

Micro apartments are rapidly becoming the favorite affordable housing solution for young professionals and moderate-income renters in high-cost, crowded cities like New York and San Francisco. But the reality of living in less than 400 square feet is seldom as charming as all those pictures of custom Swedish furniture suggest. The reality looks more like this: Your bed is also […]

With all the work happening in and around Roxbury’s Dudley Square, three Northeastern University students have created their own vision for a parcel in the neighborhood. Ryan Matthew, Mark Munroe, and Chris Marciano, all recent graduates of the university’s undergraduate architecture program, designed a series of buildings for the neighborhood that they think can provide […]