What’s the future of higher education? There might be no one better to answer the question than Lawrence Bacow, the former president of Tufts, and Joseph Aoun, the president of Northeastern.

SEATTLE-A new campus has been created for Northeastern University—Seattle. Designed by the Seattle office of international architecture and design firm Perkins+Will, the University’s extension campus is located in the flourishing South Lake Union neighborhood. Although those involved could not disclose any construction price, we learned that the campus and its location are designed to “enhance the […]

The jobless rate has been edging downward, but the long-term unemployed have been left out. Do we need a targeted program to get these 4.8M Americans back to work?

“It certainly lends some evidence of prior planning and at least a fascination with these kind of incidents, if not using it as a way to sort of develop a plan,” said Jack McDevitt, associate dean in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University. Other killers have been found with materials from […]

Soviet officials reportedly were miffed by the depiction of an American who was at first besotted by the radical ideas of the revolution but who lost faith as the totalitarian aftermath set in. They immediately gave the green light to an ambitious multi-part film saga dubbed “Red Bells,” says Northeastern University Russian expert, Harlow Robinson, […]

Massachusetts House Speaker Robert DeLeo has named an eight-member panel to advise him on the way to address gun violence. The Winthrop Democrat said he formed the group in the wake of the shooting in Newtown, Conn., and other recent mass killings. DeLeo said the group will suggest laws that would help avoid similar tragedies. […]

“We need to have a lot more nurse practitioners on the job,” said Terry Fulmer a nurse and the dean of Bouve College of Health Sciences at Northeastern University. “Obviously, they don’t have the education of a physician, but they are highly trained professionals. And if the outcome is equal to what a doctor would […]

This tax season, it’s the rare filer who still fills out a paper form by hand. But not rare enough, in the view of the state Department of Revenue.

Honey bee populations have been diminishing at alarming rates in recent years. Many environmentalists and scientists have brought awareness to the bees’ significant role in the ecosystem.

With the 12 June 2012 death of Lonesome George, the last known full-blooded Pinta Island tortoise (Chelonoidis nigra abingdonii), his subspecies apparently became extinct. [However, there is DNA evidence from intraspecific hybrids suggesting that some undiscovered individuals survive in the wild (1).]

A group of 57 local economists has signed a letter backing Governor Deval Patrick’s revenue-raising plan to fund $1.9 billion dollars’ worth of education and transport upgrades. This latest endorsement comes after the Governor’s proposals met with resistance last week from House Speaker Robert DeLeo, who called for a much more moderate revenue package.

A few years ago, Stephen Feldman and his wife came close to undertaking a major renovation of their growing family’s three-bedroom home in Medfield. But still recovering from the hit their savings took in the 2008 stock market plunge, the Feldmans decided to put off their plans.