A cautious Fed holds key interest rate steady William Dickens, chairman of the economics department at Northeastern University, said he remains concerned about the millions of Americans who dropped out of the workforce during the recession who have not returned to jobs. These workers — and those taking part-time jobs because they can’t get full-time work — are not included in the official […]
Cape Cod Times Seeing the great white sharks below using drones Vincent Harris, an electrical and computer engineering professor at Northeastern University, believes that drones are a good, and relatively inexpensive, way to patrol the Cape’s beaches as well. “My personal feeling is that drones are here to stay,” said Harris, who does classified research on drone technology for the military. “They will use them routinely […]
Wages in Greater Boston are rising faster than anywhere in the country Another factor in rising wages may be that high-tech employers are more prone to hire talent away from competitors than to train new employees — and hiring people who already have good jobs often requires paying a premium to get them. Economist Alan Clayton-Matthews, head of the Dukakis Center at Northeastern University, also cited globalization […]
Telecommuting won’t fix snow woes When I called Barry Bluestone on Tuesday (to interview him for a different column), he was at home getting work done — responding to e-mails and so on. That’s what you’d expect from a Northeastern University economist who’s written extensively on issues affecting the local labor market. Nevertheless, Bluestone argued that telecommuting has been oversold […]
Marketplace In safety Rx, NFL makes high profile recruit Elizabeth Nabel will be looking at the work the NFL’s advisors have already done and are currently engaged in. Cantu says Nabel will bring her leadership background in running a major hospital, and the resultant skill set of working with many medical experts. “As an administrator of a high-profile hospital, with the natural egos that […]
In time of disruption, media companies and colleges look to each other for help Northeastern University and Esquire are collaborating at a smaller scale, but with a similar innovation-oriented goal. This spring, the university’s journalism school will run a course where students will take traditional pieces in the Esquire archive and “reimagine” them for a digital audience. Tyler Cabot, senior features editor at Esquire, says the magazine is looking […]
Ebola Forecast: What To Expect Now And How To Contain Future Outbreaks A digital surveillance program used Twitter feeds and news headlines to pick up on the Ebola outbreak in West Africa a full nine days before the World Health Organization proclaimed it an epidemic. But that doesn’t mean the outbreak could have been prevented. Dr. Alessandro Vespignani, a professor of computer science and physics at Northeastern University, uses network science to model […]
What would happen if someone got Ebola in America? Let’s get one thing straight: You are not going to get Ebola. Donald Trump is not going to get Ebola. You are more likely to be killed by Batman, the ride. Ebola-like viruses have already breached our borders, and there were no secondary infections. There are airport workers whose job it is to identify passengers […]
Northeastern University students make successfully stylish statements Located in the heart of Boston, Northeastern University has a lot to offer. One program that takes my school to the next level, however, is the co-op program. To put it simply, when a student is on co-op, they are working during the semester instead of taking classes. It’s like a preview of the real […]
What on earth is this thing and how exactly can it help me? Elderly people often have to undergo surgery to replace their old hip joints with shiny new titanium ones. Unfortunately, these hip implants are not as good as they could be – an estimated 15% of hip replacement surgeries in the USA were for already replaced hips. Thomas Webster of Northeastern University is working on a […]
Micro-apartments: Boston’s housing solution or developers’ cash cow? About a third of Bostonians are between the ages of 20 and 34. The city is home to the largest percentage of millennials in the country. “What we need to really do is have an effort to build housing for this particular population in the same way that we went ahead and built that housing […]
Maybe We Should Stem the Panic and Consider Needs Ms. Stotsky thinks that all high-school students should be required to take trigonometry and precalculus to be ready for the brave new world of science, technology, engineering and math. Even if the STEM crisis were real, this is not a good idea. Of course, advanced math classes should be offered, but there is no reason […]