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 … read more »
World Bank president Jim Yong Kim to give Northeastern commencement speech
Jim Yong Kim, president of the World Bank, is scheduled to deliver Northeastern University’s 111th commencement address on May 3, the school’s president announced this week. Kim, the former Dartmouth College … read more »
Northeastern alum goes for round two on Shark Tank
After successfully funding and building her first company with a Shark Tank pitch, Northeastern alumna Rebecca Rescate was back on last week, trading feline potty training for a pillow that … read more »
Colleges going green
According to the GreenMetric Ranking of World Universities, Northeastern University as the greenest university in America in 2011, and the second greenest in the world that year, behind the University … read more »
U-Turn Audio blows past $70k Kickstarter goal for affordable, high-quality turntable
Physical media is dead; long live physical media — particularly of the vinyl variety, as U-Turn Audio’s Orbit breaks the $100,000 mark on Kickstarter to deliver a high-end player at … read more »
Reverse innovation’s big impact for consumers
For most of the last two centuries innovations have flowed from rich countries to poor countries, but in the coming decades we are likely to see innovations also flow in … read more »
“It’s Like Legal Rebellion”: Student Entrepreneurship at Northeastern University
When senior Dan Wendt attended his first Northeastern Entrepreneurship Club meeting in 2009 as a freshman, fifteen people showed up. A few years later though, the Entrepreneurship Club, which was … read more »
Out of foster care, Northeastern grad works to help other foster kids
Marquis Cabrera, CEO and founder of Foster Skills, has a very personal motivation for working with foster children: He once was one himself. Given his academic and professional success, it may … read more »
NU welcomes gay jocks
Gay athletes are used to being singled out. When it’s in a good way, it comes as a pleasant surprise. Northeastern Athletics Director Peter Roby recently made it clear just … read more »
Napolitano gives Veterans Day address in Boston
Kristin Jamison never met her father before he lost his life in Vietnam. Marine Cpl. Robert Lewis Curry died in the line of duty after volunteering to take someone else’s patrol. Now … read more »
Northeastern president Joseph Aoun has own YouTube web series
The President of Northeastern University, Joseph Aoun, is now somewhat of a YouTube celebrity, having been in a total of four short films in the past year. The videos promote Northeastern’s … read more »
PHOTOS: Northeastern celebrates naming of business school
Northeastern University students faculty and staff celebrated the official naming of the D’Amore-McKim School of Business Friday.