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 … read more »

Think col­lege cam­puses are just about the class­rooms? Think again. We vis­ited some of Boston’s best campus gyms, and what we found—juice bars, lazy rivers, climbing walls, and kayak rentals—will … read more »

I’ve written a lot over the past few months about how inex­pen­sive and large-​​​​scale online col­lege pro­grams, such as EdX, are dra­mat­i­cally changing the face of higher edu­ca­tion, and how … read more »

Throughout the dining halls on Boston’s cam­puses, stu­dents that decide to take the animal-​​​​free route embark on a chal­lenge. Many stu­dents rely on campus dining halls for all of their … read more »

In the wake of a media scandal, jour­nalism pro­fes­sors in Boston will finally be able to answer the age-​​​​old ques­tion: “When will we ever use this in real life?” As the … read more »

Ready or not, Boston is ramping up for another building boom. There are at least five major res­i­den­tial projects under review at City Hall, including ones for Stuart Street, Copley Place, … read more »

One of the most chal­lenging aspects of treating patients with ALS, or Lou Gehrig’€™s dis­ease, is fig­uring out whether the treat­ments are working at all. That’s because patients are often … read more »

How do you get people to get beyond the city limits to explore the Harbor Islands? A study in approaches: