Harnessing an important resource

The road to a level playing field for New England’s colleges and universities goes through the city of Holyoke. A massive data processing center has been humming there for five years, built to take advantage of the former industrial city’s inexpensive electricity. Five of the state’s biggest schools — MIT, Harvard, BU, Northeastern and UMass […]

Hospital owner eyes cutting-edge therapies

Boston-based medical giant Partners HealthCare is doling out $1 million in grants to get cutting-edge therapies from food allergy cures to scarless biopsies on the market within five to seven years, and at least three new local biotech companies are expected to emerge as a result.

Will Grad Students Lose the Right to Unionize Under Trump?

Trevor Hull wakes up every morning and goes to a lab where he mixes chemicals together, using materials like lead and cadmium to synthesize other substances. A man who he calls his boss sometimes gives him directions and orders, and he’s paid on a bi-weekly basis. He says he feels like he works at a […]

Searching for Life around the Stars

To the epic search for life on other planets, Mark Veyette brings some of science’s most formidable technology: 300-pound infrared telescopes in Hawaii. The supercomputer center BU helped create in Holyoke, Mass. And his cell phone.

HubSpot’s Mike Volpe lands another CMO job

We can’t resist pointing out the irony of Mike Volpe’s new gig. A memory refresher: Volpe (right) was fired as HubSpot’schief marketing officer last year after the Cambridge marketing software firm allegedly tried to block publication of a book — “Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble” by writer and former HubSpot employee Dan Lyons — that skewered its “frat-house-meets-cult-compound” culture.

Disparity in Salaries Between Genders Has Provoked Debate

In the past year, the persistent wage gap between male and female earners has become a topic of national conversation. In the past year, the persistent wage gap between male and female earners has become a topic of national conversation. Prominent actors including Patricia Arquette, Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper have openly criticized Hollywood for underpaying its […]

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