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A higher profile, by design
The Massachusetts College of Art and Design, the oldest public arts school in the country, is pursuing a $120 million expansion and redesign of its campus along Huntington Avenue, joining a slew of colleges and museums whose building projects are rapidly redefining Boston as a hub for contemporary art.
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As society becomes increasingly cashless, is Massachusetts ready?
There is no federal statute mandating that businesses must accept currency. But under Massachusetts law, retail establishments have to take cash. This leaves businesses like restaurants wondering if they qualify as a retail establishment, which is defined as any business that sells either a service or tangible personal property. While many would argue a restaurant provides a service, WGBH […]
Trump’s one good foreign policy idea: neutrality in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Most of what Donald Trump has to say is either ignorant, offensive or both. That’s especially true when it comes to foreign policy. Yet when he’s pushed to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — among the more politically charged issues in this election cycle — Trump actually makes some sense. During an MSNBC town hall meeting […]
Boston Magazine
A Northeastern student is using 3D printing to make affordable prosthetics
Brian Fountaine knows how difficult it is to live with prosthetic limbs–10 years ago, he became a double below-the-knee amputee after sustaining a combat injury in Iraq. What he didn’t know, however, is how expensive it is to get those prosthetics in the first place. “I, for lack of a better term, was lucky, because […]
Killer’s appeal could guide Tsarnaev’s plan
“There are some cases right now that are going to change the dynamic of how the courts will look at this issue,” said Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University. He said appeals courts are generally reluctant to overturn a judge’s decision unless a clear error is evident. But the influx of social media […]
Guns don’t deter sexual assaults
The risk and response to campus sexual assault has been a blazing hot topic as of late, not just at our nation’s colleges and universities but on Capitol Hill as well. The often-repeated yet exaggerated claimthat one in five college females are sexually assaulted during their undergraduate years has pushed congressional legislation designed to reduce […]
U.S. News
Do some women choose to make less than men?
As heads of the social enterprises, the females’ and males’ salaries obviously depend on the success of the businesses. Due to this, the researcher proposed that female-owned enterprises may be smaller and designed that way by women according to their inherent preferences for risk aversion and other factors. And, since women factor in business size, […]
Work ready or not
Recently, the McKinsey Center for Government released the second in its “Education to Employment” series of the reports. The first, “Education to Employment: Designing a System that Works,” released in December 2012, looked at global youth unemployment challenges and the roles of higher education institutions and employers in helping students to make the transition from […]
National Post
Third world lessons in healthcare: how ‘reverse innovation’ could revolutionize Canada’s medical landscape
Blindness costs Canadians almost $16-billion a year, with two of its leading causes, diabetic retinopathy and glaucoma, often detected too late to prevent vision loss. Two University of Toronto medical students may have a found a solution, however — in India. Jeff Martin and Mohan Pandit say a device known as 3nethra, which comes from […]
Scientific American
Why big data isn’t necessarily better data
Tech companies—Facebook, Google and IBM, to name a few—are quick to tout the world-changing powers of “big data” gleaned from mobile devices, Web searches, citizen science projects and sensor networks. Never before has so much data been available covering so many areas of interest, whether it’s online shopping trends or cancer research. Still, some scientists […]
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Northeastern University steps up for military
It’s one more example of spreading fallout from the partial federal government shutdown: Some two dozen active-duty U.S. military personnel beginning classes next week at Northeastern University were going to be forced to withdraw from NU’s College of Professional Studies because their Pentagon tuition aid has been shut down. But Monday, Northeastern president Joseph Aoun […]
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Will MOOCs Make The ‘Ivory Tower’ Obsolete?
On a recent sunny afternoon at Northeastern University, President Joseph Aoun mingles with incoming freshmen. As a member of the American Council on Education, Aoun is urging higher-education institutions to embrace disruptive technologies such as MOOCs to expand their reach. He says Northeastern is already taking the lead. “We are in Charlotte, we are in […]