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Next level
If you’re an athlete, your skills, ambition and work ethic are supposed to determine your career path, rather than nepotism or insider connections. Which means you can come from anywhere and succeed. Clint Dempsey grew up in a trailer park in South Texas, playing soccer with migrant kids from across the Mexican border. LeBron James […]
Refresh Miami
Northeastern’s Miami campus receives $200K in JPMorganChase support for university’s local entrepreneurship programs
JPMorgan Chase has committed $200,000 to support Northeastern University’s Miami Innovation Academy and Next Level X Northeastern programs on the university’s recently opened Miami campus.
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When will vaccines be available for next groups?
“We’ve been very sluggish at getting to this next level of vaccination — individuals that are 65 plus — and I have not seen a clear explanation for why it is that we have the vaccines here and are not getting them into people’s arms efficiently,” said Samuel Scarpino, an assistant professor in the Network […]
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Conflicting expert opinions about COVID-19 vaccine rollout in Massachusetts
“We’ve been very sluggish at getting to this next level of vaccination — individuals that are 65 plus — and I have not seen a clear explanation for why it is that we have the vaccines here and are not getting them into people’s arms efficiently,” said Samuel Scarpino, an assistant professor in the Network […]
3 Years After Hurricane Harvey, Many Houston Homeowners Don’t Know Who’s At Risk Next
“We would want to level that playing field as much as we can if we want a fair and equitable society, and therefore make risk information as widely available as we could to support that,” said Steven Flynn, director of the Global Resilience Institute at Northeastern University. “In theory, every good capitalist should be behind […]
WGBH
Globe Editor Brian McGrory Accused Of Sexual Harassment
Filling in for Jim Braude on WGBH’s Greater Boston, Adam Reilly asked me and Northeastern University’s Dan Kennedy whether the Globe should be reporting this. “People are struggling to make sense out of what happened, how serious it is and what the Globe should do about it,” said Kennedy. “What Linda and John Henry might be […]
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Former Northeastern swimmer helps athletes fund their dreams
Emily White was a music industry major and a scholarship swimmer at Northeastern University in Boston. In 2012, she combined her two interests to start Dreamfuel, a platform that helps elite and youth athletes raise money to help get them to the next level. Dreamfuel has since been contacted by the president of the Afghanistan […]
Should haunted houses ‘send in the clowns’ this Halloween?
This is the 12th year that Barrett, a neuroscientist who heads the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory at Northeastern University and Massachusetts General Hospital, has run the haunted house out of her home. The one-night charity event, which will take place on Oct. 28 this year, raises thousands of dollars for the Greater Boston Food Bank. […]
WGBH
How the Globe’s home-delivery woes morphed from an annoyance into a crisis
Boston Globe owner John Henry now has a full-blown crisis on his hands. Before Sunday night, the Globe’s inability to deliver newspapers to its paying customers looked like an annoying but manageable problem—provided it was solved within the next few days. But the stunning revelation by the paper’s new distributor that it could take four […]
The global eduplex
WHEN IT COMES to education, Massachusetts has always been a land of firsts. We launched the nation’s first college and its first public school. Today we’re first in the United States in K-12 student achievement. Now we should take our leadership to the next level, and find a bold new way to prepare our children, […]
CBC News
Ebola surging beyond control, WHO’s Margaret Chan warns
New predictions suggest the epidemic could grow to alarming levels in the next few months
The art and science of choosing a new location
Ted Clark, executive professor of entrepreneurship and innovation at Northeastern University, where he also serves as the director of the Center for Family Business, says that though Hibbert’s thriving Orange County locations prove that her business model works, she needs to keep in mind that Fashion Camp is a niche business. Therefore, Clark believes that […]