Posts by Kara Shemin
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Northeastern to invest more than $220 million in financial aid
The university will provide an unprecedented $221.4 million in institutional grant aid for the 2014-15 academic year.
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Northeastern launches Social Impact Lab to empower global change
The innovative new lab provides curricula, programming, and events designed to empower social change and includes a re-launch of “Giving With Purpose,” the world’s first…
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3Qs: Losing our religion?
The Pew Research Center American Values Survey, which polled more than 3,000 adults nationwide, found that approximately one in five Americans don’t have a religious…
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3Qs: A ‘symbol of an unfulfilled promise’
Anne Frank, one of the most well known Jewish victims of the Holocaust, was captured by the Nazi Gestapo on Aug. 4, 1944, 68 years…
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The husky wears Prada
A journalism student has spent the last year working at Vogue magazine, turning her co-op and internship into a full-time summer job.
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3Qs: China overtakes U.S. in smartphone market
Fareena Sultan, professor of marketing in the College of Business Administration, explains how and why China has become the king of the mobile phone market.
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Faculty Reads, Volume 10
In the 10th edition of recent faculty books, we highlight works about the unintended consequences of our decision-making, a fiction piece about a grad student’s…
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3Qs: Analyzing Greece’s latest bailout
On Monday evening, Greece agreed to a last-minute economic bailout deal – its second – which may have warded off an all-out financial calamity in…
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3Qs: Forecasting 2012 for the BRIC nations
In 2001, Goldman Sachs grouped the BRIC countries — Brazil, Russia, India and China — into that acronym because they were at a similar stage…
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Faculty Reads, Volume Nine
In the ninth edition of recent faculty books, we highlight works about effective typography, the ethics of philanthropy and the spiritual undertones of jazz legend…
