Molly Callahan - News @ Northeastern

‘The longer you’re planning to be here, the more you have a stake’

During a wide-ranging conversation at Northeastern’s Boston campus Wednesday, Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, who is exploring a run for the presidency, dug into issues that he said will have an outsize effect on millennial voters.

by Molly Callahan April 3, 2019

Is Apple News Plus good for journalism?

Apple has launched the “Netflix for news,” a subscription service that gives users access to hundreds of magazine and newspaper publications all in one place for $9.99 a month. Apple News Plus may appeal to users, but it’s not good business for publishers, according to Dan Kennedy, who is an associate professor of journalism at Northeastern University.

by Molly Callahan April 1, 2019

How confetti cannons, Jiffy Pop, and Hula Hoops ended up in Chekhov’s The Three Sisters

How do you turn the city of Moscow into a character for the stage? When acclaimed Russian director Igor Golyak mused that perhaps the Russian capital should be turned into a living, breathing character in Northeastern’s performance of the Anton Chekhov play The Three Sisters, the challenge was one his student-actors had to figure out.

by Molly Callahan March 28, 2019

Will an ISIS bride be allowed to return to the US?

In 2014, a woman fled the United States to marry an Islamic State fighter in Syria. Now, widowed twice, she wants to return to the U.S. with her 18-month-old son. Whether she’ll be able to could set a major legal precedent, says Hemanth Gundavaram, who is co-director of the Immigrant Justice Clinic at Northeastern University.

by Molly Callahan March 28, 2019

How a ‘crazy’ idea became a Boston-wide student theater festival

Tiffany Jieting Yu wanted to start a theater festival for young, emerging playwrights, actors, and directors that wasn’t exclusive to just one institution or college. And now, she and a team of friends are just weeks from pulling it off.

by Molly Callahan March 25, 2019

How to build a boat and find yourself

Will Johnson, a student studying mechanical engineering at Northeastern, can thank a historic boat shop and a 16-foot skiff for helping him find his major.

by Molly Callahan March 23, 2019

How to fix democracy in the United States

Using an experimental setup similar to that used by pharmaceutical companies, Northeastern professor David Lazer and his colleagues were looking for ways to solve some of the biggest issues threatening democracy in the U.S. At the 55th annual Robert D. Klein Lecture on Thursday, Lazer described what they found.

by Molly Callahan March 21, 2019

Why aren’t energy companies capitalizing on ‘the Saudi Arabia of offshore wind’?

It will require specialized equipment and in-depth engineering research to stabilize offshore wind farms on the United States coasts, says Jerome Hajjar, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern University.

by Molly Callahan March 20, 2019

Social media has come under scrutiny after the New Zealand mosque shooting. But what about the news media?

The nonstop, global coverage of every facet of the attack in New Zealand that left 50 people dead has created a media narrative that only serves to reinforce such violence, says John Wihbey, an assistant professor at Northeastern whose research focuses on the intersection of news and social media.

by Molly Callahan March 19, 2019

Brexit ‘is a British problem,’ not a European Union problem

It was a new take on the college course, and it offered a different take on Brexit. In a lecture streamed live from NCH at Northeastern in London and viewed by participants in an agile “pop-up” course on the Boston campus, political science professor Mai’a Cross offered a view on Brexit that’s not often present in media coverage of the issue.

by Molly Callahan March 17, 2019

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