Posts by Matthew McDonald
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Board of Trustees approves new academic plan, Northeastern 2025
Last week, the Northeastern University Board of Trustees approved Northeastern 2025, the university’s academic plan for the next decade. In a message to the campus…
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Could real-time projections be a game-changer for Election Day coverage?
On Nov. 8, a group of data scientists and journalists will buck a decades-old tradition by releasing real-time Election Day projections. Renowned statistician Nate Silver…
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3Qs: The strategy of selecting a vice presidential candidate
After weeks of intense public speculation, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton introduced their vice presidential candidates. That got us wondering how presidential hopefuls select their…
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How Ailes’ fall could signal more changes at Fox News
Roger Ailes is out at Fox News. The media tycoon resigned on Thursday, just two weeks after former anchor Gretchen Carlson filed a lawsuit alleging…
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Making sense of today’s political conventions
With the Republican National Convention set to begin on Monday in Cleveland, Ohio, we spoke with Northeastern professor William Crotty about what actually happens at…
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Witness videos and the conversation about race and policing
Police in Louisiana shot and killed Alton Sterling on Tuesday. A day later, police in Minnesota fatally shot Philando Castile. Both men were black. And…
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3Qs: SCOTUS rejects affirmative action challenge
In a win for affirmative action advocates, the Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a challenge to a program at the University of Texas that considers…
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Northeastern named one of 50 colleges that ‘launch careers, create futures’
The Princeton Review has named Northeastern as one of 50 colleges “that launch careers by going beyond the classroom.” The recognition follows a wide-ranging survey—reported…
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And the winners are…
The breadth and depth of Northeastern’s research and entrepreneurial spirit was on full display Thursday at RISE:2016, the university’s Research, Innovation, and Scholarship Expo. Industry…
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3Qs: Justice Scalia’s legacy, and what his death means for politics and the law
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s death touched off a political debate that could define President Obama’s final year in office and bring drama to an…
