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Jeffrey Konya named Northeastern director of athletics

Northeastern University has named Jeffrey Konya as its next director of athletics and recreation. Konya has more than two decades of experience in college athletics,…

Matthew McDonald January 10, 2018

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…

Matthew McDonald October 4, 2016

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…

Matthew McDonald September 15, 2016

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…

Matthew McDonald July 27, 2016

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…

Matthew McDonald July 25, 2016

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…

Matthew McDonald July 18, 2016

A spectator captures video of Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton at a press conference on Thursday following the fatal police shooting of Philando Castile in a St. Paul suburb. Photo by Lorie Shaull/Flickr

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…

Matthew McDonald July 8, 2016

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…

Matthew McDonald June 24, 2016

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…

Matthew McDonald April 12, 2016

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…

Matthew McDonald April 7, 2016

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