A Big IDEA The global economic crisis of the last five years has concentrated our collective attention, both here in the U.S. and around the world, on the need for jobs — as well as the need for strategies to support meaningful economic growth. Clearly, higher education has an important role to play here. For example, a December […]
Voice of America US Students’ ‘Big Idea’ Could Help NASA Explore Moon A serpentlike robot designed by students from Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, could revolutionize how NASA astronauts explore the lunar surface.
The big idea: do animals have emotions? Lisa Feldman Barrett is a professor of psychology at Northeastern University and the author of How Emotions Are Made (Pan Macmillan).
The big idea: is it time to stop talking about ‘nature versus nurture’? Lisa Feldman Barrett is a professor of psychology at Northeastern University, Boston, and the author of Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain.
Reflecting on the original big idea for MOOCs MOOCs are far from dead. Rather, they appear to hatch derivatives. Sean Gallagher of Northeastern University’s Center for the Future of Higher Education and Talent Strategy refers to this as “the new ecology of credentials”, a landscape transforming rapidly as we move from the early knowledge economy to the digital, AI, Gig economy.
Dear Mr. President: Your big idea on drug pricing is half-baked “Any smart country would fight back, though, because they’re at the mercy of [pharmaceutical] monopolies,” said Brook Baker, a professor at Northeastern University School of Law and a senior policy analyst for Health GAP, a group that advocates for wider access to medicines. “It’s not that these countries are getting a free ride. What you […]
Popsci Big idea for 2016: A new weapon to fight superbugs In 2015, scientists discovered the first new antibiotic in three decades. Called teixobactin, it works against several of the superbugs, such as MRSA, that today’s drugs seem powerless to wipe out. That’s a big win in an age of growing antibiotic resistance. But perhaps even more pivotal is the tool that made its discovery possible. Antibiotics […]
El Pais ‘People have no idea’: How smart devices spy on us and reveal information about our homes “One of the biggest problems is the invasion of privacy,” says David Choffnes, professor at Northeastern University in Boston and one of the co-authors of the work.
IN THE BIG DIG’S SHADOW Thanks largely to computer modeling, engineers now have a better idea how a building can — or can’t — be built, said Jerome Hajjar, an engineering professor at Northeastern University. Designers can test different layouts or materials in ways they couldn’t in years past. “It doesn’t make it easy,” he said, “but it makes it […]
Scientists Support an Idea Long Thought Outlandish: Reflecting the Sun’s Rays Jennie Stephens, director of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Northeastern University, said that geoengineering research takes money and attention from the core problem, which is cutting emissions and helping vulnerable communities cope with the climate disruptions that are already happening. “We need to double down on bigger transformative changes,” Dr. Stephens […]
Rolling Stone And justice for none: Inside biggest law enforcement scandal in Massachusetts history Lastly, it contrived to keep thousands of people in jail, even after the evidence came to light. “It was a catastrophic failure by the attorney general’s office, and calls into question the idea that prosecutors are beacons of fairness,” says Daniel Medwed of Northeastern University, author of Prosecution Complex: America’s Race to Convict and Its […]
‘Boyish ideas of what it takes to be a man’ STEREOTYPED AS WEAK and effeminate, Asian-American men often struggle in a society that has “boyish ideas of what it takes to be a man,” according to Alex Tizon, a former national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times and the author of “Big Little Man.” Those boyish ideas, based largely on obsessions with physical strength, height, […]