Know Your Professor Until now, college students mostly have relied on word of mouth, professors’ reputations, previous student evaluations and the often rude and anonymous comments (complete with a “hotness” ranking) on RateMyProfessors.com before choosing a professor for a particular class.
New York Post What your email signature says about you — and what to use instead Michael McCluskey, an associate teaching professor of English at Northeastern University, instructs his business classes the importance of spending time on an email signature. “You’re telling a story, whether or not you know it,” McCluskey told Northeastern Global News. “However you speak, however you write … it’s not just about the information you’re putting together. It’s […]
Vox Your boss is obsessed with productivity without knowing what it means “The research on this really does seem to be a complete mess, not in the sense that it’s bad research but in the sense that you can find research that points at positive effects, be it productivity or happiness or job satisfaction, or you can find research finding the opposite,” said Christoph Riedl, an associate […]
Everything to know about the common cold and how to treat symptoms “Our study is really focused on prevention, that initial exposure and how to enhance your defenses,” said lead author Mansoor Amiji, professor of pharmaceutical sciences at Northeastern University.
Marketplace Extending your holiday trip to work remotely has its joys … and its interrupted Zoom calls “You know, it’s really hard to know when someone is doing something where they need silence,” said Kimberly Eddleston, a management professor at Northeastern University.
The Street How to Create Your First Financial Budget “For information, I encourage students to read Wall Street Journal, New York Times, [and] Financial Times. Start reading those media, 20-30 minutes a day. That will help people to have better financial knowledge,” said Dr. Paul Chiou, associate teaching professor of finance, Northeastern University in Boston, MA.
Know Your Rights: Renting An Apartment In Greater Boston “Very often, when you’re able to articulate clearly what your expectations are on the basis of legal rights, landlords will back down or at least pause before they make demands of you, some of which may be illegal,” said Rashmi Dyal-Chand, a property law professor at Northeastern University. “That’s not always going to be the case, […]
Special Report: Philip Morris device knows a lot about your smoking habit Gregory Connolly, a professor at Northeastern University in Boston who has studied iQOS technology and patents, said Philip Morris’ ability to gather user data could give the device remarkable power. “What they’re going to have is a mega database of how Americans smoke,” he said. “Then they’ll be able to reprogram the current puffing delivery […]
Boston Herald bidder known for cost-cutting “If you have a single paper or a small chain, you have to do everything yourself and pay for it,” said Dan Kennedy, a media critic and Northeastern University journalism professor. A large chain such as GateHouse can spread out costs, do some things more efficiently, and potentially keep some small papers viable, he said. […]
WCAI Before the next hurricane, get your apps in order We all know we should have flashlights and water ready to go. Now, researchers at Northeastern University are advising we add something new to our hurricane readiness list – our cell phones and, yes, social media apps. We talk with Daniel Aldrich, a professor of political science, public policy, and urban affairs. He’s also director of […]
Yahoo! How meat labels trick your mind In the study, people reported that meat that carried a label saying it was from a factory farm tasted worse than meat labeled as “humanely raised,” when the samples were actually identical. The researchers said the results are a basic demonstration that our “affect” — which is a technical term for the ingredients of our […]
Daily Mail Does Free range chicken really taste better? Knowing how an animal was raised can trick our taste buds ‘We show that what you feel very directly influences not only how you interpret what you see but also very literally what you see,’ said Professor Lisa Feldman Barrett, an expert in the psychology of emotion at Northeastern University, in Massachusetts. ‘We call this ‘affective realism’ – the tendency of your feelings to influence the […]