ESPN Next level If you’re an athlete, your skills, ambition and work ethic are supposed to determine your career path, rather than nepotism or insider connections. Which means you can come from anywhere and succeed. Clint Dempsey grew up in a trailer park in South Texas, playing soccer with migrant kids from across the Mexican border. LeBron James […]
WCVB TV When will vaccines be available for next groups? “We’ve been very sluggish at getting to this next level of vaccination — individuals that are 65 plus — and I have not seen a clear explanation for why it is that we have the vaccines here and are not getting them into people’s arms efficiently,” said Samuel Scarpino, an assistant professor in the Network […]
3 Years After Hurricane Harvey, Many Houston Homeowners Don’t Know Who’s At Risk Next “We would want to level that playing field as much as we can if we want a fair and equitable society, and therefore make risk information as widely available as we could to support that,” said Steven Flynn, director of the Global Resilience Institute at Northeastern University. “In theory, every good capitalist should be behind […]
Where did all the entry-level jobs go? The number of recruiters requesting two or more years of work experience for some middle-skill occupations rose as much as 30% from 2007 to 2010, according to a paper by economists at Harvard University and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. The slack labor market during that time offered a natural experiment, said one of […]
Men's Journal Ocean Technologies for the Next Era of Exploration A lot of marine scientists are more than happy to spend time in the ocean, placing instruments, taking samples, and getting a firsthand look around. Mark Patterson, an affable Harvard-educated professor of marine and environmental sciences at Northeastern University, takes it a bit farther. He’s lived on the seabed for a grand total of 87 days. […]
The Boston Herald Experts: Mass. economy will bounce back next year The Bay State’s economy will grow slowly this year before bouncing back in 2014, while the state’s unemployment rate is poised to fall to 5.2 percent by the last quarter of 2017, according to an economic forecast released today by the New England Economic Partnership. Massachusetts payroll employment is expected to grow 1 percent this […]
WCVB TV Conflicting expert opinions about COVID-19 vaccine rollout in Massachusetts “We’ve been very sluggish at getting to this next level of vaccination — individuals that are 65 plus — and I have not seen a clear explanation for why it is that we have the vaccines here and are not getting them into people’s arms efficiently,” said Samuel Scarpino, an assistant professor in the Network […]
WGBH Globe Editor Brian McGrory Accused Of Sexual Harassment Filling in for Jim Braude on WGBH’s Greater Boston, Adam Reilly asked me and Northeastern University’s Dan Kennedy whether the Globe should be reporting this. “People are struggling to make sense out of what happened, how serious it is and what the Globe should do about it,” said Kennedy. “What Linda and John Henry might be […]
ESPN Former Northeastern swimmer helps athletes fund their dreams Emily White was a music industry major and a scholarship swimmer at Northeastern University in Boston. In 2012, she combined her two interests to start Dreamfuel, a platform that helps elite and youth athletes raise money to help get them to the next level. Dreamfuel has since been contacted by the president of the Afghanistan […]
Should haunted houses ‘send in the clowns’ this Halloween? This is the 12th year that Barrett, a neuroscientist who heads the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory at Northeastern University and Massachusetts General Hospital, has run the haunted house out of her home. The one-night charity event, which will take place on Oct. 28 this year, raises thousands of dollars for the Greater Boston Food Bank. […]
The global eduplex WHEN IT COMES to education, Massachusetts has always been a land of firsts. We launched the nation’s first college and its first public school. Today we’re first in the United States in K-12 student achievement. Now we should take our leadership to the next level, and find a bold new way to prepare our children, […]
Northeastern University students make successfully stylish statements Located in the heart of Boston, Northeastern University has a lot to offer. One program that takes my school to the next level, however, is the co-op program. To put it simply, when a student is on co-op, they are working during the semester instead of taking classes. It’s like a preview of the real […]