Higher-education administrators are warming up to adaptivity, too. In a recent Inside Higher Ed/Gallup poll, 66 percent of college presidents said they found adaptive-learning and testing technologies promising. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has launched the Adaptive Learning Market Acceleration Program, which will issue 10$100,000 grants to U.S. colleges and universities to develop adaptive […]

The cover quickly drew a negative reaction on social media, with “Boycott Rolling Stone” becoming a trending Twitter topic in Boston. Northeastern University criminologist Jack Levin told MyFoxBoston.com that he feared the cover would simply add to the hype surrounding the case and send the wrong message to potentially disaffected people. “If they want to […]

More fixes are appearing for a pair of highly dangerous vulnerabilities exposed earlier this month in the Android mobile operating system. Security vendor Webroot and ReKey, a collaboration between Northeastern University in Boston and vendor Duo Security, released software on Tuesday that detects if an Android device is vulnerable and applies a patch. Google, which […]

8. Boston, Mass. A plethora of prestigious research universities, including Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, are located in the Boston metro area, which also includes Cambridge and Quincy. Local innovations have nurtured a robust health-care industry. Northeastern University has a summer program supporting middle-school students in the sciences, and MIT has a program to encourage women to pursue STEM […]

“We live at a fast pace, and film production companies know that with the rise of Netflix and similar home viewing options, they have access to less of consumers’ time,” says Terrence Masson, a former film producer and director of Northeastern University’s Creative Industries program. “So like many industries, they’ve opted to throw their eggs […]

The NAACP’s appeal for federal review of the Florida verdict in the murder case against George Zimmerman reprises the calls for federal statutory remedies for racial homicides, made first in the wake of the Civil War, then in the following decades to control lynching, and finally after the gay-hating murder of Matthew Shepard and the lynching of […]

When asked why he became involved, Peters referenced a recent report authored by Andrew Sum, director of the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University, whom he’s heard speak a number of times on the subject of the importance of employment opportunities for young people. He said Sum’s message has always been consistent — […]

1)     Communicate, communicate, communicate:  The funny thing about communication is that it’s as much about the words you say, as it is about the tone of your voice combined with eye contact, hand gestures, body positioning, and even touch (that proverbial “pat on the back”.) In a paper by Dr. Edward Wertheim of Northeastern University, College […]

Taught by Northeastern University professor Rebecca Riccio, the four-week course consists of a series of videos with titles like “Why Do People Give,” “What’s Relevant to You?” and “The Challenge With Measuring Impact.” In addition, students can watch videos featuring guest speakers, including Warren and Doris Buffett, baseball Hall of Famer Cal Ripken Jr., and ice cream […]

Master 3 Yoga Poses Yoga requires minimal equipment, provides stretching without stressing the joints, and can improve stress levels and posture, says Maureen K. Watkins, PT, DPT, assistant professor in the physical therapy department in the Bouve College of Health Sciences at Northeastern University, Mass. “Individuals new to yoga should begin slowly, ideally with an […]

Much is being made of the shortage of skilled people to fill positions in science, math and engineering, and 13 colleges are coming together to make sure some of those skills are green. In an effort to transform chemistry education in the US, they have signed a “Green Chemistry Commitment” promising to graduate chemistry majors proficient in the […]

Northeastern University helped launched a massive open online course on philanthropy today, in which thousands of students will decide how to donate a large sum of Warren Buffett’s family money. Doris Buffett, the sister of Warren Buffett, is giving away more than $100,000 to the massive open online course, or MOOC, through her organization, the Learning […]