Head to the career office before you pick a college John Kelly attributes his success to carefully picking the right college for himself – Northeastern University in Boston – because it had a strong focus on career development.
The Sacramento Bee Did military and law enforcement training help East Area Rapist suspect evade capture? Jack Levin, a professor emeritus at Northeastern University who has studied serial killers, said a military and law enforcement background would make sense with what’s known about the East Area Rapist.
A lynching’s long shadow Earlier in the year, a Northeastern University law student named Kyleen Burke emailed Washington’s cousin Tyrone Higginbottom, who then put her in touch with the rest of the family. She told them that she had done extensive research on their grandfather’s life and death as part of Northeastern’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, which […]
With in-car deliver, Amazon tests whether customers will sacrifice privacy for convenience “Once this sort of behavior becomes normalized, it becomes harder to push back on both as a consumer and as a matter of policy,” said Woodrow Hartzog, a professor of law and computer science at Northeastern University.
Essence Magazine Essence presents 2018’s ‘Woke 100 Women’ After realizing that the erasure of Black women was a societal problem, Northeastern University professor Moya Bailey came up with the term misogynoir in 2010. Like Bailey, it addresses race and gender bias. Through her life’s work, she also explores culture and sexuality.
PolitiFact What the U.S. Supreme Court decision means for the deportation of criminal immigrants The Supreme Court decision also doesn’t mean that violent criminals can walk around on the streets, said Hemanth C. Gundavaram, a professor and co-director of the Immigrant Justice Clinic at Northeastern University School of Law.
Supreme Court hears case involving Brazilian immigrant who lives on Martha’s Vineyard “This is an important issue that will affect quite a few people,” said Rachel Rosenbloom, co-director of the Northeastern University School of Law Immigrant Justice Clinic. “The question here is, does he get to have his day in court or not? The question [also] is: Is he eligible to apply” for special consideration?
Who has more of your personal data than Facebook? Try Google Google also is the biggest enabler of data harvesting, through the world’s two billion active Android mobile devices. Because Google’s Android OS helps companies gather data on us, then Google is also partly to blame when troves of that data are later used improperly, says Woodrow Hartzog, a professor of law and computer science at […]
The Christian Science Monitor Protest art is preserved in libraries, museums The New-York Historical Society and the Museum of the City of New York also sent out a call for posters, which are now on display in current exhibitions. Faculty from Northeastern University in Boston collected thousands of signs from the local march and added them to an online display titled “Art of the March.”
‘Childhood ruined’: Scientologists reportedly behind Neopets While this doesn’t seem that odd considering most businesses have hierarchy structures in place, Patricia Illingworth, a professor at Northeastern University and a Senior Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government’s Carr Center for Human Rights at Harvard, told the publication that “the model is less ethical than it appears.”
Vox The Waco tragedy, explained But all too often, notes Dr. Megan Goodwin, a visiting fellow at Northeastern University specializing in American minority religions, the term “cult” is used to delegitimize and diminish religious practices that don’t fit neatly into the American (Christian, often Protestant) mainstream, and justify violence that would not be used against more established religious groups. She […]
Japan anti-nuke movement seen unscathed after key governor quits “It is likely that the next governor will continue an anti-restart policy,” Daniel Aldrich, a professor at Northeastern University, said in an email. “Anti-nuclear sentiment is still high across the country.”