EdSurge How boundaries between colleges and companies will continue to blur Some employers are starting to focus more energy on offering educational benefits to their employees, while colleges are struggling to respond to the growing interest by students in helping them land a job. A new center at Northeastern University sits at the intersection of these two areas—called the Center for the Future of Higher Education […]
The Daily Beast Can Congress snuff out synthetic marijuana? “The emergence of synthetic drugs… changes the game in a lot of way,” said Leo Beletsky, a professor at Northeastern University who specializes in drug policy. “Some of the most obvious ways is that because people don’t have a good handle on what it is that they’re taking it makes the likelihood that they’ll overdose […]
AdWeek Northeastern grad follows Nicholas Kristof trip with separate New York Times summer fellowship Northeastern University is today celebrating the summer accomplishments of College of Arts, Media and Design 2017 graduate Aneri Pattani. As this year’s winner of New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristoff’s annual “Win a Trip” contest (the essay she submitted related her experience of interviewing residents in unincorporated areas of Texas near the Mexico border), she […]
Scientists map the receptor that makes weed work “People have been using cannabis for a variety of therapeutic indications for centuries,” says Alexandros Makriyannis, director of Northeastern University’s Center for Drug Discovery, and a co-author of this new research, published in Nature. In the 1960s, scientists finally started to figure that out as well. And by the 1980s, Eli Lilly had developed a […]
Esquire The fascinating legacy of the ‘Yankees Suck’ t-shirt There are certain two word phrases that seem destined for each other. Where their coupling achieves a sort of simple, evocative poetry. Summer’s breeze; good dog; sand castle; cold beer, and perhaps most effectively, in New England vernacular anyway: Yankees suck. That’s where Ray LeMoine and friends come in. Around 1999, the Northeastern University student […]
WCVB TV Boston man contracts rare disease tied to rodents Last year, 5 Investigates and Northeastern University School of Journalism analyzed thousands of rodent complaints made to the city and discovered 2016 had the most complaints of any year on record.
How summer jobs programs impact young people long after the seasons change A new study out of Northeastern University finds that summer jobs programs for youth improve social skills and reduce violent crime. The study looked at participants in Boston’s summer jobs program and compared their outcome with a control group. The results showed a 35 percent reduction in violent crimes.
WGBH The 2017 New England Muzzle Awards: Spotlighting 10 who diminish free speech It seems somehow appropriate that on this, the 20th anniversary of the Muzzle Awards, assaults on freedom of expression are taking a technological turn. But there are still plenty of instances of old-fashioned suppression — such as a publicly funded charter school in Malden whose ban on hair extensions affects black female students almost exclusively; […]
Post-Crescent Criminal justice experts: Brendan Dassey case has wide-reaching, national impact “It has really brought into the national spotlight the hazards of interrogating juveniles,” said Daniel Medwed, a professor of law and criminal justice at Northeastern University in Boston. “It’s a good thing that people are talking about these issues.”