Boston Magazine Behind the scenes at Clinton Global Initiative University at Northeastern University This weekend, 1,200 college and university students from around the world came together for the 2017 Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U) meeting, hosted by the Clinton Foundation and Northeastern University.
WGBH Scandal in the BPD evidence room and at the state office of alcohol testing Boston police officer Joseph Nee was recently indicted for stealing money from the department’s evidence room, and just yesterday, a report surfaced detailing that the state Office of Alcohol Testing withheld information in regard to flawed breathalyzer test results, which could affect DUI cases. WGBH’s Morning Edition anchor Joe Mathieu spoke about these developments with […]
PRI As global shipping explodes, it presents a logistical and security challenge “In was in 1992 when 100 million containers moved through all the world’s ports, then in 1998, we went to 200 million,” said Stephen Flynn, founding director of the Global Resilience Institute at Northeastern University in Boston. “Roughly we’re at a little over 600 million today.
How a girl who cannot speak got a unique voice New digital technology created by researchers, including Northeastern professor Rupal Patel, allows people without a voice to sound like themselves for the first time.
Young people are taking on the world’s most pressing challenges At the Clinton Foundation, we are proud to work with and support many young idealists in action, including through the student community of the Clinton Global Initiative University, or CGI U. This weekend, more than 1,000 student leaders from 282 schools and 95 countries gathered at Northeastern University for CGI U’s 10th annual meeting to […]
Axios The value of hospitals’ tax exemptions The AHA did not account for the giant tax break hospitals get on their property, “which is just a joke,” said Craig Garthwaite, a health economist at Northwestern University. “Exclusion of property taxes would be a very major problem,” added Gary Young, a health policy professor at Northeastern University who has studied tax exemptions for […]
Former Surgeon General Murthy on gun violence Former U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy served under President Obama. He left that post this past spring after the Trump administration called on him to resign. Before becoming a surgeon general, Murthy worked at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, and this weekend he joined a panel discussion at the 10th annual Clinton Global Initiative […]
CBS Boston President Clinton, Chelsea Clinton lead day of volunteer work in Boston The 42nd President and his daughter were in Boston Sunday as the Clinton Foundation held their annual Day of Action in the city. President Bill Clinton led hundreds of students from the Clinton Global Initiative in a series of four volunteer beautification projects. Spearheaded by The Clinton Foundation and hosted by Northeastern University, the Day of Action program seeks […]
Bill Clinton urges university students in Boston to be willing to compromise The 10th annual Clinton Global Initiative University wraps up with a day of service in Boston Sunday. Hundreds of college students from all over the world have been taking part at the three-day event, this year at Northeastern University. Former President Clinton, along with his daughter Chelsea and Congressman Joseph Kennedy III, fielded questions at […]
Al Jazeera Reclaiming Mosul’s vibrant culture after ISIL Shakir Mustafa, a professor who grew up in Mosul and now teaches at Northeastern University in the United States, said the burning of libraries, cinemas, theatres and bookstores by ISIL was wielded as a deliberate weapon of wanton destruction.
Toronto Star Far too soon to waste time predicting the next PM: Watt And finally, as argued by Northeastern University Professor Matthew Nisbet, horse race journalism leads to coverage that seems to present a false equivalency in the treatment of meaningful issues and allows more readily for the emergence of so-called “fake news.”
At Northeastern, Bill Clinton talks discrimination, division Former president Bill Clinton took on the politics of discrimination and division in a panel discussion in Boston Friday night, never naming President Trump but pointedly addressing recent controversies that have been associated with the president’s rhetoric and the views of some Trump supporters. Speaking on a panel before a crowd of more than 1,000 […]