Deseret News Teens and anxiety: Utah faces a growing national crisis Once online, today’s “rules for social engagement” have changed, in that “it’s OK to say almost anything to anybody at this point and call it free speech, or call it a joke,” says Lisa Feldman Barrett, University Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University, with appointments at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital.
ICE on ice? Move to abolish ICE, at center of storm in immigration battle, has a long way to go Hemanth Gundavaram, co-director of our Immigrant Justice Clinic at Northeastern University in Boston, disagrees. He says the cost of ICE far outweighs the threat from immigrants. ICE, he says, has become a tool for President Donald Trump to “implement his racist and xenophobic” immigration policies.
No need to call dad: Northeastern students can use Alexa to answer school-related questions Plans are underway to let Northeastern University students this fall get immediate answers to pressing questions about their enrollment status and reminders about important school tasks — all through a customized application loaded onto an Amazon Echo Dot.
Check out these mind-boggling models of complex networks Created by a team of researchers from the Barabási Lab at Northeastern University and IBM’s Visual AI Lab, WonderNet transforms databases into data sculptures, all of which take different forms based on the underlying structure of the data.
Alexa, when’s my next class? This university is giving out Amazon Echo Dots Starting this fall, some students at Northeastern University in Boston will be given the option of getting an Echo Dot smart speaker linked to their university accounts. They’ll be able to ask Amazon’s Alexa what time their classes are, how much money’s left on their food card and even how much they owe the bursar’s […]
Nonprofit Quarterly Can Nonprofit Journalism Fill the Gap Left by Faltering Local Media? As a new report, Funding the News, by Matthew Nisbet and his colleagues—co-published by Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy and the School of Journalism at Northeastern University—makes clear, while nonprofit journalism is rising, commercial journalism is declining at a precipitous rate.
Inside Philanthropy Here’s How Magazines Like Harper’s and Mother Jones Stay Afloat The report, “Funding the News,” by the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy and Northeastern University, focuses mainly on the largest flows of foundation funding for media, documenting support to public radio and national news nonprofits like ProPublica. But it also looks at funding for 25 magazines and journals over a six-year period, […]
Fortune Alexa Goes to College: Northeastern University Giving Echo Dots to Students Northeastern University will offer its students this fall the option of receiving an Echo Dot customized to handle basic questions about student life at the Boston-based school.
Donations of $4,500 overdose antidote were PR gold for drug maker — but some kits were close to expiring “Is the practice of giving out soon-to-be expired drugs ethical? The answer is clearly no,” said Leo Beletsky, an associate professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University in Boston. “People who receive medication [from a charity program] deserve the same quality as anybody else. There should be the same standards for products sold […]
Teen Vogue This Ramadan “Believers Bail Out” Wants Muslims to Address Prison Abolition In this op-ed, Liz Bucar, an associate professor of religion at Northeastern University, and author and writer Amanda Randone explain how Believers Bail Out, a Muslim-run grassroots organization, is helping raise awareness about incarceration during Ramadan.
On June 12, 2016, 49 people were killed and 53 more were wounded in a shooting at Pulse, a nightclub in Orlando, Fla. “You can’t get people excited about gun control because there’s a domestic homicide, an isolated case somewhere in America,” said James Alan Fox, a professor of criminal justice at Northeastern University. “You can’t even get them excited because there are 45 of them a day.”
Worcester Telegram As I See It: Parenting in the Age of School Shootings I’d just lazily plopped myself onto the family room sofa and was scrolling through email on my phone. CNN was playing in the background as commentators issued observations about whatever newsy thing the president had done or said in the past few hours. That’s when I saw it. The email from my son’s high school […]