Science Friday How can we discover better antibiotics? But the search for other antibiotic sources is underway. For instance, Kim Lewis, the director of the Antimicrobial Discovery Center at Northeastern University, and his colleagues created a device that allows soil bacteria to be cultured in their natural habitat, thus opening a new pool of possible antibiotics.
Newsday ‘Chaos’ gets a workout in the new age of Donald Trump Bert Spector, a business professor at Northeastern University, cited “chaos” in a commentary published this week, stating that the president was never really a CEO before. “That is, he didn’t run a major public corporation with shareholders and a board of directors that could hold him to account,” Spector wrote. “Instead he was the head […]
Bay State Banner Body camera advocate pushing for immediate implementation in Boston During a hearing at the Mattapan Library in January, Evans outlined a case for collecting more data on the cameras before they’re fully implemented. The researchers hired to analyze the data, Jack McDevitt and Anthony Braga of Northeastern University, told reporters there’s not yet enough data on use of force.
WGBH James Comey is back – and this time the FBI is taking aim at Trump’s inner circle FBI Director James Comey, who did more to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential campaign than anyone other than Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, is back. Investigations are under way into the Trump inner circle’s ties to Russia — and leaks from those investigations are one of several factors in the chaos that has […]
Why it’s so hard to investigate the recent wave of anti-Semitic incidents “They’re extremely difficult to investigate, again, because they are perpetrated from a distance. The offender tends to remain anonymous, and hate crimes are difficult to identify in the first place,” said Jack Levin, a hate crimes expert and co-director of the Brudnick Center on Violence and Conflict at Northeastern University.
BizEd Magazine Business schools deliver lifelong education Another reason applies specifically to business students, says Hugh Courtney, dean of the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. “Almost by definition, any student who received an MBA at any time in history didn’t get the optimal degree for himself or herself,” he says. Rather, students undoubtedly took courses that weren’t […]
Moulton, McGovern explore Cuba for Mass. business opportunities On parts of the trip, the Bay State politicians were accompanied by representatives of Northeastern University, Harvard Medical School, UMass Medical School, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and the Massachusetts Biotech Council. The goal of the trip, McGovern and Moulton said, was to connect American institutions with their Cuban counterparts and encourage exchanges that had been barred […]
MIT Technology Review How to keep up—and even get ahead—when technology outpaces us. Today, at a time when what we’ve created is evolving more rapidly than ever and the Internet allows strangers almost anywhere to connect with each other instantly, Ito and Howe argue that a new mind-set is required to successfully navigate the world. “Our technologies have outpaced our ability, as a society, to understand them,” they […]
Forbes Record number of students going abroad despite anti-global rhetoric in recent elections Ultimately, universities are judged by how employable their graduates are, and it is clear that they consider international programs to be beneficial. According to Open Doors 2016, an annual report on international education trends released by the Institute of International Education (IIE), universities plan on increasing their global connections and partnerships. They are also adding […]
Trump wasn’t a real CEO. No wonder his White House is disorganized. It’s easy to understand the appeal of a president as CEO. The U.S. president is indisputably the chief executive of a massive, complex, global structure known as the federal government. And if the performance of our national economy is vital to the well-being of us all, why not believe that Trump’s experience running a large […]
This exhibit is going to blow up your Instagram feed — and rewrite art history Stressed out and suffering from hallucinations, Kusama returned to Japan in 1973 and voluntarily checked herself into a mental institution, where she still resides. After she left, the New York art scene quickly forgot about her, and art historians later followed suit, says Gloria Sutton, an art history professor at Northeastern University. “I think there […]
Boston Herald Hundreds protest ‘attack on science’ “The attack on science, particularly climate science, poses an existential threat to human civilization as we know it,” said Daniel Faber, director of the Northeastern Environmental Justice Research Collaborative. “Denying science is a declaration of war on current and future generations and it is unacceptable and we are here to stand up and fight for […]