How a million planning meetings taught me to humanize: Reflecting on the New England Interfaith Student Summit his past Friday, the student leaders of the Northeastern University Interfaith Council (NUIC) welcomed over 100 students and staff from college campuses around New England to the first ever New England Interfaith Student Summit (NEISS). The day made me nostalgic for my last year at the University of Southern California (USC), the year I wrote […]
U.S. News How retirees can prove their income for renting “It’s more of a common situation than you’d think,” says Tim Gagnon, an accounting professor at D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University and a practicing certified public accountant at Coleman & Gagnon. “In the snowbird case, they may want to go rent in Florida for the winter, or maybe they’re going to rent in both […]
CNET News Smart gun makers need tech investors to step up Last month, President Barack Obama urged the departments of Defense, Justice and Homeland Security to study the technology. In addition, 60 percent of Americans surveyed said they’d be willing to buy a “smart,” “personalized” or “childproof” firearm, according to a recent poll conducted by researchers from Johns Hopkins, Harvard and Northeastern University. The Smart Tech […]
Smokers get $4.9m from Philip Morris USA in suit over Marlboro Lights The award in Monday’s decision was a blow to plaintiffs, but the ruling of deceptive marketing adds fuel to several personal-injury lawsuits pending in Massachusetts, said Edward Sweda Jr., senior attorney at the Public Health Advocacy Institute at Northeastern University’s School of Law. “Plaintiffs’ lawyers will try to rely on this and ask it to […]
Kerry to give Northeastern commencement address Secretary of State John F. Kerry will be Northeastern University’s commencement speaker this spring, the school announced Monday. Northeastern President Joseph Aoun said on Twitter that he was “Proud to announce that #Northeastern’s 2016 Commencement speaker is Secretary of State @JohnKerry.” The ceremony is scheduled for May 6 at TD Garden. Northeastern said in a […]
WGBH The deplorable state of solitary confinement in Massachusetts In late January, President Obama announced historic changes in how the federal prison system uses solitary confinement—or “segregation” as it is euphemistically called within Massachusetts’ prison system. He cited research showing that the practice can lead to “devastating, lasting psychological consequences.” Solitary confinement, he said, “doesn’t make us safer. It’s an affront to our common humanity.” The […]
The Hill Lawmakers eye crackdown on illicit trade Nikos Passas, a criminology professor at Northeastern University, called for increased data sharing so countries and businesses could put together otherwise distant pieces. “The private sector does not want to deal with terrorists,” said Passas. “Countries very much want to see each others data … especially if they can have our data.”
Forbes From coral reefs to power grids, this math tool can predict whether a system will collapse So, could other equally complicated systems be boiled down to a single, measureable number? Research from Northeastern University suggests that they could. Prof. Albert-László Barabási and his colleagues Dr. Jianxi Gao and Dr. Baruch Barzel (from Bar-Ilan University) published the paper in the latest issue of Nature. In it, they focus on measuring resilience – […]
Vox Kalamazoo, Michigan, shootings: what we know But not everyone agrees with this definition. Northeastern University criminologist James Alan Fox, for example, defines mass shootings as any shooting in which at least four people were murdered. Under those terms, mass shootings don’t appear to be increasing. Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health call that definition too broad, since it includes […]
Yahoo! US scepticism on blame for Turkey attack exposes growing split But Max Abrahms, professor of political science at Northeastern University and a member of the US Council on Foreign Relations think-tank, said the US would “not back away from the collaboration with the YPG even if attacks in Turkey are attributed to Kurdish terrorists”. “The US really has no choice but to collaborate with the […]
Boston Herald Mayer: Trump bravado bests actual record From the very beginning, the principal selling point for Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy has been that since he has been such a successful businessman, he will be an equally successful president. There is, it should be said, nothing particularly logical about this argument. A person who is successful in one field is by no means […]
The real stigma of Beverly Hills: Why the controversy over Yolonda’s illness matters If you’ve been indulging in the guilty pleasure of watching “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,” you know a major storyline this season is Yolanda Hadid’s ongoing struggle with Lyme disease. From her sickly pallor and face uncharacteristically devoid of makeup to her closet full of pill bottles, this season’s Hadid (formerly Yolanda Foster) is in […]