Ithaca’s plan to open a safe site for Heroin users faces legal hurdles If Mayor Svante Myrick wants the injection site to see the light of day, there are major legal hurdles he’s going to have to surmount, says Leo Beletsky, a professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University in Boston. The facility needs some kind of authorization or exemption from the state of New York, […]
CBS Boston Keller @ large: Presidential race may come down to October debates There’s a long way to go in both the Democratic and Republican presidential races. But if you believe that Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump will be their parties’ nominees, as Northeastern University Professor of Journalism Dan Kennedy does, it’s none too soon to be thinking about what role the media will play in that epic […]
Boston Magazine John Kerry is Northeastern’s 2016 commencement speaker Beacon Hill resident and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will deliver Northeastern University’s 2016 commencement address at TD Garden, where he accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination 12 years earlier. NU President Joseph Auon made the announcement on Twitter Monday evening.
Boston Herald John Kerry to deliver commencement speech at Northeastern U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has been chosen to deliver Northeastern University’s commencement speech. Northeastern President Joseph Aoun said in a statement Tuesday that Kerry, like Northeastern, has deep roots in Massachusetts and is engaged in the global community. Aoun says Kerry is a powerful example for graduates. Kerry, who became secretary of state […]
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 – […]