Three strange words that might just save you this Valentine’s Day Gearing up for Valentine’s Day? So are retailers. We spend a fortune trying to get cupid on our side-last year’s sales climbed to nearly $19 billion. And even though the dipped berries, roses, and wining and dining can be nice, two new research studies reveal we just may want to rethink our Valentine’s M.O. It […]
Fusion Why the ‘born this way’ approach to sexual orientation is failing Suzanna Walters, the director of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Northeastern University and the author of the book The Tolerance Trap: How God, Genes, and Good Intentions are Sabotaging Gay Equality, agrees—and believes our culture is at a tipping point, in which the “born this way” argument may even start to do more harm […]
Why isn’t America doing the one thing that would reduce heroin deaths right now? “I’m not even sure, other than stigma, why the cap is even there,” says Leo Beletsky, associate professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University. He argues no other area of medicine faces the restrictions that addiction treatment does. Ironically, physicians can legally prescribe opioids for pain to as many patients as they want—but […]
Philly Voice Avoiding stress: It could save your heart Don’t forget those around you: While it’s never expected for others to raise you up, it is always nice. Give thanks to those around you and you’ll lower your own stress and theirs. “Many people may think of gratitude as a ‘passive’ gesture — you wait for something good, then feel grateful,” said David DeSteno, […]
Bloomberg Businessweek Bloomberg Law Brief: Dish Network is sued for robocalls Bloomberg Law hosts June Grasso and Michael Best discuss a suit against Dish Network for allowing their contractors to violate do-not-call laws by placing millions of robocalls to consumers. The government is seeking more than $24 billion in fines from the company. They spoke with Andrea Matwyshyn (like magician), a professor at Northeastern University and […]
In new sorting of colleges, Dartmouth falls out of an exclusive group “This is an affirmation of our strategy,” said Northeastern President Joseph E. Aoun. He said the private university in Boston has invested heavily in faculty scholarship in health, security and sustainability. “We were happily surprised when we were told that we moved to R1.”
Whistling ‘Dixie’ If anything, even Perot was a latecomer. In the opening pages of Nut Country: Right-Wing Dallas and the Birth of the Southern Strategy (University of Chicago Press), Edward H. Miller takes note of a name that’s largely faded from the public memory: H. L. Hunt, the Texas oilman. Hunt was probably the single richest individual in […]
Nano News Boko Haram ‘burned children alive’ in Nigeria village attack Houses were torched, three female suicide bombers detonated devices, and militants opened fire near Nigeria’s largest northeastern city in Saturday’s attack. “There is a real bias against media coverage of terrorist attacks in Africa, and especially in Nigeria“, Max Abrahms, assistant professor of political science at Northeastern University in Boston, told RT. Last year, Boko […]
U.S. News 4 questions to ask about business school financial aid 3. Are scholarship offerings renewable? Schools that offer scholarships usually allow students to use them for both years of a full-time MBA program, but not always, says Evelyn Tate, director of graduate recruitment and admissions at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University. At D’Amore-McKim, where about 600 students apply for the full-time MBA […]
Computerworld With STEM degrees, it’s not the school that matters Carla Brodley, the dean of computer science at Northeastern University, said that for computer science students, it is all about whether they can pass the technical interview, which may include a coding test, as part of a hiring process. “It’s not clear to me that higher-ranked schools prepare you better,” said Brodley. Northeastern is a […]
BetaBoston Northeastern team helped Match, Athenahealth apps stop leaking passwords The Android app from dating site Match and a physician’s drug search app made by Athenahealth featured a bug that failed to protect password and usernames, a team at Northeastern University has found. Both apps were among hundreds that the Northeastern researchers found sent personal information such as home addresses and names, and in some cases usernames and […]
Boston.com Tonight a student reps Northeastern on Jeopardy! College Championship for first time ever Kate Laubscher, a sophomore at Northeastern University, will represent the school Tuesday night on Jeopardy! College Championship . Laubscher is a dual political science and communications studies major and the first Husky to ever compete on the quiz show. “It was a crazy experience,” Laubscher told Northeastern. “They filmed the whole tournament over two days […]