University-run boot camps offer students marketable skills — but not course credit Level, a venture that offers students courses in data analytics, has a motto of sorts. It’s written in large letters acrossthe program’s website: “Real skills. Real experience. Two months.” The motto sounds a lot like the boot-camp style of education offered by companies like General Assembly. But Level, a product of Northeastern University, is neither […]
Boston Herald Democratic debate likely to be ‘Sanders & Clinton Show’ “It’s become a little bit of a mini-series, and if you watched the first couple Republican debates, the next installment is the Democrats,” Alan Schroeder, a Northeastern University debate expert, said of tonight’s five-person CNN showdown headlined by Clinton and Sanders. “It probably mostly will be the Sanders and Clinton Show, but some of that […]
Police say they want to aid, not arrest, addicts Leo Beletsky, a professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University, called the police involvement “a positive development” but cautioned that officers need the tools to fulfill this role effectively. Police academy training does not address the issue, and officers’ success at getting someone into treatment doesn’t win them a promotion, he noted. “Their […]
Health: Schoolchildren get into stand-up act Early research into sitting too much confirmed that being sedentary is bad for the body. Now, scientists are analyzing the best ways to break up the sitting habit, said Dinesh John, an assistant professor in the Health Sciences Department at Northeastern University in Boston. It’s not yet be shown how much people should stand or […]
Democratic primary debates vs. Republican primary debates After two history-making Republican debates, what can we expect from the Democrats? Five contenders–Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Martin O’Malley, Lincoln Chafee, and Jim Webb–will take the stage on Tuesday in a match that is likely to feel very different from the Republican extravaganzas of August and September. Some key points of comparison: VIEWERSHIP. Each of […]
Yahoo! A new era in women’s hockey After graduating with a degree in broadcast journalism from Metropolitan State University in St. Paul, Minn., in 2010, Dani Rylan began studying for a master’s in sports leadership at Northeastern University. While there, she skated on the Huskies hockey team that won the 2012 Beanpot Tournament. Rylan, whose father worked in marketing for the Tampa […]
Haggen struggles after trying to digest Albertsons stores “It’s not easy to get these things right,” said John Kwoka, an economics professor at Northeastern University, who studies such efforts. “And it’s a bigger stretch when you’re trying to turn a company into something much larger than it was before. Here it failed spectacularly.” The FTC defends its approval of the Haggen deal, saying […]
Boston’s three-deckers remain a mainstay, but bigger buildings are on the rise Dillon said few new three-deckers are expected to be built in the future, though the city encourages people to live in existing ones by by offering home repair and downpayment assistance programs. “In the last 50 years, none of that [triple-decker] housing has been built. Instead, it has been high-rise apartments, especially luxury ones,” said […]
School rampage shootings: How to reduce the carnage In the aftermath of the massacre on the campus of Umpqua Community College, Americans are again debating the effectiveness of crime-fighting measures such as improved background checks and gun control laws. In reality, for the sake of reducing mass shootings, background checks will hardly make a difference. Some school rampage shooters secure guns from their […]
Should attacking police officers become a hate crime? A Minnesota city says yes. “Hate crimes against black Americans have had a long history in this country — we didn’t just see a rise of hate offenses against black Americans over a period of a month or two,” Northeastern University criminologist Jack Levin told U.S. News earlier this year. “Hopefully the ambushing of police officers will turn out to be a […]
Xconomy Renaissance futurism: Liberal arts for the 21st century There is a lot of debate about whether college is worth the investment, and many discount the value of a liberal arts degree at any price. While professional or pre-professional degrees, such as business or pre-law, often lead to high starting salaries, a January 2014 analysis of census data reports that “at peak earnings ages (56-60 […]
‘Inside Out’ art project puts murals of residents’ faces onto public buildings Alejandra Durban, 19, a junior at Northeastern University, read about the project in Roxbury and attended the TED talk by JR. “It invites everyone to participate in it. It’s not something where you are outside of the project,” Durban said. “It has so many things tying it to the community.” For C.D. Storm, the mural […]