Pledges for Low-Income Students Yale University, for instance, committed to increasing by 50 percent the number of students it enrolls through QuestBridge, a nonprofit organization that that connects high-achieving low-income students to elite universities. Northeastern University will offer 30 new grants to cover the full demonstrated need for low-income students from Boston public high schools who live in neighborhoods surrounding […]
W.Va. Spill Shows Vulnerability Of Water Supply Killing or sickening large numbers of people through water contamination would not be easy. Someone would need access to a large amount of chemicals and be able to dump them in a sensitive spot, which would likely attract attention, said Stephen Flynn, director of the Center for Resilience Studies at Northeastern University. “It turns out […]
Boston.com Study finds racial disparities in RI traffic stops A new report on police traffic stops in Rhode Island says minorities are more likely than whites to be pulled over in a majority of communities, but less likely to get a ticket. Researchers at Northeastern University reviewed nearly 154,000 traffic stops made by 39 police agencies last year from Jan. 1 to Sept. 30. […]
CNN Money Were the Seahawks’ and Broncos’ ticket bans legal? Other attorneys interviewed by Fortune said the same. “Public accommodation” law, argues Roger Abrams, a law professor at Northeastern University in Boston, might offer one basis for a suit. As he puts it, “public accommodation… refers to a public enterprise that opens its doors to the public but is precluding others from ‘trading,’ that is, spending their money […]
The American Prospect Rebuffing the Zones? But this case is less open-and-shut than scholars like Zick would like. Although the petitioners argue that the law is discriminatory because it allows clinic employees to approach and speak with patients in the zone, although they’re not permitted to discuss anything political. Martha Davis, a professor of law at Northeastern University, says there’s no […]
Erez Aiden Contains Multitudes Some scholars think that ngrams and other data-mining approaches will win acceptance when scholars make use, in a single paper, of both big data and traditional textual analysis—which Aiden and Michel do not do. Ryan Cordell, an assistant professor of English at Northeastern University, calls this “zoomable reading.” In a recent project for Digital Humanities Quarterly, he […]
Bloomberg Businessweek Detroit Art Boosters Offer $330 Million to Aid Bankruptcy Even $500 million may be difficult to sell to creditors as a good deal for them, in light of the appraisal by Christie’s, so celebration among art enthusiasts would be premature, said Michael Bennett, law professor at Northeastern University in Boston specializing in intellectual property and art law. The appraisal pegged 2,800 works at the […]
ABC News 9 Ways to Detox Your Home We carefully watch what goes into our mouths and on our bodies—organic this, petroleum-free that. But when it comes to keeping a healthy home, knowing what to do isn’t so easy. In fact, the average house may contain as many as 400 chemicals, some of them toxic, many untested, according to a 2009 study in […]
A snowball’s chance…in the Arctic A RECORD-BREAKING cold front moved through the country last week, and here’s one surprising consequence of the ultra-low temperatures some regions experienced: It’s nearly impossible under those conditions to make a snowball. In a post on the “physics of a snowball” on Northeastern University’s research blog, J. Murray Gibson, dean of the university’s College of Science, explained that […]
U.S. News Humanities Stepping into the Digital Age Visualizing History The task of making historical subjects appealing to today’s students is far from easy. However, according to technology blog i09, one professor has leveraged modern technology to accomplish just that. Ben Schmidt, an associate professor of history at Northeastern University, used publicly available data sets originally compiled by 19th Century oceanographer Lt. Matthew Fontaine Maury […]
The Olympians next door “The first time I walked into the house, I saw Callen and Gusty playing sports, and they reminded me of when I was a kid with my brothers and sister,” says Coyne, who grew up in Palos Heights, Illinois, and will resume her college career at Northeastern University in the fall. “We were always playing […]
Teen Ink Northeastern University Young Scholars Program Six weeks of lectures, computer classes, college campus, field trips, and lab work in the middle of a summer vacation. Sound like the way most juniors in high school spend their summer? Well, that’s the way twenty-five high school juniors and sophomores (and I) spent summer vacation. The program is called Northeastern University’s Young Scholars […]