Will Pay-For-Performance Pay Off? Right now, health care payment is linked to services. Providers get paid, whether their outcomes are good or not. But, what if we linked pay to quality and efficiency of care? We’re about to find out. That’s because pay-for-performance programs are expanding across the United States health care system, especially under the implementation of the Affordable […]
How To Make Your Extracurriculars Look Best On Your College Applications You’ve probably been told all throughout high school to get involved and participate in clubs and extracurriculars. For many college admissions officers, seeing that you’re really committed to your activities proves that you’re responsible and you can manage your time well. Now that it’s college application season, it’s time to impress admissions officers with your […]
Millennium Campus Conference held at NU Designer Kenneth Cole, USAID Assistant Administrator Nancy Lindborg , Afghan Institute of Learning FounderSakena Yacoobi , and UN Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth Ahmad Alhendawi gave speeches and were honored as role models at the fifth annual Millennium Campus Conference and Global Generation Awards at Northeastern University over the weekend. The conference, which addresses global development, drew about 1,000 student leaders and […]
Campaign seeks small steps for a greener Boston Whether Boston will become the greenest city in America hinges partly on how long Nathan Gottier and Jess Gillane can go meatless on Mondays. Four months ago, the couple signed a pledge — he to unplug electronics at night and she to cook tofu once a week — as part of an ambitious city-led experiment […]
Boston.com Northeastern maps its plans for Columbus Avenue and Roxbury Northeastern University plans to transform its presence on Columbus Avenue with the construction of a new science and engineering building and the rebuilding of the city-owned William E. Carter Playground. Blueprints of the proposed Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering building (ISEB) include a walkway over the railroad tracks that will increase accessibility to Northeastern’s core campus […]
Cell separation startup to have experiments done on space station A Beverly startup working on an improved way to isolate cells for research is planning to do its next experiment more than 200 miles away – straight up. Quad Technologies LLC, a MassChallenge company founded last year, has received a grant worth about $1 million to study the effects of microgravity on the manufacture of […]
A Used Book, a Lost Era It can be a small world, this niche buying of used scholarly books on Amazon. It can also be a sobering one. I am on the lookout for both rare books in my field and copies of my own publications that are being sold way below list price. The former helps me remain current in […]
Boston Community Capital launches a $100K public-interest law fellowship Boston Community Capital has launched a $100,000 one-year fellowship for a recent law school graduate to work for the nonprofit organization doing public interest law work. The first fellow is Emily Rochon, a 2013 graduate of Northeastern University School of Law. At Boston Community Capital, Rochon is working on state and federal public policy issues related to clean energy […]
Here’s How Memes Went Viral — In the 1800s The project expects to launch by the end of the month. When it does, researchers and the public will be able to comb through widely reprinted texts identified by mining 41,829 issues of 132 newspapers from the Library of Congress. While this first stage focuses on texts from before the Civil War, the project eventually […]
Fewer Students Are Majoring In Computer Science, Education And English Based on the steady coverage of how humanities are losing their popularity, tales of woe about art and psychology graduates making minuscule salaries, and the drum beat to push students towards STEM degrees, you might think the liberal arts is dying in favor of technical majors. The truth is a little more complicated. Ben Schmidt at Northeastern University put together the […]
AFP Twitter’s influence mounts as reach grows Researchers like Twitter because almost all tweets are open, and the company provides an easy way to download the data, says Northeastern University computer scientist Alan Mislove, who worked on a study measuring “the pulse of the nation” published in 2010. “You can get a large sample of data that covers a whole country or […]
Parole Is Granted in a 1995 Killing Investigated by a Brooklyn Detective Lawyers say preparing a parole application based on a claim of innocence is risky, because parole boards want to see inmates say they are sorry. A defendant who lacks remorse is considered more likely to commit other crimes. Indeed, a guilty person who pretends to be remorseful is more likely to be released than a […]