‘No Story Too Small’: Northeastern Launches Digital Archive of Boston Marathon Bombings Six months ago, a thoughtless tragedy threatened the city’s resilience. The Boston Marathon is not just an event, but rather a universal symbol of strength. Roughly 27,000 runners from around the world commit to pushing themselves for 26.2 miles, while 500,000 spectators stand by to cheer them on. The tradition is woven into the fabric […]
India’s Secret to Low-Cost Health Care A renowned Indian heart surgeon is currently building a 2,000-bed, internationally accredited “health city” in the Cayman Islands, a short flight from the U.S. Its services will include tertiary care procedures, such as open-heart surgery, angioplasty, knee or hip replacement, and neurosurgery for about 40% of U.S. prices. Patients will have the option of recuperating for a […]
A Boston of rich and poor, with no middle class According to Northeastern University economist Barry Bluestone, author of the foundation report, incomes have remained stagnant for homeowners, and fallen for renters. So even if prices stayed flat, housing affordability would be eroding. But prices for homes, condominiums, and apartments have been climbing, gradually in some neighborhoods, precipitously in others. The end result has been […]
Boston.com Helping JP restaurant brings more than just a grade to these Northeastern students In January, Il Panino Cafe and Grill in Jamaica Plain was on the brink of failure. Now, thanks to the help of a few Northeastern University students and the owner’s childhood friend, the neighborhood restaurant is on its way to rebounding. “When I talk about what they did for me, I am in tears. They […]
Boston Magazine Our Marathon: Digital Archive At Northeastern Opens on Six-Month Anniversary of Boston Bombing Some of the signs, letters, stuffed animals, and array of hats and shoes that once took over Copley Square following the Boston Marathon attack on April 15, will be on display during an exhibit to honor the victims on the six month anniversary of the bombing, and will supplement a digital archive put together by […]
Metro How to warm up before your workout As winter approaches and the temperature drops, warming up before yoga class, jogging or other forms of exercise becomes more crucial. A common misconception is that warm up and stretching are the same thing. They’re not! Warming up means increasing your heart rate and tissue temperature through large movements of your muscles. Heed this advice […]
Smoking Loophole Still, others are waiting for more conclusive research on e-cigarettes before deciding whether to ban them. When Northeastern University formulated its smoke-free policy, it decided not to ban e-cigarettes, said Terry Fulmer, dean of the Bouve College of Health Sciences and chair of the university’s smoke-free committee. There is not yet evidence that e-cigarette use […]
God Bless America! This is no coincidence — these things are interconnected. “People who are more religious score worse on varying measures of intelligence…. The three psychologists [(Miron Zuckerman and Jordan Silberman of the University of Rochester and Judith Hall of Northeastern University)] have defined intelligence as the “ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend complex […]
Chicago Tribune Fixing schools to fix Chicago Dropouts who don’t end up dead often end up in prison. By age 34, dropouts are about 140 times more likely to be in correctional institutions than their peers with college degrees, according to a 2011 study by Northeastern University in Boston. In Illinois, half of the people in prison in 2011 hadn’t finished high school. Those […]
Crain's New York Business Mixed results for de Blasio’s housing mandate, experts say Still, Boston’s program created more affordable housing as construction was booming but most incomes were stagnant or declining. Boston requires developers to make 15% of units affordable or pay at least $200,000 per unit to finance such housing elsewhere in the city. Barry Bluestone, director of Northeastern University’s Center for Urban and Regional Policy, said […]
Exporting Romneycare “There will be very different experiences in states expanding Medicaid versus not choosing to,” says John Auerbach, director of the Institute on Urban Health Research at Northeastern University who was state public health commissioner between 2007 and 2012. “There will be a bifurcation in the nation. Those with a true combination of shared responsibility and increased access […]
WCVB TV 6 months later: Bombing survivors, heroes reunited Marking six months since the Boston Marathon bombing, WCVB-TV brought survivors, first responders and civilian heroes together at Northeastern University. Many at Northeastern that night were seeing each other for the first time since April 15. The program tells many previously untold stories, and also those of remarkable recoveries. “Boston Strong Reunited” airs on Oct. […]