Exhibit: Famous Writers And The Keys To Their Success A collection of typewriters formerly owned by some of the most iconic figures of the 20th century is on display now at Northeastern University’sGallery 360. The “Celebrity Type” exhibit, which marks the collection’s East Coast debut, features names as famous as Ernest Hemingway and as infamous as Theodore Kaczynski. Collector Steven Soboroff says he has […]
Boston.com Northeastern University raises $63.3 million Northeastern University raised $63.3 million in new donations and pledges since May, the school said Wednesday in a statement. The school’s annual fundraising average has tripled since 2005, according to the statement. Last fiscal year, a total of 13,103 donors made gifts — a record for the university. “Northeastern has a bold vision for the future […]
Xconomy No More Rock Stars: Startups Like Swipely Are Hiring Collaborators This is the story of a student, a mentor, a school, and a startup. Together they highlight the ways in which recruiting and talent development at New England companies have changed over the past decade. Bart Flaherty was an undergrad at Northeastern University. His major was communication studies, but halfway through he started taking computer […]
Boston.com Typewriters of the famous and infamous on display Typewriters that belonged to notable 20th century people are on display in a Northeastern University gallery. Machines once owned by Tennessee Williams, Ernest Hemingway, John Lennon, Jack Kevorkian, and ‘‘Unabomber’’ Theodore Kaczynski are among those in the exhibit. The collection is owned by Steve Soboroff, a California businessman whose daughter is a Northeastern undergraduate. It […]
Typewriters of famous, infamous displayed in Mass. Typewriters that belonged to some of the most famous — and infamous — names of the 20th century are on display in a Northeastern University gallery. Machines once owned by Tennessee Williams, Ernest Hemingway, John Lennon, Jack Kevorkian and “Unabomber” Theodore Kaczynski are among those in the exhibit. The collection is owned by Steve Soboroff, […]
The Cape Cod Times Cape Cod Times is sold Dan Kennedy, a media analyst and assistant professor at Northeastern University’s School of Journalism, said the Cape Cod Times and Standard-Times have good local reputations. “My impression is the Dow Jones local papers are staffed a little bit more fully than GateHouse papers,” Kennedy said. “If I was a reader of one of the (purchased) […]
New York Daily News What is sociopathic disorder? Ariel Castro’s mental state could have been studied to prevent future predator attacks Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/sociopathic-disorder-ariel-castro-condition-explained-article-1.1445248#ixzz2esISTNJZ “Millions of Americans, especially men, have antisocial personality disorders and they don’t kill anyone,” Dr. Jack Levin, a Criminologist and Co-Director of the Brudnick Center on Violence at Northeastern University told the Daily News. “They may lie, physiologically they may cheat … but killing is just not their cup of tea.” Who fits the profile? […]
Ditch Year Three? Rethinking Law School and the Practice of Law The argument that law school should be two years instead of three isn’t new. But the idea got renewed prominence last month, when President Obama said this on a stop at Binghamton University in New York during his college affordability bus tour: “Law schools would probably be wise to think about being two years instead […]
A fresh approach to improving student outcomes More than 950,000 kids are going back to public schools across the Commonwealth. The majority of them will be in school districts that rank among the best in the nation and they will benefit from another year of quality education from some of the most dedicated teachers anywhere. For others, however, particularly in low income […]
Crossing the Lines Dividing the Races But to the literary scholar Carla Kaplan, Josephine — who committed suicide in 1969 — deserves to be remembered not just as the stage mother from hell she is usually depicted as, but as a bold if sometimes awkward pioneer at the frontiers of American thinking about racial identity. “She pushed the boundaries of the […]
Boston startup launches GilaPad to ‘revolutionize digital learning’ Tuatara is working with McGraw Hill Higher Education, and is in the “final stages” of signing another major U.S. publisher, he said. The ultimate mission, according to a news release, is to help users “get the most from the vast amounts of information becoming available every day” and “revolutionize the digital learning experience.” Xicay says […]
Start-ups take on tough customers: lawyers But change may be coming. As of June, there’s a regular Boston Legal Innovation Meetup , founded by Ziegler and geared to attorneys, academics, and entrepreneurs. In May, Suffolk University Law School created a new Institute on Law Practice Technology & Innovation, intended to study how technology is changing the profession, and last month Northeastern University unveiled a […]