Michael Dukakis Fast Facts November 8, 1988 – Loses the election to Bush by roughly seven million votes, earning 111 electoral votes in the Electoral College to Bush’s 426. 1991-present – Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Northeastern University in Boston and visiting professor at the Luskin School of Public Affairs at UCLA. 2000 – Publishes “How to Get Into Politics and Why: A Reader,” […]
USA Today: Campus View: Rethinking higher ed reform through co-ops At Northeastern University, the second-oldest co-op school, students graduate with up to 18 months of internship experience. It joins roughly 100 other U.S colleges offering some structure of co-op. The model has been around for over 100 years and while not all institutions offer the initiative, students can and should consider adopting co-op into their […]
Puget Sound Business Journal Seattle is a hub of big data and cloud innovation, say TechNW panelists If there was one major takeaway from Wednesday’s Washington Technology Industry Association TechNW conference at Northeastern University in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood, it was that the Pacific Northwest is a hub of innovation for cloud and big data companies large and small.
Boston Herald Five keys to the race Davis’ strength lay in community policing and prevention in crime hot spots, said Northeastern University criminologist Jack Levin. “The new commissioner has to do the same thing.” Former Boston cop Tom Nolan said he expects “movement” behind internal minority contenders: “If you want to change the promotions system, that’s a pretty tall order. You’re going […]
Mentally ill doesn’t mean murderer: Column A new Gallup poll taken after last week’s tragedy at the Washington Navy Yard reveals that Americans fault the mental health system for mass shootings, even more than inadequate gun laws. Apparently, according to Joe Public, guns don’t kill, psychotic people do. The NRA’s Wayne LaPierre echoed these sentiments on Sunday: “If we leave these homicidal maniacs on the street […]
Fresh Truck brings affordable produce to low-income areas It’s pretty quiet at 7 a.m. as Dan Clarke steers a white painted school bus through the back roads of Jamaica Plain. Emptied of the seats that once transported children, the bus has been retrofitted with a row of baskets mounted on one side and a long shelf on the other. It is now Fresh […]
Top Undergrad College Entrepreneurship Programs: Princeton Review 2013-14 Ranking It seems like everyone’s watching college students for what business they’re going to start next. The founders of Google met at Stanford University, as did the founders of Snapchat. Facebook was built on the campus of Harvard University. The name of reddit came to mind when one of the founders was sitting in the library at the University of Virginia. Even Time magazine has […]
After Navy Yard attack, D.C. confronts sudden spike in its homicide statistics Criminologist James Alan Fox, of Northeastern University in Boston, said crime statistics are used “as a barometer of safety and of police performance” and said mass shootings should not be left out. Police in Blacksburg, Va., list zero homicides for 2007, the year a gunman fatally shot 32 students, faculty and staff members on the campus of […]
A cyclist’s mecca, with lessons for Boston It was enough to draw stares from four visiting Northeastern University civil engineering students who gawked from a grassy shoulder, taking photos on their iPads of this gleaming vision from a bicyclist’s Oz. “This,” howled Andrew Brunn, a burly 22-year-old engineering student grinning like a kid at Disneyland, “is totally crazy!” To the average American, […]
Where social media and spinning meet When first-time entrepreneur Jessica Bashelor, 25, decided to open her own indoor cycling studio in South Boston this summer, her strategy included a social media plan to create buzz and a “gym culture” that attracted millennials. “Opening a gym isn’t just about laying out different pieces of equipment, but also creating a space that helps […]
Education for a New Generation The Lang Youth commit to Saturday and summer classes at NewYork-Presbyterian. The hands-on courses are taught by Columbia University faculty and students and include clinical rotations and internships. Curriculum covers the human body, diseases and public health. The program, run by the hospital’s Ambulatory Care Network, includes college preparation and help with the college-application process. […]
Discovery News Giving Speechless People a Unique Voice Perhaps the two most famous speechless individuals are physicist Stephen Hawking and the late Robert Ebert, a film critic. To communicate with other individuals, both men used computers that generated synthesized voices, which sounded tinny, stilted and unnatural. Now new technology could give speechless people a natural voice as unique to them as voices are […]