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Business professor Ravi Ramamurti discusses Singapore’s economy

Business professor Ravi Ramamurti discusses Singapore’s economyCCTV America’s Michelle Makori interviewed Ravi Ramamurti, a professor at Northeastern University’s Center for Emerging Markets about Singapore’s current economic climate.
Toronto Sun

Don’t shirk vetting process in aiding migrants: Security expert 4

The Toronto Sun spoke with Max Abrahms, an international security expert at Northeastern University in Boston, about the refugee crisis that has gripped the world and become a major issue in Canada’s federal election.
Boston Magazine

Northeastern inks $20.4 million research deal with U.S. Army

Northeastern University has secured an agreement with the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, providing up to $20.4 million in expedited funding for defense research over the next three years. The agreement will make use of Northeastern’s 70,000-square-foot Kostas Research Insti­tute in Burlington, including its NanoOPS, a nanoscale printing system used for flex­ible elec­tronics, med­i­cine, and energy storage.
Boston.com

A New England mom petitions for a nursing room at Gillette Stadium

Kara Sassone, 37, is a lifetime Patriots fan who grew up cheering for her team at Gillette Stadium. But the mom of twin toddlers has yet to bring her whole family there. The stadium, she said, is not properly equipped for families. “We see Tom and Gisele with their kids all the time,” said Sassone, […]
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Weld, Dukakis to press Baker on North, South Station link

Former governors Michael Dukakis and William Weld sat in Governor Charlie Baker’s fourth-floor conference room at the State House on Wednesday, ringed by televisions and white boards, and made their pitch: it is time, they argued, to build a long-sought tunnel that would connect North Station and South Station. The meeting, which ran nearly an […]
WCVB TV

Prosecutors must prove text messages led to suicide

Some legal experts say it may have been a reach for prosecutors to charge Carter with manslaughter. Massachusetts does not have a law against assisted suicide. “Causation is going to be a vital part of this case,” said Daniel Medwed, a Northeastern University law professor. “Can the prosecution prove that she caused him to kill […]

In Europe, issues of emigration, not extermination

Having researched the unsuccessful struggle of the world community to find homes for the hundreds of thousands of Jews trying to flee Hitler’s Europe, I am as horrified as anyone by today’s scenes of refugees crammed onto unsafe boats and huddled in crowded camps. Much in the current tragedy evokes that previous refugee crisis: the […]
Boston.com

Five Boston schools that will help you prepare for the future

The 50 colleges in the new book all have outstanding academics, but, as the book’s author Robert Franek said, they put the “hire” in higher education. The Princeton Review pointed out that many of the schools, like Northeastern, have co-op, internship or study abroad programs that lead to jobs for their students. At Northeastern, for […]
The Dallas Morning News

Q&A: Edward Miller, author of ‘Nut Country: Right-wing Dallas and the Birth of the Southern Strategy’

It’s no secret that the Republican Party’s rise in the South went hand in glove with the rise of the civil rights movement and desegregation. But historian and Northeastern University professor Edward H. Miller argues in his new book, “Nut Country: Right-wing Dallas and the Birth of the Southern Strategy,” that Big D was the […]
NECN

Women’s hockey booming in Boston

The NWHL’s founder and commissioner is former Northeastern University hockey player Dani Rylan. The key difference between the NWHL and CWHL is the Pride’s league is guaranteeing a $10,000 minimum season salary for all players, while the Canadian league just covers travel and expenses for players. The NWHL also schedules its games entirely for Saturdays, […]
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At 80, Yankee magazine is far from slowing down

Yankee’s paper-and-ink strategy might seem pulled from a bygone era, but Northeastern University journalism professor John Wihbey said it could make sense for what he described as a magazine with “a virtual lockdown on a certain niche — vacation, food, and travel for a particular region.” “A decent analog might be vinyl records, which have […]
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City’s middle-income base eroding

The drop comes as the population of the city itself has slowly increased in recent years to about 656,000. The studies did not include data on what exactly is happening to these families, but to Barry Bluestone of Northeastern University the cause is clear. “Working families are just moving farther and farther away from the […]