CNBC Courtroom Drama: Too Many Lawyers, Too Few Jobs Instead of looking at the high octane law firms with well-known names — which are in the process of re-examining their staffs — many graduates will have to think corporate and even small time, said Jeremy Paul, dean of Northeastern University School of Law. “The plum legal jobs in the future will be in big […]
MIT Sloan falls out of top 10 undergraduate biz school listing The Bloomberg Businessweek rankingsare based on a combination of student satisfaction, post-graduation outcomes, and academic quality. Roughly 86,000 graduating seniors at more than 140 universities receive a 50-question survey focused on a range of topics. … Bentley University ranked 20th, up from 29th last year, while Northeastern Universityranked 25th, up from 27th in 2012.
The EvoLLLution AUDIO | Edupreneur-Institution Relationships Will Change Higher Education The following interview is with Peter Stokes, executive director of postsecondary innovation at Northeastern University. During our last interview, Stokes mentioned that the higher education industry has yet to see a truly disruptive innovation. In this interview, Stokes explains the difference between disruptive and other innovations in a little more detail, and shares his thoughts on […]
The Lowell Sun Panel to study $1B life-sciences plan Halfway through the state’s $1 billion experiment with investing in the state’s life-sciences industry, a report due out next week will examine the effectiveness of a 2008 law in attracting investment and creating jobs. Gov. Deval Patrick, who signed the 10-year law in 2008, is scheduled to be on hand Tuesday for the Boston Foundation’s […]
New Zealand Listener The students who trained an eagle to snatch a kid What propels exercises such as Golden Eagle Snatches Kid to circulate at such speed? Ryan Cordell, a lecturer at Northeastern University specializing in 19th-century periodical literature, analyses how newspapers and other mass media of the time disseminated news, and perhaps unsurprisingly, the criteria for what makes a story spread haven’t changed much. “It needs to […]
InfoWorld The hot security skills of 2013 It will always be extremely important to be able to communicate with diverse audiences, says Young. Not only must CSOs make complex security issues understandable to the enterprise at large, they must also make it clear how important security risk, particularly digital risk management, is to the executive suite’s agenda. David Luzzi, executive director of […]
The Epoch Times Researcher Calls for More Objective Studies to Support Gun Legislation Gun store owners and manufacturers didn’t like the implications when in 1995, Glenn L. Pierce of Northeastern University, using Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) data, found that only one percent of gun dealers were responsible for the sale of the majority of the guns seized at crime scenes, 57 percent. They said […]
The Christian Science Monitor Quick action helped UCF avert gun massacre. But it was close. While incidents like the one at UCF – particularly in the context of other recent shootings – can lead to talk of an epidemic, it’s also important to keep the threat level in perspective, says Jack Levin, a criminology professor at Northeastern University who has done research on mass killers. “The college campus is still the safest […]
Compliance Week Northeastern University Names VP, Enterprise Risk Management Northeastern University has appointed Deloris Pettis to the newly created position of vice president of enterprise risk management. In her new role, Pettis will use existing resources to develop an enterprise-wide risk reporting and monitoring system. Pettis has experience in transforming enterprise-wide risk management infrastructures in both the business and higher education sectors. Pettis spent […]
Bloomberg Businessweek Bloomberg Businessweek: At Northeastern, New Ventures Get a Student Assist The university is in its fourth year of hosting Idea, a student-led venture accelerator that provides resources to students and alumni looking to found startups. In 2009 the school was seeking new ways to boost entrepreneurial activity on campus when six seniors proposed the concept for Idea. The group received funding from the university and […]
Dayton Daily News UD weighs party crackdown Celebratory riots have plagued college campuses over the last decade, especially on St. Patrick’s Day or following sporting events, said Jack Levin, professor of sociology and criminology at the Brudnick Center on Violence and Conflict at Northeastern University. “Rioting has for years been a fad on college campuses around the country and has often been […]
Vineyard Gazette Answer to Edgartown Traffic Woes Could Come from City Students The worst of Edgartown’s traffic problems is still months away, but a group of Northeastern University students are spending the off-season looking for a solution. For the second year in a row, transportation students participating in professor Daniel Dulaski’s senior capstone project are facing off against a worthy opponent: Edgartown’s seasonally-congested streets and traffic patterns. […]