ABC News Any Website Just 19 Clicks Away From Any Other, Study Shows Although there are currently said to be more than 14 billion pages on the Internet, a new study shows that navigation between any two of these pages should take you no more than 19 clicks — that’s how interrelated everything is. The study was published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society and conducted by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi of Northeastern University’s Center […]
Times Argus Vermont women earn more than national average More educated men, on the other hand, tend to marry educated women, and these couples’ earnings took less of a beating during the downturn, further widening gap between the highest and lowest incomes, said Andrew Sum, director of Northeastern University’s Center for Labor Market Studies. “At the bottom, women’s share is going up largely because […]
Is “Feminist” A Sexist Word? Whenever I teach an introductory lesson on “gender” in my first-year international affairs and international relations classes, I find myself prefacing my explanation of “feminism” with the familiar “Feminism is not about man-hating. Feminists are concerned with both men and women,” in order to fend off the usual hostile responses from both male and female […]
Police chief son arrested in N.H. But Jack Levin, a criminologist at Northeastern University, said that while the decision to drive Davis home may appear worse in light of the arrest, it may well have failed as a wake-up call. “It doesn’t mean this wouldn’t have happened again,” he said. “Being arrested, even serving a prison sentence, it only works if […]
Scientific American Influential Few Predict Behavior of the Many To demonstrate their technique, Yang-Yu Liu of Northeastern University in Boston and his colleagues looked at the entire human metabolic network and found that concentrations of about 10 percent of the body’s 2,763 metabolites could be used to determine the levels of all the rest. But the method could also be used in social networks […]
Should Mass. raise taxes? Since 1998, the Commonwealth has reduced personal and corporate income tax rates, costing the state $2.5 billion a year — leaving little to pay current bills or deal with $80 billion in past unfunded liabilities, let alone make critical education and transportation investments for our future. Yet with the public demanding reform before revenue, the […]
Gazettes COLLEGE COUNSELOR: Consider College Coop Programs Northeastern University in Boston has one of the leading coop programs in the country. At NEU, a student can elect to take two coops and graduate in four years, or three coops and finish with a degree in five years. NEU has coops in more than 37 states and 60 countries. Students are assigned a […]
Giving students an enterprising path to start on As we continue to look for strategies to jump-start the American economy, here’s one way we can promote innovation and accelerate economic growth over the longer term: give every college student the opportunity to be an entrepreneur. There’s no doubt students would support such an initiative. In a recent national poll commissioned by Northeastern University, […]
The World Why Did Iran Ban Pistachio Exports? The World asked Kamran Dadkhah, an economist at Northeastern University, to explain why Iran’s government would ban the export of pistachios which are among Iran’s top non-oil exports worth an estimated $1.5 billion a year to Iran.
Climate Change Series: Energy Efficiency Energy efficiency used to mean keeping the thermostat below 68 degrees or putting on a sweater. No longer. A generation of study and technological advances have transformed the field — making huge economic and environmental savings possible. In his State of the Union address on Tuesday, President Obama challenged the nation “to cut in half the energy […]
Job-hunters aim to fix e-trail troubles Northeastern University’s career services office offers weekly workshops in both basic and advanced LinkedIn site-building, accommodating 20 students per session. Students are also counseled to change their Facebook privacy and security settings, to ensure that more personal material is hard to access. Even for universities helping students navigate the job search and social media landscapes, […]
Colleges Need to Invest Wisely to Attract & Retain Students Sixty percent of people think the U.S. school system is “poor” or just “fair” and think an online degree is just the same as enrolling full-time on a campus, according to research by Northeastern University. Doesn’t this mean something? Doesn’t it show that universities really need to step it up and actually invest in making their campuses […]