American Way Jackie Robinson: American Hero The real Jackie Robinson was far from the man who had agreed to enter baseball so delicately with the mission to not offend anyone, so his outspokenness on major civil-rights issues was not a surprise. “He had the success; he had the position,” says Dan Lebowitz, executive director of the Center for the Study of […]
The Return of the Sequester Wary of the cuts on the horizon, agencies appear to already be slowing funding. On campus, researchers are seeing a slowdown in federal grant-making and disbursement, said Tim Leshan, vice president for government relations at Northeastern University and president of the Science Coalition, an association of research universities advocating for federal scientific research. The Institute […]
It’s a stretch to call Patrick’s plan redistribution IN HIS Jan. 24 Op-ed column “Invest, but don’t play Robin Hood,” Edward Glaeser criticizes Governor Patrick’s tax proposal as an inappropriate effort to use the state tax system for redistributive purposes. Reasonable people can debate whether state taxes are an appropriate means of pursuing redistribution of wealth. But labeling Patrick’s proposal as redistribution flies […]
Law Schools’ Applications Fall as Costs Rise and Jobs Are Cut In the legal academy, there has been discussion about how to make training less costly and more relevant, with special emphasis on the last year of law school. A number of schools, including elite ones like Stanford, have increased their attention to clinics, where students get hands-on training. Northeastern Law School in Boston, which has […]
Latent TB germs can hide in marrow cells, study says Kim Lewis, director of the Antimicrobial Discovery Center at Northeastern University, said the study raised some interesting questions for further research. “It is an enormous problem indeed. Where exactly those pathogens hide within the body is not exactly clear, and this study tries to address this question,” Lewis said.
Crashes Raise Concerns At Winter X Games “Should we be asking these questions? We absolutely should be,” said Dan Lebowitz, the executive director of Sport in Society at Northeastern University, which examines the role of sports to promote healthy development and social responsibility. The people performing these superhuman feats “really are just human,” he said. “How do we maintain safety in that […]
Climate Change Series: Corporate Responsibility Historically, corporations have tended to view global climate change and greenhouse gas emissions as environmental issues that don’t affect their bottom line, and therefore don’t affect how they do business. That’s changing as business leaders become increasingly aware of the ways in which climate change threatens the profitability and value of their companies — and […]
Who is Mo Cowan? After graduating from Duke University in North Carolina, Cowan earned a law degree from Northeastern University in Massachusetts. He remained in Boston after law school. There, he emerged as a popular mentor for young black professionals and was often tapped to help diversify the city’s institutions (he once helped Mitt Romney identify lawyers of color […]
Governor Picks Former Aide to Succeed Kerry in Senate Mr. Cowan, a 43-year-old North Carolina native and Duke University graduate, came to Boston to attend Northeastern University School of Law and stayed. He stepped down as Mr. Patrick’s chief of staff two months ago, saying he planned to return to the private sector. He said he agreed to the governor’s request that he take […]
Not Rushing Into MOOCs Watching and waiting — and strategizing — can be a difficult choice to make given the “herd mentality” that has developed around MOOCS, according to Peter Stokes, executive director of postsecondary innovation in the College of Professional Studies at Northeastern University. Still, he thinks there’s value in the approach. “It’s certainly reasonable for an institution […]
The Phoenix A mobile farmers’ market revs up The USDA defines a “food desert” as any location without a grocery store within a one-mile radius. When Josh Trautwein goes to work at the MGH Charlestown HealthCare Center, he sees the effects of Boston’s food deserts firsthand. “People are resigned to shopping at corner stores, which are usually more expensive and have a narrower […]
2 Science Projects to Receive Award of 1 Billion Euros The decision meant disappointment for some projects, including FuturICT, which had aimed at creating “a planetary scale computer” for helping predict events like natural disasters. Some of the reasoning used to reject FuturICT was “quite crazy,” and the project’s leaders should be “pretty shocked,” Alex Vespignani, a professor at Northeastern University in Boston who is […]