Obama’s Gun Curbs Face a Slog in Congress By contrast, banning ammunition magazines of more than 10 rounds, as Mr. Obama has proposed, would have a greater impact on so-called mass shootings, where the killing efficiency of a lone gunman would be reduced, according to James Alan Fox, a professor at Northeastern University who studies crime.
University Business Nursing Schools Reinventing Recruitment Or connect with local resources. Bouve College of Health Sciences at Northeastern University in Boston is among six local nursing schools that participate in the Northeast Region VA Nursing Alliance (NERVANA), developed by two nearby hospitals. It hopes to increase recruitment and retention of nurses and clinical faculty and encourage practicing nurses to advance their […]
Colleges must now serve up gluten-free fare A stream of hungry students poured into the dining hall in Northeastern University’s International Village, surveying the all-you-can-eat smorgasbord of everything from burgers to wild mushroom risotto to “foods made without gluten ingredients.” Some loaded their plates with gluten-free creamed green beans because they have doctor’s orders to avoid the gluten protein in wheat, barley, […]
Climate Change Series: About With increasing reports of extreme weather and headlines about 2012 being the warmest year on record, climate change can no longer be ignored. This spring Cognoscenti teams up with the School of Public Policy & Urban Affairs at Northeastern University to bring you a series we’re calling Climate Change. Challenges. Solutions. Each week we will […]
US gun debate: Could Obama’s guns plan work? But background checks would not have stopped most school shootings, in which the gunmen took legally obtained weapons from parents with spotless backgrounds, says Jack Levin, a professor of sociology and criminology at Northeastern University in Boston. Many gunmen have a clean criminal history – they are just having a really bad day, he says. […]
Gun control issue sets off fresh debate over role of children in politics “Certainly there have been children at presidential press photo ops in years past, but usually more in a decorative way, not in a policy way,” said Alan Schroeder, an associate professor of journalism at Northeastern University who is an expert in political stagecraft. “I think what’s interesting here is that the children were a reflection, […]
Climate Change Series: Where Science And Ethics Meet What do we mean when we talk about the imminent threat of rapid and irreversible climate change? And what ethical responsibilities do we — especially those of us in the societies most responsible for the emission of destabilizing greenhouse gases — have in the face of that threat? Harvard chemist James Anderson and Northeastern philosopher […]
Ask Well: Help for the Deskbound One of the problems with office work is that many of us are using chairs that don’t fit our bodies very well or give adequate support to the back, said Jack Dennerlein, a professor at Northeastern’s Bouvé College of Health Sciences in Boston who specializes in ergonomics and safety. If you are experiencing back pain, […]
A rational response to Sandy Hook By contrast, according to James Alan Fox, Northeastern University criminologist, between 1980 and 2010 there were, on average, 20 mass murders a year (defined by the FBI as four or more killings in the same incident) with an average annual death toll of about 100. That’s a mere 0.01% of the average homicide total. If […]
Boston-area colleges bracing for students’ return As thousands of Boston-area college students return to town for the spring semester, university officials are taking preventive measures to avoid further outbreaks of influenza. Some institutions, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northeastern University, Simmons College, Tufts University, and Wellesley College, are offering free flu vaccinations to students. At a few of these schools […]
Forbes The Making of an Entrepreneur A report published by Ernst & Young called Nature or nurture? Decoding the DNA of the entrepreneur, argues that entrepreneurial leaders are made, not born. According to the report, “There is no single entrepreneurship gene. But there are traits and experiences that make it more likely that an individual will choose the path of entrepreneurship […]
Crime Reported To Law Enforcement Rises The overall increase in violent crime should not be surprising or cause for alarm, said Northeastern University criminology professor James Alan Fox. With a steady decline in violent crime over the past two decades, “it is almost inevitable that some bounce back would occur,” he said. The number of murders was down 1.7 percent and […]