Glamour Magazine 5 Ways Creating Partnerships Can Help You Make an Impact in the World Sure, you have the power to get your message out there–but what if it could be even stronger and more impactful? It can, and as I learned at this year’s annual Millennium Campus Conference, it’s not hard and it makes a huge difference.
Times Union Probing violence and prejudice Criminologist Nicole Rafter has tallied 77 genocides that occurred around the world during the 20th century, many of them overlooked or forgotten, and she argues the number would be higher if a rigid legal definition was expanded.
Jagran Post Doubts over actual cause of dyslexia New research has argued that dyslexia may result from impairment of a different linguistic system than previously thought. Speech perception engages at least two linguistic systems: the phonetic system, which extracts discrete sound units from acoustic input, and the phonological system, which combines these units to form individual words. Previously, researchers generally believed that dyslexia […]
The Boston Herald Romney to ‘loom large’ in Senate debate Tonight’s first televised debate in the Bay State’s U.S. Senate race may be between U.S. Sen. Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren — but GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney could be the one who steals the show, according to pundits and party operatives. “Mitt Romney is going to be looming large,” said Alan Schroeder, a Northeastern […]
Learning About Human Connection From A Robotic Friend Meet Nexi. How do you feel about Nexi? Would you loan Nexi money? It turns out, scientists can change that perception by making subtle cues to Nexi’s robotic face. A study from researchers at Northeastern University (to be published in the journal Psychological Science) discovered that there are a distinct set of cues–including touching the […]
Boston.com Northeastern AD named to NCAA men’s basketball committee Northeastern University’s athletics director, Peter Roby, has been named to the NCAA Division I men’s basketball committee, the NCAA announced Wednesday.
Healthcare IT News Q&A: Northeastern’s Timothy Bickmore on the clinical future of relational agents Timothy Bickmore, associate professor at Northeastern University’s College of Computer and Information Science, has been working for the past decade in the area of “relational agents.” He says these artificially intelligent avatars are poised for a promising future in healthcare.
Engadget Nexi robot helps Northeastern University track effects of shifty body language (video) MIT’s Nexi robot has been teaching us about social interaction for years, and has even done a stint with the US Navy. Its latest role, however, involved studying those moments when society falls apart. Northeastern University researchers made Nexi the key ingredient of an experiment where subjects were asked to play a Prisoner’s Dilemma-style game […]
Bloomberg Businessweek B-School Twitter Roundup This week’s Twitter roundup of happenings in the business school world includes a new name for Northeastern University’s business school, an MBA student being mentored by New York City’s Michael Bloomberg, and a business school that shut down last week after a bomb threat on campus.
Mass. foreclosures drop 17% from 2011 Fewer foreclosures were started and completed in July as the Massachusetts housing market and overall economy continued to slowly improve, according to data released Monday. Alan Clayton-Matthews, an economist at Northeastern University, said the newest foreclosure numbers are in line with other recent statistics. “The economy has been fairly slowly but steadily improving. You would […]
New cost-control law expands role of physician assistants A little-known provision of the state’s new health care cost-control law expands the role of physician assistants by casting them in the role of primary care providers.
Telegram Dukakis in Worcester, says US should end Electoral College Former Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis, Democratic presidential nominee in 1988, believes abolition of the Electoral College and direct election of the president and vice president by popular vote would do away with the “disproportionate influence” of six to nine swing states that have determined recent presidential contests.