Metro Behind the degree: Digital media Cynthia Baron directs the Master of Professional Studies in Digital Media program at Northeastern University. Like most graduate degrees of this kind, the Northeastern program only emerged in the past few years. She sat down with Metro to discuss this budding field of study.
Presidential Debate Hosts Face Lengthy Checklist Is the humidity in the hall just right? Are there enough hotel rooms nearby to hold the hordes of campaign staffers and journalists? Will the candidates’ dressing rooms be big enough? Landing a presidential debate requires painstaking adherence to a lengthy checklist, not to mention millions of dollars. Colleges and universities big and small have […]
The New York Law Journal The Time for Legal Educators to Be Bold In one of his most celebrated dissents, Justice Louis D. Brandeis addressed an issue not likely to come before the U.S. Supreme Court again: whether the state of Oklahoma could regulate distributors of ice as a public utility.
US defense chief calls cyberspace battlefront of the future Cyberspace is the battlefield of the future, with attackers already going after banks and other financial institutions and developing the ability to strike U.S. power grids and government systems, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on Friday. William Robertson, an assistant professor at Northeastern University in Boston who testified on cyber security legislation in Congress earlier […]
The Tribune Newsweek ends 80-year print run, goes all-digital In the latest example of how print media has had to adapt to changing reading habits, Newsweek, the venerable US weekly current affairs magazine, will publish its final print edition on December 31 and move to an all-digital format early next year, ending an 80-year run as a print magazine and taking the esteemed publication […]
The Boston Herald Jobs picture brightens in Bay State The Massachusetts jobless rate rose for the third straight month in September to 6.5 percent — up from 6.3 percent in August — even as a separate survey by the Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated the Bay State added 5,100 jobs.
Say Something: A Psychology Major Fights the Stigma of Mental Illness in Kuwait Alaa Alhomaizi, a senior at Northeastern University, has traveled around her home country with her twin sister, Dalal, to raise awareness and promote treatment.
IDEA Proves Why There’s More Going On at Northeastern Than Any Other School Within the last year alone, Northeastern’s student-run venture accelerator IDEA has grown from 56 to 107 companies. Last night, 40 of those companies tabled at Northeastern’s Entrepreneurship Expo (NEXPO), reflecting what faculty advisor Dan Gregory describes as “the most advanced and energetic of our ventures.”
Government: Violent crimes rose 18 percent in 2011 Violent crimes unexpectedly jumped 18 percent last year, the first rise in nearly 20 years, and property crimes rose for first time in a decade. But academic experts said the new government data fall short of signaling a reversal of the long decline in crime. The U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics reported Wednesday that the […]
Aggressive Or Annoying? Some Find Debate Too Rude This is presidential? They bicker, interrupt, talk over the moderator. To some, the Obama-Romney rematch was squirm-inducing. But shedding some dignity probably won’t cost the candidates much. Since both President Barack Obama and challenger Mitt Romney came out swinging, neither was likely to claim a decisive advantage among viewers who thought the debate smacked of […]
Advice To The Next President: National And Homeland Security What are the major national security threats facing the United States? When, where and how should the U.S. use military force? How are national security and homeland security connected? What can the U.S. president do to prepare for a potential disaster?
How Obama aced the comeback So it looks like President Obama got the message. In his second debate with Mitt Romney, the president delivered a comeback performance that will stand as a model for future debaters of how to right a listing ship. Obama was as good in Hempstead as he was bad in Denver. In fact, this may have […]