Can Smartphone Apps Change Our Behavior? The smartphone is a beautiful thing. Part phone, part Web browser, part GPS, part personal organizer — we have begun to expect our phones to do just about anything to help make our lives easier.
National Jurist Co-op Program Honored in Massachusetts Co-op law school programs, after the Massachusetts Bar Association recognized Northeastern University School of Law’s Cooperative Legal Education Program as an “enviable” model. After students’ first year of school, students in the program alternat quarters between academic study and with an employer. On average, 40 percent of students at post-graduate positions with their former co-op […]
Northeastern’s Mike Behan uses fashion to help Kenyan mothers Mike Behan spends six months out of the year in Njabini, Kenya. But it’s no safari vacation. Behan, 21, is the cofounder and CEO of Njabini Apparel, a nonprofit company selling handcrafted accessories made by landless and handicapped mothers in the Kenyan settlement.
Forbes The United States Is Not Greece Peter Schiff in The Real Crash and others see the U.S. as having the same problems as Greece and that what we see now in Greece is just a prelude to much larger problems in the United States. This is a false analogy that misrepresents the effects of large deficits as well as the specific problems that Greece faces.
A fiscal forecast for Massachusetts If 40 pages of statistics, tables, graphs, and economic analysis could generate any buzz at all, the state’s release of its report on long-term fiscal policy would have garnered front-page headlines. Indeed, it should have, for this may be the first time ever a governor has asked for a five-year budget plan anticipating future revenues […]
A Winning School: Lessons from a Highly Successful Massachusetts High School One of Massachusetts’ public high schools has a 97 percent graduation rate and a dropout rate of less than .02 percent (3 out of 1,323 students). It ranks among the highest percentage of students scoring advanced or proficient in the 2011 MCAS assessments (97% in Language Skills; 85% in Math; and 91% in Science.) The school valedictorian […]
38 Studios’ Copernicus could be a losing battle Veteran video game designer Aubrey Hodges says the best work he ever did was for 38 Studios LLC’s Project Copernicus, Curt Schilling’s ambitious effort to develop the next blockbuster game. “It looked stunning. It sounded great. That’s the heartbreak,” said Hodges, a former audio director at 38 Studios.
Design News Sensor-Laden T-Shirt Sweats Workout Details A team of students at Northeastern University in Boston has combined medical and Web-based technologies to create an intelligent T-shirt that can dynamically track a person’s workout.
ABC News Etan Patz Mystery: 99 Percent of Abductors Never Kill Victims Thirty-three years after the disappearance of Etan Patz, the only suspect ever arrested is as much an enigma as the missing child case that has baffled investigators for decades.
PCWorld This DIY Robot Can Feed You, Be Controlled With Just a Look Six electrical- and computer-engineering students from Northeastern University thought that robotics’ most useful creation should be used in more ways to assist mankind. And so they hacked together a robotic feeding arm that you can control with your just eyes.
Salon When the 1 percent say no Continuing the grand tradition of privileged communities opposing transit projects, the good people of 90210 are fighting a plan to run a subway below Beverly Hills High School.
ABC News Best Commencement Speeches of 2012 Graduation speakers include President Obama, Oprah Winfrey and Jane Lynch.