CNN Radio News Day: September 26, 2012 AUDIO: Here are some of the stories we cover in today’s edition: In just one week, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney will meet for the first presidential debate of the 2012 general election. The very first presidential debate in history was held 52 years ago today between John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon. Watching […]
Boston.com Old school meet new school: How universities are adapting to build entrepreneurs Facebook started in a Harvard dorm room. iRobot got its start in MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Lab. Sand 9 was founded as a Boston University Photonics Center spinout. In Boston, business and higher education have long been intertwined. And now more than ever before, a new wave of innovation is coming directly from Boston-area institutions, fueled […]
Nurse.com Longtime head leaves nurse leadership program Shirley Chater, RN, PhD, FAAN, the national advisory committee chairwoman for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Executive Nurse Fellows program since its inception in 1998, has stepped down from her post, the Foundation announced. Terry Fulmer, RN, PhD, FAAN, professor and dean of the Bouve College of Health Sciences at Northeastern University, takes over the […]
MSNBC The Right Idea VIDEO: A student-run venture accelerator is preparing tomorrow’s entrepreneurs today.
Newsday Unless TV calls, refs lockout will continue Bumped up against the week’s widespread outrage over football’s replacement referees, warm remembrances of the great NFL myth-maker Steve Sabol, who died Tuesday, didn’t stand a chance. Temporarily, at least, reaction to the zebra lockout has thoroughly overwhelmed the league’s preferred image of itself, so beautifully crafted in Sabol’s lyrical, heroic NFL Films depictions. Try […]
Rethink Robotics for manufacturing A new human-like robot developed and produced by a Boston company will likely find strong demand from U.S. manufacturers looking to automate repetitive tasks, according to some who follow the manufacturing sector in Massachusetts. “I’m sure (manufacturers) are going to want it,” said Barry Bluestone, director of Northeastern University’s Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional […]
Jobless rate up in Mass. for 2d month The Massachusetts unemployment rate inched up to 6.3 percent in August, the second straight monthly increase. “It reflects a slowing economy,” said Northeastern University economist Alan Clayton-Matthews, who noted the financial problems in Europe in particular have hurt because the region accounts for 40 percent of Massachusetts’s exports.
Windham Patch Former Resident Starts Motivational Website A longtime resident of Windham and current student at Northeastern University has started a website built entirely around the concept of motivation. Sahil Maripuri, who has lived in town for virtually his whole life, recently began PromoteHustle.com.
Northeastern AD to fill opening on NCAA’s basketball selection committee Northeastern athletic director Peter Roby has been added to the NCAA’s Division I men’s basketball selection committee, filling a spot vacated when former Delaware AD Bernard Muir left for Stanford.
Fox News Dyslexic brain hears fuzzy sounds Dyslexia may be rooted in a problem the brain has in teasing out distinct sounds from the incoming garble, researchers say. Considered a learning disability, dyslexia makes it difficult to read and spell for the estimated 15 percent of Americans who have it. Although dyslexia causes reading problems, the disorder is often linked to subtle […]
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.