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Boston.com
Northeastern creates new bioengineering department
Northeastern University is creating a new bioengineering department, campus officials announced. The news comes less than a month after the university received final approval from city officials to build a new $225 million research building dedicated to science and engineering studies, fields that Boston-area higher education institutions have made major investments in recently. The new department will […]
Maybe We Should Stem the Panic and Consider Needs
Ms. Stotsky thinks that all high-school students should be required to take trigonometry and precalculus to be ready for the brave new world of science, technology, engineering and math. Even if the STEM crisis were real, this is not a good idea. Of course, advanced math classes should be offered, but there is no reason […]
Manufacturing 2.0: Old Industry Creating New High-Tech Jobs
“I think that’s an old story,” says Barry Bluestone, an economist at Northeastern University in Boston. He’s been studying the 7,000 manufacturing businesses in Massachusetts, surveying hundreds of them and making site visits to dozens. “We’re seeing a new, almost renaissance in manufacturing,” he says. Bluestone says manufacturers are learning new technologies, and new manufacturing […]
For Comfort and Posterity, Digital Archives Gather Crowds
The pressure-cooker bombs that exploded at the finish line of the Boston Marathon last April 15 shattered bodies and lives. But their impact was felt far beyond the blast radius as the shock spread and authorities set out to find the perpetrators. The ensuing manhunt put an already traumatized city on lockdown. One of the […]
NU president urges military to resume tuition aid
The Pentagon’s decision to suspend tuition assistance because of the government shutdown prompted Northeastern University president Joseph E. Aoun to send a strongly worded letter Sunday to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel in a plea to reinstate the aid for active-duty service members. The cutoff affects as many as two dozen service members who plan to […]
Alpha Foundation awards $10M to 15 schools, United Steelworkers for US mine safety research
The other winners are the Colorado School of Mines, Northeastern University, University of California-Berkeley, University of Illinois at Chicago, and the universities of Kentucky, Utah, Pittsburgh, Arizona and Connecticut. Virginia Tech will work on through-the-earth communication systems and a new risk-management approach to safety, while WVU will work on safety systems at surface mines and […]
WGBH
Will MOOCs Make The ‘Ivory Tower’ Obsolete?
On a recent sunny afternoon at Northeastern University, President Joseph Aoun mingles with incoming freshmen. As a member of the American Council on Education, Aoun is urging higher-education institutions to embrace disruptive technologies such as MOOCs to expand their reach. He says Northeastern is already taking the lead. “We are in Charlotte, we are in […]
Boston Magazine
The Socii App Lets Users Get Free Food From Social Media Posts
Noting that it’s difficult for businesses to generate buzz using social media merely by asking people to “like” their Facebook page, or follow them on Twitter, Victor Dweck saw an open opportunity to introduce a product that he says could change the way customers interact with establishments, while rewarding everyone involved. Using the app Dweck […]
Are Jobless Benefits Leading to Higher Unemployment?
The latest entry in the debate comes from Rand Ghayad, a graduate student atNortheastern University who has already won attention for his work studying the plight of the long-term unemployed. In an earlier paper, Mr. Ghayad and a colleague looked at the well-known relationship between unemployment and job openings. Ordinarily, the two indicators move together, in a predictable pattern: More […]
Healthcare IT News
3 benefits of virtual health assistants
In explaining NextIT’s work, Morrison repeatedly cited research conducted by Northeastern University’s Timothy Bickmore, who argues that so-called relational agents “can play a major role in the chronic disease management process by providing patients not only with an additional source of information about their disease, treatment regimen and adherence level, but with motivational support for taking care […]
Asia Pacific Forum
Generic Drug War: Global South vs. Big Pharma
Can you put a price tag on your health? Around the world, people are being denied life-saving medicines simply because they can’t afford the cost of medicine. But there is a growing movement to resist the power of the big pharmaceutical companies that currently control the global medicine market through monopolies and patents.You might have […]
Northeastern Shows Off Its ‘Secret Sauce,’ Awarding Nearly $5K to New Student Ventures
Twenty-two ventures came into Northeastern’s Husky Startup Challenge with nothing but an idea. After three months of guidance and support from the University’s Entrepreneurs Club, however, they were able to turn those ideas into minimum viable products ready to be demoed in front Boston’s startup community on Monday night. “It’s incredible how far they’ve come in a semester,” […]