Women's Health The Simple Way to Be More Compassionate So your dad’s birthday totally slipped your mind and you haven’t had a chance to call your college roommate to see how her new job is going. It happens—but it may happen less often if you take time to just breathe:Meditating may help make you a more compassionate person, according to a study published in […]
Strong social ties impede spread of rumours Strong ties between individuals can actually hinder the spread of information through a network, a study has shown. A team of data scientists at Northeastern University in Boson led by Marton Karsai examined more than 600 million time-stamped mobile phone calls between six million people over six months in an unnamed European country. “Our results provide […]
Immigrants in Mass. now likely to be more educated Alan Clayton-Matthews, Northeastern professor, said he has witnessed firsthand one of the reasons why, in Santa María Tzejá, a remote village in Guatemala that saw brutal violence during the 36-year civil war. Townsfolk fled to the mountains and refugee camps in Mexico, but then in the 1990s returned to rebuild the town. They also built […]
Ask the Experts: What Impacts Consumer Adoption of Online Banking Products? While banking was once characterized by quaint features such as the ability to stroll down to the neighborhood branch, where the tellers knew your name and might even give your child a lollypop, the combination of competition in the industry and advances in technology has fostered the simultaneous decline in face-to-face customer service and rise […]
Google Glass: is it a threat to our privacy? Of course, the benefits wouldn’t accrue to the wearer. Google would sell the data (suitably anonymised, of course). And your smartphone already provides a huge amount of detail about you. Song Chaoming, a researcher at Northeastern University in Boston, has been analysing mobile phone records (including which base stations the phone connects to) and has […]
3-D pen garners $2m on crowd-funding site Somerville toy creators Peter Dilworth and Max Bogue struck Internet gold just two days after they posted a project on the crowd-funding website Kickstarter to pay for their latest invention: a three-dimensional printer in the form of a hand-held pen. Their gadget, known as the 3Doodler, attracted so many pledges — with many people offering the […]
The Hechinger Report Colleges take new approach to anticipating—and meeting—workforce needs One of those is Northeastern University, whose so-called “experiential learning” approach requires undergraduates to work in real-world settings for as many as 18 months while in school. More than half go on to full-time jobs in those places, and more than 90 percent are employed or in graduate school within nine months of earning their degrees. Nationally, […]
Giving students an enterprising path to start on As we continue to look for strategies to jump-start the American economy, here’s one way we can promote innovation and accelerate economic growth over the longer term: give every college student the opportunity to be an entrepreneur. There’s no doubt students would support such an initiative. In a recent national poll commissioned by Northeastern University, […]
Finally: A Time For Lawyers To Ask Questions When They Don’t Know the Answers In the traditional law school classroom — the kind you saw on The Paper Chase, the kind you read about in One L — professors instruct solely by relentlessly asking intimidating questions. It’s a counterintuitive approach. And yet almost without fail, the professors’ highly directed questions elicit from the students themselves the essential principles behind […]
School Resource Officers Protect Our Children n the aftermath of the Newtown school massacre, one of the few reforms advocated by both the president and the NRA involves increasing the presence of resource officers in the schools. This also happens to be one of the few recommendations that has a realistic chance of improving the safety of our children — and […]
The Times Magazine Our husbands killed our children It was the American sociologist and criminologist Professor Jack Levin, from Northeastern University in Boston, who first coined the term “family annihilator” in the mid-eighties to describe a father who kills his children, and possibly also his spouse and himself. The high body count distinguishes it from “filicide”, which usually denotes a single victim. But […]
University Business Nursing Schools Reinventing Recruitment Or connect with local resources. Bouve College of Health Sciences at Northeastern University in Boston is among six local nursing schools that participate in the Northeast Region VA Nursing Alliance (NERVANA), developed by two nearby hospitals. It hopes to increase recruitment and retention of nurses and clinical faculty and encourage practicing nurses to advance their […]