Common Wealth Silent crisis GOV. DEVAL PATRICK issued a press release in September announcing seven new appointees to the University of Massachusetts Board of Trustees. The release contained all the basics: their names, their previous work histories, and a canned statement from the governor saying, “These board members all care deeply about the University of Massachusetts and will work […]
Popsci This Man Could Rule the World In 1736 the Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler ended a debate among the citizens of Konigsberg, Prussia, by drawing a graph. The Pregel River divided the city, now Kaliningrad, Russia, into four sections. Seven bridges connected them. Could a person cross all seven without walking over the same one twice?
MIT Technology Review The Virtual Nurse Will See You Now Researchers at Northeastern University have developed a virtual nurse and exercise coach that are surprisingly likable and effectiveâeven if they’re not quite as affable as the medical hologram on Star Trek. In fact, patients who interacted with a virtual nurse named Elizabeth said they preferred the computer simulation to an actual doctor or nurse because […]
This Professor Can ‘Spit a 16’ and Then Find Its Square Root It is safe to say that few members of the math faculty get asked the kind of question that Peter M. Plourde did at the start of a recent algebra class here at Northeastern University.
ABC Rick Perry’s Possible Debate Ditching Would Be Unprecedented To debate or not to debate? That is the question Rick Perry and his campaign staff wrestled with last week as the Texas governor floated the possibility of skipping the more-than-a-dozen remaining GOP presidential primary debates.
The Seattle Times University in Boston is planning area campus Northeastern University may soon be the newest name in higher education in Seattle.
WCNC Northeastern University opens satellite campus in Charlotte There is now another option for students looking for a graduate degree. Northeastern University has opened its first regional campus, and it’s right in the center of uptown.
Northeastern U. Opens the First in a Planned Series of Graduate Campuses Across the U.S. Northeastern University opened a graduate campus in Charlotte, N.C., on Monday, the first step in a far-reaching plan to expand across the country, form research partnerships within cities, and take advantage of regional needs for specialized workers.
Charlotte Business Journal Northeastern heads uptown Northeastern University landed a long way from home Monday, trading chowder for sweet tea at its new uptown campus.
Northeastern putting down stakes across the country Northeastern University is going south and west: It plans to open a regional campus in Charlotte, N.C., today and a similar outpost in Seattle within the year, with hopes of eventually planting flags in Austin, Minneapolis, the Silicon Valley area, and beyond.
Newsweek The New Science Behind Your Spending Addiction Like many colleges, Washington University in St. Louis offers children of its faculty free tuition. So Leonard Green, a professor of psychology there, did all he could to persuade his daughter to choose the school. He extolled its academic offerings, praised its social atmosphere, talked up its extracurricular activitiesâand promised that if Hannah chose Washington […]
Rick Perry: Afraid to Debate? Let’s put this in terms that Rick Perry can understand: When you show up for the rodeo, you’ve got to ride the bull.