From college basketball star to reality-show cast member to radio co-host, Ashlee Feldman has never been one to sit on the sidelines.
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Chance meeting leads to Dubai conference
Thanks to the ambition of Sabrina Woods, associate director of career services, Northeastern co-hosted a global event for higher-education career counselors from six countries to network and share best practices.
Popular search: Student gives co-op experience high ranking
English major Lene Adolfsen’s position at a marketing and search-engine-optimization company in England has given her a new perspective on the potential of her humanities degree.
3Qs: Internet, small businesses giving Black Friday a run for its money
Bruce Clark, associate professor of marketing, explains what retailers big and small can expect from the holiday shopping season, which kicks off this week.
40 years after Title IX
At a recent panel discussion on campus, Northeastern political science professor Eileen McDonagh noted that, “Sports is the most sex-segregated secular institution in American society.”
3Qs: Newsweek parts with print
Jeff Howe, an assistant professor of journalism, likens digital news to an open kitchen restaurant, where something hot is always being served.
3Qs: Not your mother’s neologisms
“Lolz,” “photobombing” and “mwahahaha” have recently been added to Oxford Dictionaries Online, prompting a discussion of our modern taste for digital jargon.
3Qs: How to eat healthy around the holidays
Overeating is common this time of year, between the large holiday feasts and more and more sweets creeping into the kitchen. With Thanksgiving only a few days away, we asked nutrition expert Katherine Tucker, chair of the Department of Health Sciences in the Bouvé College of Health Sciences, to offer her tips to eat healthy and avoid overindulging.
3Qs: Disconnect between Obama and the Republican Party
A daylong conference at Northeastern University on Thursday will explore the fascinating subplots of the political landscape now that the 2012 elections are less than a year away. The event was organized by Northeastern University political science professor William Crotty, the Thomas P. O’Neill Chair in Public Life. To preview the conference, we asked Crotty to examine how President Barack Obama has fared in his first term in dealing with resistance from the Republican Party.
3Qs: When to diagnose and treat children for ADHD
Earlier this month, the American Academy of Pediatrics expanded the guidelines for diagnosing and treating children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), lowering the age to include kids as young as 4 years old. We asked Robert Volpe, associate professor in the Bouvé College of Health Sciences, whose research involves assessing the academic problems children with ADHD experience, to analyze the new guidelines — and discuss how research in this area has evolved in recent years.
3Qs: Tips to maintain a healthy diet
As students return to campus, the less-structured living environment can present challenges to maintaining healthy eating habits, We asked Sabrina Noel Feldeisen, a registered dietician and research assistant professor in the Bouvé College of Health Sciences, to offer tips for students to make healthy food choices as the academic year begins.
3Qs: Is a potential Facebook hack on the horizon?
The hacker group Anonymous recently announced through a YouTube video that it plans to “kill” Facebook on Nov. 5 for supposedly abusing the privacy of its users. We asked Engin Kirda, the Sy and Laurie Sternberg Interdisciplinary Endowed Professor for Information Assurance — with joint appointments in Northeastern’s College of Computer and Information Science and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering — to discuss the potential implications of the hack and the motives behind hacking groups such as Anonymous.
