Greg Goodale

First-​​year stu­dents in a service-​​learning-​​based public-​​speaking course are changing the world—and boosting their self-confidence—one word at a time.

We asked three fac­ulty experts to weigh in on Barack Obama’s elec­tion night vic­tory and what we can expect from him going forward.

A day after the nation went to the polls, we’re talking to North­eastern fac­ulty mem­bers about Pres­i­dent Barack Obama’s elec­toral win over Repub­lican Mitt Romney, despite an extremely close pop­ular vote count. Check in throughout the day to see what experts from across the uni­ver­sity are saying about what the results mean for the nation and the world.

Experts in polit­ical analysis, public speaking and pres­i­den­tial debates weigh in on Thursday’s debate between Joe Biden and Paul Ryan.

In the eighth edi­tion of recent fac­ulty books, we high­light works about the per­sua­sive use of sounds, inter­preting the day’s news in a post-​​9/​11 reli­gious land­scape and Croatia’s decade of archi­tec­tural experimentation.

In his new book, “Sonic Per­sua­sion: Reading Sound in the Recorded Age,” Greg Goodale, assis­tant pro­fessor of com­mu­ni­ca­tion studies, crit­i­cally ana­lyzes how a wide range of actual sounds — from U.S. pres­i­dents’ audio record­ings to car­toon sound­tracks — have been used as per­sua­sive devices, often pro­viding greater meaning to inter­pre­ta­tions of iden­tity, cul­ture and history.

Service-​​learning course intro­duces stu­dents to the nuts and bolts of how laws get passed.

As the nation rebounds from eco­nomic dis­aster and faces polit­ical divide in Wash­ington, Pres­i­dent Barack Obama deliv­ered his State of the Union address Tuesday night that put the economy front … read more »

North­eastern stu­dents lobby state leg­is­la­tors to pass a bill on behalf of local foster youth