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Meet the graduates: Colleen Shea (Northeastern University)

Edit Public Technologies 26 May 2016
(Source. Northeastern University) ... Courtesy photo. Illustration by Greg Grinnell ... What com­pelled you to study law at Northeastern? ... At the Mass­a­chu­setts Depart­ment of Ele­men­tary and Sec­ondary Edu­ca­tion, where I researched and wrote a policy mem­o­randum addressing the fea­si­bility of early exit cri­teria for Eng­lish lan­guage learners with dis­abil­i­ties under Title IX, I got to see how statewide edu­ca­tion policy is shaped....

Pacoima pastor William T. Broadous remembered as man of strength

Edit LA Daily News 19 May 2016
He was told as a teenager by doctors he’d never walk again and later as an adult, that he wouldn’t beat cancer, or survive a respiratory illness through the night. But the Rev. William T. Broadous defied all those warnings ... “To say he was a man with strength and stamina would be an understatement,” said his sister, the Rev. Pamela J. Broadous ... Broadous, Teria Antoinette Broadous, April Chanel Broadous-Day, Rev....

The scientific reality of Game of Thrones fantasy (Northeastern University)

Edit Public Technologies 17 May 2016
(Source. Northeastern University). Fiction is often inspired by fact, and fantasy grounded in reality ... George R. R ... Reality is beans and tofu, and ashes at the end.' ... *** ... No. 1. Greyscale ... We know now that lep­rosy is caused by the bac­teria Mycobac­terium leprae and Mycobac­terium lep­ro­matosis rather than a sup­pos­edly pol­luted soul (shocking I know) ... leprae is actu­ally among the first bac­teria dis­cov­ered to cause dis­ease in humans....

Biotech entrepreneurs pitch their startups (Northeastern University)

Edit Public Technologies 17 May 2016
(Source. Northeastern University) ... Photo by Adam Glanzman/Northeastern University ... Bion and 3D For­tify, which will share the $1,000 grand prize. Meet the four startups. Bion stems from a project led by team member and doc­toral stu­dent Garima Bhadwaj, PhD'17, in pro­fessor Thomas Webster's lab, and is focused on devel­oping a coating for med­ical implantable devices that would repel bac­teria and decrease infec­tions ... (noodl. 33603286) ....

Pete Davidson on vulgar SI priest: He’s ‘an epic piece of s–t’

Edit New York Post 12 May 2016
Joseph by the Sea HS. “He is an absolute monster and has ruined that high school. He should have been fired years ago.” ... “He calls women ‘tw-ts’ and multiple women a ­‘tw-teria.’ He also refers to women as ‘bitches,’ ” the suit says ... ....

Here’s your one-stop-shop for tracking Boston’s food trucks (Northeastern University)

Edit Public Technologies 12 May 2016
(Source. Northeastern University). There are more than 50 food trucks doing busi­ness in and around Boston and, by def­i­n­i­tion, they are con­stantly on the move ... Feed Me Boston aggre­gates infor­ma­tion from the city, food truck apps, and food trucks' own web­sites into one des­ti­na­tion, where users can search for more than 55 food trucks using var­ious cri­teria including type of food and time of day ... The Feed Me home­page ... (noodl....

Foul mouth priest in hot water at Catholic high school

Edit New York Post 11 May 2016
A potty mouthed priest, the principal of a Staten Island Catholic school — who allegedly trashed colleagues as “tw -ts,” “b —hes,” “d–kheads” and “pieces of s–t,”– better pray that his sacrilegious statements didn’t reach God’s ears. Three employees of St ... Michael P ... “He calls women ‘tw -ts’ and multiple women a ‘tw -teria....

Watch Beyoncé debut 'Lemonade' songs live and pay tribute to Prince at Miami gig

Edit NME 28 Apr 2016
'Formation' A video posted by @valbuenamarie on Apr 27, 2016 at 5.57pm PDT 'Hold Up' A video posted by Vicky (@vicky_tori_a) on Apr 27, 2016 at 6.13pm PDT 'All Night' A video posted by Teria Bates-Bowens (@sparklingcleanhandbags) on Apr 27, 2016 at 6.29pm PDT 'Sorry' A video posted by HMA (@hmadr1) on Apr 27, 2016 at 5.59pm PDT 'Don't Hurt ......

Northeastern researchers work to keep hospital-acquired staph infections in check (Northeastern University)

Edit Public Technologies 25 Apr 2016
(Source ... I think what we dis­cov­ered is a gen­eral mech­a­nism of per­sister for­ma­tion that likely oper­ates in all bac­teria but has been over­looked ... coli or other bac­teria applied to staph,' says Lewis, who dis­cov­ered per­sis­ters' role in relapsing infec­tions in 2000 ... 'I think what we dis­cov­ered is a gen­eral mech­a­nism of per­sister for­ma­tion that likely oper­ates in all bac­teria but has been over­looked,' says Lewis....

Northeastern honors community’s highest achievements (Northeastern University)

Edit Public Technologies 22 Apr 2016
(Source. Northeastern University). From left to right, Provost James C. Bean, Rhodes Scholar Logan Jackson, and President Joseph E. Aoun. Photos by Matthew Modoono ... Aoun told the award win­ners ... inter­ests ... Stu­dents nom­i­nate their pro­fes­sors for this award, con­sid­ering sev­eral cri­teria, including depth of knowl­edge in the sub­ject and ability to pro­vide effec­tive links to course con­tent, research, and expe­ri­en­tial learning....

‘Do you know what’s in your drinking water?’ (Northeastern University)

Edit Public Technologies 13 Apr 2016
(Source ... 'It is still smaller than bac­teria that might be in our food or asso­ci­ated with our bodies, but it is a com­po­nent that has not been looked at very vigorously.' ... He uses DNA sequencing to gather infor­ma­tion about entire genomes and aims to design treat­ments to better manage the bac­teria so they does not pose a threat to public health ... 'And on the drinking water side most of the effort goes toward removing bac­teria....

It’s a bug’s life (Northeastern University)

Edit Public Technologies 07 Apr 2016
Her research, titled 'Bat­tling Bac­teria. Par­enting Lessons from Ter­mites,' explores how the eggs of termites-the progeny-cope with bac­teria. Her find­ings could have broad eco­log­ical impli­ca­tions and also pro­vide clues for pest man­age­ment, per­haps using bac­teria to con­trol their spread ... To find out she iso­lated eggs at three stages of devel­op­ment and grew bac­teria along­side them....

Good things come in small packages (Northeastern University)

Edit Public Technologies 07 Apr 2016
(Source. Northeastern University). Picture this. A sensor the size of two matchsticks side-by-side that can detect a bacterial infection in two minutes flat ... Photo by Matthew Modoono/​Northeastern University. Pic­ture this ... Tra­di­tional detec­tion methods require a swab of the bac­teria to be cul­tured in a dish for 24 to 48 hours ... In the future the tech­nology can be cus­tomized to detect a wide range of bac­teria, he says ... (noodl....
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