Tag: Northwestern University

  • Arts & Culture

    Women who are ambitious, powerful, in love — and in peril

    Whitney White plans musical programs, each on a different Shakespeare play, all asking: What is price of ambition for women?

    Whitney White.
  • Nation & World

    Paychecks for college athletes?

    Peter Carfagna, a sports law expert at Harvard Law School, talks about growing legal pressure on the NCAA to reconsider the way it treats student-athletes.

  • Science & Tech

    Touch, drag, learn

    Research by computer scientists, biologists, and cognitive psychologists at Harvard, Northwestern, Wellesley, and Tufts suggests that collaborative touch-screen games have value beyond play.

  • Nation & World

    India sees gains from gender quota

    A new research paper co-authored by Harvard Kennedy School Professor Rohini Pande finds that the system designating female leaders for selected village councils in India has resulted in substantive gains for girls in those villages — both in terms of aspirations and educational outcomes.

  • Nation & World

    Exploring Islam in Nigeria

    A panel of scholars explored the topic of Islam in Nigeria in preparation for the visit to Harvard by Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, the Sultan of Sokoto.

  • Health

    Love life

    A new Harvard study shows that ratios between males and females affect human longevity.

  • Nation & World

    Working the night shift

    Volunteers assist with a variety of medical skills, from nursing to orthopedics to medical equipment repair, playing a critical role in the response to the Haitian earthquake.