NY Times’ “Lost Science” series profiles Michael Silevitch, who leads SENTRY, a research center dedicated to protecting busy public spaces, and last April was instructed to “end all work” immediately.

“People ride more when it’s cheaper. … that means improving their mobility, giving them opportunities to go places and do things, participate in life,“ said Peter Furth, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern University. 

Lisa Feldman-Barrett, a psychology professor at Northeastern University, says “social support from a trusted, reliable source can be beneficial.” If an AI can reduce distress in the moment, she says that’s a good thing.

As a result, orbital data centers would also need large onboard batteries to smooth out power fluctuations, said Josep Miquel Jornet, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Northeastern University. 

By using a browser extension that reranked content on the X feeds of study participants, prioritizing antidemocratic attitudes or partisan animosity, Northeastern University researchers found that people’s negative feelings toward the opposition party increased significantly. 

A new tactic, pioneered by Northeastern University a few years ago, is taking the satellite campus concept to its logical extreme. “A university cannot be defined by its campus,” Joseph Aoun, Northeastern’s president, told me. “We’re going to them rather than asking them to come to one campus.”

With all these solutions, “there are no silver bullets, and what works in one place may not work in another”, notes Lizzie Yarina, a climate adaptation researcher at Northeastern University in the US.

A tracker produced by Northeastern University’s Center for Inclusive Computing in Boston estimated at the end of last year that there were 728 AI-focused undergraduate programmes just in computing departments at 584 universities across the US.

The difference was two to three degrees on a 100-degree “feeling thermometer.” That might not seem big, but “it’s comparable to three years of historical change on average in the U.S.,” says co-author Chenyan Jia, a communication scientist at Northeastern University. 

“All options should be on the table, but there are significant ethical concerns with initiating medication for addiction that might not be there for long term,” said Leo Beletsky, a professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University in Boston. 

Aliza Hochman Bloom, an assistant professor of law at Northeastern University and former federal public defender in Florida, echoed that dismissals, even without prejudice, are rare. 

Truong Tran works at Northeastern University’s Oakland campus and teaches an undergraduate creative writing foundations class.