Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University, said bringing on a “fresh set of eyes” to lead a new prosecution of Read could allow prosecutors to craft a new approach. … But perhaps more significant is the ability for the district attorney’s office to project a new sense of objectivity in a case where potential law enforcement conflicts of […]

Northeastern University held a groundbreaking for the Roux Institute and Alfond Learning Center Friday at the former B&M Baked Bean site in Portland. David and Barbara Roux said the idea to create a graduate school focused on advanced computing and artificial intelligence arose five years ago.

The former B&M Baked Beans factory on Beanpot Circle in Portland will soon be the permanent home to Northeastern University’s Roux Institute. The university broke ground today on the 300,000-square-foot campus that will be the institute’s permanent home. Right now, the university leases space for the institute from the WEX headquarters on Fore Street.

“What this case needs, I think, is truly a reevaluation, a sort of soup to nuts reevaluation of, ‘Is it worth expending resources on another trial, given what happened before and given all of the evidence that might be favorable to Karen Read,’” said Daniel Medwed, a criminal law professor at Northeastern University.

“Even as her policies may not differ much from Biden’s positions, her generational outlook and sensibilities are worlds apart from both Biden and Trump and represent a type of fundamental change in perspectives that will be hard for voters to miss,” said Costas Panagopoulos, a political science professor at Northeastern University.

“Lead can be present in the soil where cinnamon is grown, especially in countries with heavy industrial activity or where leaded gasoline and pesticides were once used,” says  Darin Detwiler, L.P.D., an associate teaching professor of food policy at Northeastern University and author of Food Safety: Past, Present, and Predictions. “Plants can absorb lead from contaminated […]