Polio is not nearly as contagious as the measles, but it is still important to maintain high vaccination rates, says Neil Maniar, a public-health researcher at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. “If we start to see a consistent decline around the world in polio vaccination rates, all it takes is a couple of outbreaks for […]

According to Jay Aslam, the head of AI at Northeastern, the university has already been working with faculty to understand the best ways to use AI in education. Aslam said the university wanted a “true partnership” to help transform higher education instead of a traditional vendor deal. Aslam said he hopes establishing the partnership will […]

“Part of our mission as a university is to really rethink how it is that we do both teaching and learning in the presence of AI,” Javed Aslam, chief of AI at Northeastern, tells Axios. “It’s really on both those fronts.”

Peter Simon, professor of economics at Northeastern University, told Newsweek: “It seems to me that a reasonable person looking around the world from the United States saying, ‘we’re besieged with unfair trade practices,’ the first thing that they would do, the first thought that should have come into their head is let’s sit down and renegotiate.”

Rana Foroohar highlights how universities should be a conduit for paid work experiences that fully connect what students are learning with jobs in a way that supports development of real world skills for students and creates a pool of less expensive labour for companies — something that has turned schools like Northeastern in Boston into […]

Peter Simon, professor of economics at Northeastern University, told Newsweek it may take years for companies to adjust and increase their domestic output, but prices could go up fairly quickly.

Daniel Medwed, a professor of law and criminal justice at Northeastern University, said part of the fascination with Read and others like Casey Anthony or Amanda Knox comes from the relative rarity of a woman facing murder charges.

Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University, said the lawyers will need to look beyond just the questioning to determine if a juror is fit to serve on the Read case.

“They’ve done massive firings and triggered massive lawsuits and now there are massive appeals,” Jeremy Paul, a law professor at Northeastern University, told USA TODAY. “They caused all this. It’s absolutely clear that the fault is with them.”

“They had to come up with numbers that made him look good, and that would make U.S. [trade] look bad,” said Peter Simon, professor of economics at Northeastern University.

A Northeastern University marketing professor, Yakov Bart, opined at the time that the failure was due to Amazon’s reach and consumers’ lack of alternatives to it.

The company also announced partnerships with Northeastern University, London School of Economics (LSE), and Champlain College, along with with Internet2, which builds university tech infrastructure, and Instructure (maker of Canvas) to increase “equitable access to tools that support universities as they integrate AI.”