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Where U.S. science has been hit hardest after Trump’s first year

Describes a grant submitted by Rebecca Shansky, a neuroscientist at Northeastern University who studies sex differences in behavior and brain function.
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Are mainstream news media finally ready to examine Trump’s mental fitness?

Op-ed by Jill Abramson, who teaches journalism at Northeastern University and is a contributing Globe Opinion writer.
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AI graduation requirements will soon be here

Some colleges and universities are already putting AI tools directly into students’ hands. Northeastern University, for example, partnered with the technology company Anthropic to make advanced AI tools widely available to students across disciplines.
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Massachusetts AG, ticket sellers weigh in on Ticketmaster verdict

“Ticketmaster has taken a sizeable fee for decades. It harms us directly because we’re overcharged with these,” said economist John Kwoka.
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Jury finds Ticketmaster owner ran illegal monopoly

“This verdict underscores what a bad idea settling was,” John Kwoka, an economics professor at Northeastern University, told AFP.
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Ticketmaster-owner Live Nation ran a monopoly and overcharged fans, jury finds

John Kwoka, a professor at Northeastern University who previously worked at the US Federal Trade Commission, said the verdict was a warning to large corporations in other industries.  
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Why Jerome Powell — not Trump — will decide when the Federal Reserve chief exits the scene

But ousting Powell would be legally dubious, Dan Urman, director of the law and public policy minor at Northeastern University, told CBS News.
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Is Caleb Williams the real ‘Iceman’? Or does nickname belong to Gervin and others?

But that might not matter either, according to Alexandra Roberts, a trademark expert and professor of law and media at Northeastern University School of Law.
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Are you paying more than your neighbour? It could be ‘surveillance pricing’

Advertisers and data brokers “are recording basically everywhere you go and then drawing inferences from that. So where do you like to shop? What kinds of things do you like to read?” said Christo Wilson, a computer science professor at Northeastern University in Boston who researches digital consumer protection issues. 

We Don’t Really Know How A.I. Works. That’s a Problem.

David Bau, who was doing similar work at Northeastern, told me: “I think that people will agree that it’s evidence that the black box is not totally opaque. I think we’ve turned a corner.”
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What AI In Government Actually Looks Like

Op-ed by Beth Simone Noveck, a professor at Northeastern University.
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Get Ready for Ticket Prices to Keep Rising

But John Kwoka, a Northeastern University economics professor who specializes in antitrust, thinks that supply and demand aren’t enough to explain what’s happening. “I’m one of the economists who’ve argued you need to break up some companies,” he says.