Find coverage of Northeastern University in the press.
Boston Herald
Gaskin: When history is erased, Boston must preserve it
What some call Boston’s “Honor Mile” or a “living gallery without walls” quickly drew local and national media attention and sparked new initiatives. At Northeastern University, Dr. Regine Michelle Jean-Charles developed a course based on the project’s research.
Mass Live
Mass. prisons launch new five-year strategic plan, setting a ‘clear path forward’
A partnership with Northeastern University to research staff wellbeing and career longevity.
‘Veep’ star Timothy Simons to speak at University of Maine graduation ceremony
The university is the latest New England college to announce television stars as commencement speakers in recent days, with Harvard University selecting Conan O’Brien and Northeastern University choosing Hilary Duff.
Scientists Reveal Hidden Drawback of Appearing Enthusiastic at Work
A study led by Sangah Bae, professor of management and organizational development at Northeastern University, reveals that managers often give more work to those they believe to be “intrinsically motivated”—even if it works against them.
GBH
Margaret Burnham: By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners
Hear from renowned legal scholar, civil rights advocate, and former judge Margaret A. Burnham, the founder of Northeastern University School of Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) and author of By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners.
Science Magazine
AI algorithms can become ‘agents of chaos’
Natalie Shapira, a computer scientist at Northeastern University, wondered how far users could trust new artificial intelligence (AI) “agents,” a kind of algorithm that can autonomously plan and carry out tasks such as managing emails and entering calendar appointments.
IFL Science
There Really Is No Clean Definition Of Biological Sex – And That’s OK
And more likely than either option is this: that you don’t actually know which gametes are present at all. “We do not refute the gametic definition, it remains a useful and widely applicable framework,” says Madeline Eppley, a PhD Candidate at Northeastern University’s Marine Science Center, and Andy Lee, who recently completed a PhD at Purdue University, […]
Mass Live
Colleges are under pressure. What are they doing to reinvent themselves?
“We try to be proactive and plan ahead as opposed to being reactive and doing that after the market has changed,” Satyajit Dattagupta, Northeastern’s chief enrollment officer, said.
The Hechinger Report
The AI ‘hivemind’: Why so many student essays sound alike
Bruce Maxwell, professor of computer science at Northeastern University, was grading exams for his online master’s course in computer vision, a subfield in artificial intelligence that deals with images, when he first noticed that something felt … off.
Man arrested in Edgewater ends up dead in ICE detention center
Reports by Stanford University, Northeastern University and others have raised concerns ranging from environmental conditions at Glades to “horrific conditions” and human rights abuses, according to the ACLU.
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
‘All it is is pain’: Jessie Diggins testing the limits of endurance
“It’s all overwhelmingly trying to stop her from moving forward any longer,” said Rui Li, an associate clinical professor of exercise science at Northeastern University in Boston. Most likely she was experiencing dehydration.
Fortune
Women are avoiding the very technology that threatens them most, as expert warns of a ‘two-tiered AI economy’ approaching
Women are also less certain about the benefits of AI adoption, according to Beatrice Magistro and Sophie Borwein, assistant professors of political science at Northeastern University and the University of British Columbia, respectively.