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Northeastern breaks ground on new Portland campus
Northeastern University held a groundbreaking ceremony Friday to mark construction on a new campus in Portland, Maine, that’ll allow it to more than double the student body at that location.
The Washington Examiner
Harris tries to shake incumbent label with call for ‘new generation of leadership’
“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.
Food & Wine
Only 6 Cinnamon Brands Were Deemed Safe for Consumption, According to a New Investigation by Consumer Reports
“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 […]
JD Vance fogs up the school safety debate
“Vance compares apples to oranges. His argument is specious,” said Matthew Miller, professor of health sciences and epidemiology at Northeastern University and codirector of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center.
Mail-in mishaps
Northeastern University reported that the amount of Black incoming freshmen slightly decreased from almost 8 percent to just over 5 percent.
Get Ready to Start Seeing a Lot More of Kamala Harris
Harris “needs to hit the campaign trail hard” and has “no time to waste” due to her later entry into the race, Costas Panagopoulos, a political science professor at Northeastern University told Newsweek.
Bill would ban sports betting ads during games and forbid bets on college athletes
Harry Levant, director of gambling policy at the Public Health Advocacy Institute at Northeastern University School of Law, compared gambling to drugs and alcohol in terms of potential addictiveness.
Al Jazeera
In a historic move, Colombia bypasses patent to access HIV drug
Colombia is “a shining example of a country that has taken a little bit of risk”, said Brook Baker, a health policy analyst and law professor emeritus at Northeastern University.
Vox
The horrifying rape case roiling France, explained
“While there is still perhaps more skepticism in France than in the US about the legitimacy of sexual assault and sexual harassment, these attitudes are changing fast, especially as a younger generation of women and French feminists and their male allies … are willing to confront these issues head-on,” Laura Frader, a professor of history […]
Grist Magazine
Hurricanes are personal for this disaster researcher
Grist spoke with Aldrich, now a professor of political science at Northeastern University, about his post-disaster experience, how climate shocks like hurricanes affect voters, and how Americans’ expectations of how the federal government should respond to a disaster have changed over time.
Al Jazeera
Did Harris win the debate or did Trump lose it?
“In the first debate, while Biden was mainly the agent of his own destruction, Trump did help by sitting back, staying calm, and staying largely on-message,” Nick Beauchamp, a political science professor at Northeastern University whose work includes modelling political debates, told Al Jazeera.
France 24
In the zone: Harris conducted debate on her turf, effective at ‘drawing out Trump’s worst qualities’
Following a fiery debate that saw Harris dominate an extremely combative exchange, FRANCE 24’s Nadia Massih is joined by Alan Schroeder, Author, former Diplomat, and Professor Emeritus in the School of Journalism at Northeastern University.