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Biden, Trump have debated before, but now the men and politics are vastly different

“I always like to watch how the candidates treat one another,” said Alan Schroeder, a professor emeritus of journalism at Northeastern University who has written several books about presidential debates.
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Jordan’s boss Eliot Tatelman hands out 1,000 free bikes to city kids — plus a life lesson or two

ARPA-H director Renee Wegrzyn visited Boston last week to speak at a summit on public health technology at Northeastern University. 
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Jury deliberations are coming up in Karen Read’s murder trial. These are the possible outcomes.

“The defense has done a great job of making robust objections and engaging in terrific cross-examinations,” said Daniel Medwed, a criminal law professor at Northeastern University. “That should ‘preserve’ many viable issues for appeal. The success rate on appeal, however, is low in general.” 
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What is gender-affirming vocal care? The medical field helping trans and nonbinary people find their voice

However, there is a large amount of variability in voice. “Everyone’s voice is unique,” AC Goldberg, Ph.D., visiting assistant clinical professor at Northeastern University and the founder of the CREDIT Institute, tells TODAY.com.
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Presidential Debates in History That Moved the Needle

The first debate between Kennedy and Nixon is considered one of the most significant because it entrenched the idea that appearances are an important part of presidential campaigns, says Alan Schroeder, a professor of journalism at Northeastern University. The debate is considered the first nationally televised presidential debate in history.
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“The attempt to control that, I think, is a good thing,” Alan Schroeder, a professor emeritus of journalism at Northeastern University who has written several books about presidential debates, told ABC News. “I don’t know in practice how that will work.”
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How NOT To Write Your College Essay

Liz Cheron is chief executive officer for the Coalition for College and former assistant vice president of enrollment & dean of admissions at Northeastern University. She agrees saying “Don’t put pressure on yourself to find the perfect, slam dunk topic.”
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Supreme Court Abruptly Changes Schedule

Dan Urman, a law professor specializing in the U.S. Supreme Court at Northeastern University, previously told Newsweek that it was not unexpected for the court to add order days, given the amount of cases before them, adding that the “justices would like to be finished with the term by the end of June and probably want to […]
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Arkansas mass shooting appears to have been a ‘random’ act, police say

The grocery-store shooting was the 12th mass shooting in the United States this year, according to a database compiled by Northeastern University, the Associated Press and USA Today. 
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How Biden is getting ready for his high-stakes debate with Trump

But Trump took a more restrained tack in the second debate in 2020 — and that makes preparation for Biden a bit unpredictable, said Alan Schroeder, a professor at Northeastern University who’s written a history of presidential debates. “You don’t know which one you’ll get,” Schroeder said.
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Music Festival Chaos: Inside the Deadly Risks at Concerts

“The tone of the festival, the attitude of the people that go there, that starts at the top,” Dr. Andrew Mall, a music industry scholar at Northeastern University, told Newsweek. “So festival organizers have a responsibility. They are partly able to kind of set the tone, set the expectations for how people behave.”
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Are you 80% angry and 2% sad? Why ‘emotional AI’ is fraught with problems

Lisa Feldman Barrett is a professor of psychology at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, and in 2019 she and four other scientists came together with a simple question: can we accurately infer emotions from facial movements alone?