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Business books: what to read this month
Most of us have a lot to learn about how our jobs will be shaped by artificial intelligence. David De Cremer, dean of D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University, has a sobering message for those in charge: don’t forget that it is you, rather than the technology, that needs to lead.
Computer science students must be taught to consider social effects
In many ways, there has never been a better time to lead a college of computer science. At Northeastern University’s Khoury College of Computer Sciences, where I have been dean since 2022, our student body has tripled in the past decade and enrolments are still soaring, while the gender gap is shrinking. We see great enthusiasm for careers in this dynamic, challenging field.
Republican Fact-Checked About Crime Under Joe Biden During Interview
Criminologists and experts have weighed in on the findings, with Northeastern University criminologist James Alan Fox telling the Tampa Bay Times earlier this month, “Biden’s statement about violent crime is absolutely true. Despite a spike in murder in 2020 amidst the emergence of COVID, even homicides have declined.”
The complicated history of school choice in Boston
Northeastern University professor Dan O’Brien, one of that report’s authors, came to see the uneven distribution of high-quality schools in the district as the “unsolvable problem” at the heart of the district’s various experiments in school choice.
Al Jazeera
Hunter Biden convicted on gun charges: Will he go to jail?
Costas Panagopoulos, head of Northeastern University’s Department of Political Science, said in an interview with the university’s news website that Hunter Biden’s and Trump’s convictions reinforce that the US judicial system is working under President Biden, contradicting Trump’s allegation that it is rigged.
Top investigator in Karen Read murder case questioned over inappropriate texts
“The texts are appalling and wildly unprofessional, to put it mildly, and it’s hard to imagine they won’t hurt the prosecution’s case in the eyes of the jury,” Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University who is not involved in the case, told The Associated Press.
Child Marriage Havens Emerging Across America
And opponents to child marriage bans view it as a solution to teenage pregnancy, according to Hayat Bearat, interim director of the Domestic Violence Institute at Northeastern University, told Newsweek.
While women outnumber men on campus, their later earnings remain stuck
But Szoo had no doubt she would go to college, and she’s now a student at Northeastern University, studying chemical engineering and biochemistry.
Fake News Still Has a Home on Facebook
“It’s a cat-and-mouse game,” said David Lazer, a professor at Northeastern University who has studied disinformation. “Wherever there’s a loophole in enforcement, it’s going to be a place that activity will go.”
Mass Live
Over 1/3 of Boston public school valedictorians will go to this university
Thirteen Boston Public School valedictorians have committed to go to Northeastern University in the fall, keeping the school’s record for the most number of Boston schools valedictorians committing to the university.
How an American Dream of Housing Became a Reality in Sweden
As an architect, Ivan Rupnik thinks the solution to America’s affordable housing shortage is obvious: Build more houses.
Mass. sees largest decline in opioid-related deaths in more than a decade
Leo Beletsky, professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University and an addiction expert, said higher incarceration rates among Black men are a significant driver of overdoses. People who had been in prison are much more likely to overdose and die after their release, Beletsky said. Access to substance abuse treatment, including medication, also […]