A new immigration court is set to open in Mass. Will it help the immense backlog of cases? Hemanth C. Gundavaram, cofounder and director of the Immigrant Justice Clinic at Northeastern University School of Law, agreed.
China’s Russia Support Strategy China Watcher spoke to Jonathan Benda, a professor in the Writing Program at Northeastern University who’s researching Kerr’s Taiwan experiences and wrote the foreword to the book’s latest edition, about how 2/28 still haunts the island’s relations with both Washington and Beijing.
Fact-check: Can cold weather actually make you sick? Well, one legacy of the COVID pandemic was the popularisation of one important device for fending off these pesky germs: a face mask. “One thing we’ve found, which is something we’re already doing in many parts of the world, is wearing a mask. Even though COVID-19 has decreased and the concerns are not as significant,” Mansoor […]
Alabama Says Embryos in a Lab Are Children. What Are the Implications? Not imminently, legal experts predicted. The clinic would have to appeal the decision, a move that could be risky, said Katherine L. Kraschel, an expert on reproductive law at Northeastern University School of Law.
Half of College Grads Are Working Jobs That Don’t Use Their Degrees Nearly all undergrads at Northeastern University in Boston complete at least one six-month internship. Six months after graduation, 91% of working graduates report having jobs related to their major, according to the school’s most recent data.
Readers Have a Lot of Questions About AI. We Answer Them. But there are big downsides. For one thing, AIs don’t think in the way humans do. “This thing is not intelligence. It has no understanding of what it’s saying,” Usama Fayyad, executive director of the Institute for Experiential AI at Northeastern University, told the Wall Street Journal’s “The Future or Everything” podcast this month.
STAT News Florida policy set amid measles outbreak alarms vaccination proponents Wendy Parmet, director of the Center for Health Policy and Law at Northeastern University School of Law, said she doesn’t recall seeing a senior state health official tell parents they can ignore a measles control policy before.
TechCrunch Women in AI: Rashida Richardson, senior counsel at Mastercard focusing on AI and privacy Formerly the director of policy research at the AI Now Institute, the research institute studying the social implications of AI, and a senior policy advisor for data and democracy at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Richardson has been an assistant professor of law and political science at Northeastern University since 2021.
WAMU The high-carbon lifestyles of the rich and famous Jennie Stephens: professor of Sustainability Science and Policy, Northeastern University, climate justice fellow, Harvard Radcliffe; Author, “Diversifying Power: Why We Need Antiracist, Feminist Leadership on Climate and Energy”
AT&T cellphone outage leaves 1.7 million users without service for hours “It most likely seems like a software update gone wrong,” said Northeastern University professor Josep Jornet said, adding that the update probably worked on some hardware and not others.
‘Fighting the good fight for decades’: Retired judge Julian Houston has long pushed to help youth He sought to help Black people who wanted to serve in law enforcement or the courts, forming the George Lewis Ruffin Society at Northeastern University in 1984. The society organized courses to prep Boston police officers of color for preparatory exams starting in 1985, the biography says.
