“A generation ago, you didn’t have all these energy drinks,” so people didn’t grow up learning about safe caffeine consumption the way they may have done for alcohol, Darin Detwiler, a food-policy expert at Northeastern University, told me.

Nonetheless, it’s “a very significant finding from both a legal and political perspective,” Zinaida Miller, a Professor of Law at Northeastern University, tells TIME. She adds that it will most likely increase international pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to curb the ongoing Israel-Hamas war

Separately, a cohort of Northeastern University scholars will research slavery’s longstanding legacy through inequality within the Boston Public Schools, Boston Police Department, Boston Fire Department, and Boston Housing Authority in the era after 1940.

Panelists included Dava Davin, CEO of Portside Real Estate Group: Denis Garriepy, chief operating officer at Landry/French Construction; Chris Mallett, chief administrative officer at Northeastern University’s Roux Institute; Maine Bankers Association President Jim Roche; and Kierston Van Soest, CFO of L.L.Bean.

In an age when upward mobility largely defines the sport, Coen has found peace and purpose at Northeastern for close to two decades. He has followed the blueprint of his college coach, Tom Murphy, who is on his staff as coordinator of basketball advancement. 

Christoph Riedl, associate professor of supply chain and information management systems at Northeastern University, called the study “absolutely plausible.” Riedl noted that it fits the pattern of other major innovations that only achieved their full potential many years after they were first invented.