Hilary Duff is headed to Fenway — not for a concert, but to send off the Class of 2026. Northeastern University announced the actress and pop star as this year’s commencement speaker in a social media video featuring school mascot Paws.

Landsmark, 79, is hardly taking a step back from civic service. That’s on top of his position at Northeastern University, where he’s a distinguished professor of public policy and urban affairs.

Northeastern University announced actor and singer-songwriter Hilary Duff as its 2026 undergraduate commencement speaker in a Y2K-themed social media post on Wednesday.

Republicans should be “very concerned” about these numbers, Costas Panagopoulos, professor of political science at Northeastern University, told Newsweek.

This is an example of modeling, says Rachel Rodgers, PhD, an associate professor of psychology at Northeastern University. Modeling is the idea that a child notices and internalizes a parent’s behavior and then recreates it themselves—whether that behavior is healthy or not.

Live Nation would cap service fees at 15 percent of the ticket price at just a handful of venues and divest from a few others; it would let competitors have access to its back-end ticketing technology, though John Kwoka, a leading antitrust economist, told me that’s like competing against Amazon products on Amazon.com.

Along with researchers at Northeastern University and Columbia University, Stephens analyzed how BP, Exxon, Shell, and the French oil giant Total Energies discussed solar, wind, and other sustainable energy sources in their annual reports from 2016 through 2022. 

Hilary C. Robinson is an associate professor of law and sociology at Northeastern University.

Costas Panagopoulos, a political science professor at Northeastern University, told Newsweek: “Donald Trump often says one thing one day, and a different thing on a different day. 

“But sometimes we need to make sense of senseless murder,” says James Alan Fox, a research professor of criminology at Northeastern University.

Jill Abramson, a former executive editor of The New York Times, teaches journalism at Northeastern University and is a contributing Globe Opinion writer.

Youly Diamanti-Karanou, PhD, an assistant teaching professor in the international affairs program at Northeastern University, mom of three, and presbytera (priest’s wife), encourages bringing kids into the kitchen to help make traditional foods.