Find coverage of Northeastern University in the press.
Failed Graceland sale by a mystery entity highlights attempts to take assets of older or dead people
Who would target it with a scheme that “fell apart with the first email and phone call, or internet search,” and what holes in the legal system let it got closer to the auction block than it should have, should be the focuses of the attorney general, said Nikos Passas, a Northeastern University criminology and […]
WCVB TV
Mass. doctor on new study linking cognitive decline to ‘ultraprocessed foods’
A new study is once again raising questions about ultra processed foods and its link to a higher risk of cognitive decline and stroke.
TechCrunch
Women in AI: Sarah Myers West says we should ask, ‘Why build AI at all?’
Sarah Myers West is managing director at the AI Now Institute, an American research institute studying the social implications of AI and policy research that addresses the concentration of power in the tech industry. She is a visiting research scientist at Northeastern University, as well as a research contributor at Cornell’s Citizens and Technology Lab.
Today
A teacher’s hack for getting kids excited for math went viral. Experts explain why it works
Charles Hillman, PhD, a professor of psychology at Northeastern University with expertise in neurocognitive kinesiology, agrees: “I think the idea that they get kids moving in the middle of the class day, there’s no way it’s not beneficial.”
People with commonly autocorrected names call for tech firms to fix problem
Rashmi Dyal-Chand, a professor at Northeastern University in the US whose name is sometimes corrected to Sashimi, is supporting the latest campaign and said: “For people with names like mine, autocorrect is not convenient and helpful. It is unhelpful. And yes – it is harmful.”
Man charged with murder in fatal shooting at Pennsylvania linen company
Mass killings, as defined by a tracker from USA TODAY, Northeastern University, and the Associated Press, include incidents in which four or more people, excluding the offender, are killed within a 24-hour time frame. There have been 15 such killings in 2024, according to the tracker.
Self Magazine
Is It Safe to Eat Chicken That’s a Little Bit Pink?
Some chicken that might look kinda pink might actually be completely cooked, while others might appear in the clear may not be at all, Darin Detwiler, PhD, an associate teaching professor of food policy at Northeastern University, tells SELF.
DOJ and states sue Live Nation, could seek breakup of company
Northeastern University law professor John Kwoka, who advised state attorneys general on the 2010 investigation, said simply separating the two companies is not enough.
Government sues Ticketmaster owner and asks court to break up company’s monopoly on live events
And it’s something that rips customers off every day,” said John Kwoka, a professor of economics at Northeastern University who was also a consultant for the states that ran a 2009 investigation in parallel with the Justice Department into Live Nation and Ticketmaster’s original merger.
I went a week without ultra-processed foods. Here’s what I learned
But I do take time to browse Northeastern University’s UPF database, TrueFood, a handy tool I found invaluable for looking up most grocery store products throughout the week. Although all plant-based milks are technically ultra-processed, there are many that rank as much less processed on the website’s scoring system.
What Scarlett Johansson v. OpenAI Could Look Like in Court
“It was a boneheaded move,” says David Herlihy, a copyright lawyer and music industry professor at Northeastern University. “A miscalculation.”
Semafor
United Nations court delivers rare climate win to small island states
“The Caribbean islands are essentially a microcosm of the challenges we’re all facing,” said the director of Northeastern University’s Global Resilience Institute.