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AI Is a Black Box. Anthropic Figured Out a Way to Look Inside
A team led by David Bau of Northeastern University has worked on a system to identify and edit facts within an open source LLM.
‘This is a marathon, not a sprint’: For Boston reparations task force, redress is a work in progress
In a second team commissioned by the task force, a cohort of Northeastern University scholars is researching slavery’s longstanding legacy, in the era after 1940, through inequality within the Boston Public Schools, Boston Police Department, Boston Fire Department, and Boston Housing Authority.
GBH
How to get a job in biotech without going to college
After her initial training, Ella Show moved to an internship in a lab at Northeastern University ‘s Life Sciences Testing Center.
WCVB TV
Drugs advertised as alternatives to Ozempic, Wegovy posing health risks
“There is no generic for these drugs,” said Northeastern University Professor of Pharmacy Law, Kelly Ann Barnes.
European leaders divided on ICC arrest warrant bid for Netanyahu
According to Professor Zinaida Miller, an international law expert at Northeastern University, the ICC’s decision to apply for the arrest warrants suggests a degree of certainty that the applications will succeed.
The US food industry has long buried the truth about their products. Is that coming to an end?
Today, UPFs make up 73% of the US food supply, according to Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute, and provide the average US adult with more than 60% of their daily calories. But research is increasingly linking UPFs to a whole host of health issues: from cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes to colorectal cancer and depression.
Slate
What Are Presidential Debates For?
Guest: Alan Schroeder, Professor Emeritus at the Northeastern University School of Journalism with a focus on presidential elections, author of Presidential Debates: Risky Business on the Campaign Trail.
Linguist Reveals the Secret Behind Trending US Baby Names
Linguist Adam Cooper, a professor at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, says that it may be down to the way these names roll off our tongues. Specifically, these popular names tend to avoid “hard stops.”
Taiwan’s Digital Minister Has an Ambitious Plan to Align Tech With Democracy
At a panel discussion at Northeastern University in Boston, 20-year-old student Diane Grant is visibly moved, describing Tang’s talk as the best she’s been to in her undergraduate career.
Ensuring International Students’ Career Success
Sherry Wang, is Chinese-Canadian, and ventured to the United States for postsecondary studies. She, too, was able to overcome challenges of new environments and leverage her cultural experience in the three countries to support Northeastern University students in both the Boston and Vancouver global campuses.
The Daily Beast
This Accused Murderer Has Superfans Bankrolling Her Defense
Dr. Molly Buchanan, an associate criminology professor at Northeastern University, said that pro-Read followers “are largely drawn to the puzzle of it all; trying to piece details together or trying to fill in the blank spaces when the puzzle pieces simply aren’t fitting well or facts aren’t adding up.”
After $600,000 of sand washed away in days, a new plan arises for Salisbury Beach: Add more sand
With this in mind, the focus should be on the “cost-benefit ratio” of a plan with a set timescale, said Jim Chen, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern University.