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Supreme Court Abruptly Changes Schedule

Dan Urman, a law professor specializing in the U.S. Supreme Court at Northeastern University, previously told Newsweek that it was not unexpected for the court to add order days, given the amount of cases before them, adding that the “justices would like to be finished with the term by the end of June and probably want to […]
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Arkansas mass shooting appears to have been a ‘random’ act, police say

The grocery-store shooting was the 12th mass shooting in the United States this year, according to a database compiled by Northeastern University, the Associated Press and USA Today. 
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How Biden is getting ready for his high-stakes debate with Trump

But Trump took a more restrained tack in the second debate in 2020 — and that makes preparation for Biden a bit unpredictable, said Alan Schroeder, a professor at Northeastern University who’s written a history of presidential debates. “You don’t know which one you’ll get,” Schroeder said.
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Music Festival Chaos: Inside the Deadly Risks at Concerts

“The tone of the festival, the attitude of the people that go there, that starts at the top,” Dr. Andrew Mall, a music industry scholar at Northeastern University, told Newsweek. “So festival organizers have a responsibility. They are partly able to kind of set the tone, set the expectations for how people behave.”
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Are you 80% angry and 2% sad? Why ‘emotional AI’ is fraught with problems

Lisa Feldman Barrett is a professor of psychology at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, and in 2019 she and four other scientists came together with a simple question: can we accurately infer emotions from facial movements alone? 
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CNN Newsroom With Fredricka Whitfield

CNN speaks with Allen Schroeder, professor emeritus at Northeastern University.
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Orono startup gets $1M grant for development of ocean-friendly packaging

While the company has its office in Orono’s village commercial district, the prototyping lab is in Portland at the Roux Institute of Northeastern University, where the company is participating in a founder residency program that wraps up in August.
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Presidential Debate Prep Ramps Up, Focused on Mental Sharpness

Alan Schroeder, professor emeritus of journalism at Northeastern University, sees some risk in the less formal approach for Trump, who like Biden has not debated in four years after eschewing face-offs with his Republican primary challengers.

About This Project

At the outset of the project, FRONTLINE forged a relationship with Northeastern University’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) a mission-driven program of interdisciplinary teaching, research and policy analysis on race, history and criminal justice. 
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Instagram showing sexual Reels to teens, claims report

The Wall Street Journal and a researcher from Northeastern University conducted tests over seven months that revealed alarming results.
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We should lament the demise of philosophy departments

Brian Ball is AI and information ethics research lead and former head of faculty in philosophy at Northeastern University London. Patrycja Kaszynska is a senior research fellow at the University of the Arts London and a research affiliate at Northeastern University London.
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Instagram Recommends Sexual Videos to Teen Accounts, Research Shows

Professor Laura Edelson of Northeastern University, who conducted the research, said in an emailed statement that Instagram’s moderation efforts were “not working,” adding that, “Whatever TikTok is doing, on the other hand, is working.”