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Nearly 500 People Have Been Killed in School Shootings Since Columbine

It’s important to put the numbers into perspective, so people understand that rampage attacks like Columbine are not common, according to James Alan Fоx, a criminologist at Northeastern University who has been researching gun violence for decades.
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Citizenship privilege harms science

Article co-written by Tiffany Joseph, an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, and in the Interntional Affairs Program, at Northeastern University.
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A ‘Ghost Lake’ in California Has Disappeared for the Fifth Time Since 1890

“Most of the news coverage about this time talked about it as catastrophic flooding,” Vivian Underhill, a former researcher fellow at Northeastern University, said in a statement to the school’s news division.
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25 years after Columbine shooting, schools are safe despite public perception of danger

Op-ed by James Alan Fox, Lipman professor of Criminology, Law and Public Policy at Northeastern University and author of “Violence and Security on Campus: From Preschool through College.”
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Playing God With the Atmosphere

Reports that cloud seeding caused this week’s flooding were likely erroneous, but the reaction they inspired “represents a healthy kind of skepticism about what happens when we interfere with natural systems,” Laura Kuhl, a public-policy professor at Northeastern University who studies climate adaptation, told me. 

Coming soon: towers and a shopping plaza over the Pike in Back Bay

Ted Landsmark, director of the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University, joins Radio Boston to discuss the Parcel 12 project.
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Donald Trump Scores Win on Abortion

However, Costas Panagopoulos, a political science professor at Northeastern University, cautioned that polling estimates “can frequently appear to bounce around somewhat even if real change is elusive.”
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NPR needs a serious critique not a politically charged parting shot

He also made some shaky arguments that undercut his musings and seemed intended to signal his readiness to having his words weaponized by the right wing of American politics and media. Dan Kennedy of Northeastern University eloquently critiqued Berliner’s complaints about “Russiagate”, Hunter Biden’s laptop and the origins of the Covid pandemic.
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5 more jurors needed in Karen Read murder trial after two days of questioning

“You pretty much have to be living under a rock or not in Boston to not have heard of the Karen Read case. So the question is, you’ll find people who are familiar with the case but at least have the ability or claim to have the ability to keep an open mind,” said Daniel […]
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How Cloud Seeding Works and Why It’s Wrongly Blamed for Floods From Dubai to California

In a publication for the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Laura Kuhl, a public policy professor at Northeastern University, argues that cloud seeding may do “more harm than good” due to these uncertainties and because, given its limited effectiveness, it promotes a sense of “techno-optimism” that “can obscure deeper structural drivers of vulnerability like unsustainable water use and […]
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15-foot-tall flower statues to bloom on Northeastern’s campus

The Cambridge-based artist behind the sculptures considers herself a nature lover, and through a partnership with Northeastern, wanted to make something that felt connected to the surrounding natural elements while tying into the university’s horticultural department. 
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What toilets can reveal about COVID, cancer and other health threats

There’s a “false sense of precision” in such estimates, says Sam Scarpino, an epidemiologist at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, who has worked on COVID-19 data systems.