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US lawyer who put Big Tobacco on trial takes aim at sports betting
The case is funded by the Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI), a Boston-based advocacy group chaired by Professor Richard Daynard, who spearheaded litigation against the tobacco industry in the 1980s. DraftKings’ Boston headquarters are located a mile from Northeastern University, where Daynard teaches.
The Messenger
Researcher Discovers Possible Trove of New Stories by Louisa May Alcott
Academic Max Chapnick told The Guardian that he was searching for one of Alcott’s unknown works, “The Phantom,” when he found the story under the name EH Gould. Chapnick, a postdoctoral teaching associate in English at Northeastern University, at first thought it was a mistake, but then realized it could be one of Alcott’s pseudonyms.
Ella Fitzgerald, a Voice That Set the American Standard
Tick is a professor emerita of music history at Northeastern University whose books include a biography Ruth Crawford Seeger, the modernist composer who also happened to be Pete Seeger’s stepmother. She chronicles the slights and insults Fitzgerald faced as a Black woman on tour, especially in the South.
The Conversation
How I identified a probable pen name of Louisa May Alcott
Max Chapnick, Postdoctoral Teaching Associate in English, Northeastern University
Daily Mail
You MUST eat these five foods on the same day you cook or open them to avoid getting sick, hygiene experts warn
Dr Darin Detwiler, a food safety expert at Northeastern University in Boston and former FDA and USDA food safety advisor, told DailyMail.com that ‘cantaloupe should never be kept for an extra day in the fridge because pathogens like salmonella and listeria grow quickly.
CBC News
Israeli warplanes pound Gaza. A ground invasion is expected. Does Hamas have an endgame?
“[It] could intensify grievances against Israel, strengthening a revenge impact among the Palestinian population,” said Max Abrahms, an associate political science professor at Northeastern University in Boston, and an expert in international security, especially in the areas of terrorism and counterterrorism.
Nature.com
Climate loss-and-damage funding: how to get money to where it’s needed fast
By Laura Kuhl, Professor at Northeastern University.
‘Botticelli Drawings’ Review: A Master Painter’s Skills on Paper
Ms. Brothers is a professor at Northeastern University and the author of “Giuliano da Sangallo and the Ruins of Rome” (Princeton).
The Portland Press Herald
Roux Institute awarded nearly $1 million for clean energy incubator program
The Roux Institute, a part of Northeastern University, opened in Portland in 2020 as a graduate school and research center and has plans to expand its campus in the coming years.
Double mass shootings over weekend set grim U.S. record
The Washington Post calls a shooting in which four people are killed, excluding the shooter, a “mass killing with a gun,” because the term “mass shooting” has no universal definition. The database The Post uses is compiled by the Associated Press, USA Today and Northeastern University and dates to 2006. Learn more about mass killings here.
Washington Examiner
Biden admission about 2024 hesitancy fuels criticism of a ‘delusional’ campaign
While Biden announced presidential campaigns in 1988 and 2008 and has repeated how he promised his late son Beau he would contest the White House, Costas Panagopoulos, Northeastern University political science chairman and professor, concurred with Democrats that Joe Biden “may never have stepped forward if it were not for Trump in the first place.”
Mass. families watch as Supreme Court questions Sackler shield in Purdue’s opioid settlement
Leo Beletsky, a professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University, said he is concerned the high-profile bankruptcy case and the debate over financial accountability for the Sacklers have distracted from larger public policy issues, such as how to better regulate pharmaceutical companies and expand access to medications like naloxone that can prevent overdose deaths.