“Music can produce shared allegiances and feelings of unity. In times of extreme crisis, people turn to the music that they most need as an attempt to stabilize their emotions [so they can] continue and persist,” says Murray Forman, professor of Media & Screen Studies at Northeastern University in Boston. 

Tick follows Fitzgerald through her years with Chick Webb’s orchestra, subsequent tours with Jazz at the Philharmonic, and collaborations with numerous fellow icons such as Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, Nelson Riddle, and Count Basie. A former music history professor at Northeastern University, Tick writes authoritatively about the various subgenres that Fitzgerald dips into and out […]

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The United States had 39 mass shootings in 2023 so far, according to a database maintained by the Associated Press, USA Today and Northeastern University, which defines a mass shooting as one in which at least four people are killed, not including the shooter.

Furthermore, explains Maria Ivanova, director of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Northeastern University, the concept of limiting warming to two degrees significantly predated the Paris Agreement. 

Laura Edelson, an assistant professor of computer science at Northeastern University, likened this scholarship to efforts to understand the automobile. “The early cars were wildly unsafe, and we needed to study them and figure out how to make them safer,” she said. “This is why science exists, so we can both have these important things […]

Jennie C. Stephens is Dean’s professor of sustainability science and policy, Northeastern University. 

“Those are the ones who are the most likely to become sick enough to be taken to the hospital,” said Dr. Darin Detwiler, a professor of food policy and corporate social responsibility at Northeastern University and author of ”Food Safety: Past, Present, and Predictions.”

A report by Storybench, a publication by Northeastern’s journalism school, found that news articles from mainstream publications used a smaller percentage of positive words in stories about the female candidate’s campaigns — and used more words associated with their scandals. 

Her unique career makes it difficult to slap a simple, straightforward label that puts her “in a box” or defines her as a feminist, said Wendy Parmet, a Northeastern University law professor, who co-authored a 1999 Indiana Law Review study of O’Connor’s legacy on women’s rights issues.

“Smaller competitors, typically, are the one that breaks ranks,” said John Kwoka, an economics professor at Northeastern University and an antitrust expert who has advised states and the Justice Department on airline mergers. 

George G. Adams is College of Engineering Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Northeastern University.