“We have entered an era of extreme partisanship where this is unsurprising and pleases the base, especially in the House of Representatives,” said Daniel Urman, a Northeastern University professor with expertise in constitutional law.

Now the auditors, who included researchers from the University of Connecticut and Northeastern University, say they believe the problem is widespread.

A 2022 study from Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute estimated 73 percent of the United States food supply is ultra-processed.

Darin Detwiler, professor of food safety and corporate social responsibility at Northeastern University, says the grocery chain’s proactive approach is a positive sign.

There have been 34 mass killings in which four or more victims are killed in 2023 according to a database by USA TODAY, The Associated Press and Northeastern University. 

The new research is at a very early stage, but it is an important step to understanding and treating the disease, said Kim Lewis, a Lyme expert and a professor of biology at Northeastern University in Boston.

Examples include Northeastern University Roux Institute’s employer partnerships, which aim to grow the Portland, Maine economy; semiconductor developer Wolfspeed’s partnerships in North Carolina and New York; and Amazon’s HQ2’s higher education investments in Virginia.

Aspen K. Hopkins of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; David Bau of Northeastern University; and Fernanda Viégas, Hanspeter Pfister and Martin Wattenberg, all at Harvard—spun up their own smaller copy of the GPT neural network so they could study its inner workings.

Certificate programs have been around for decades, but they have “become much more popular in terms of university offerings and student demand, and those two things are responding to each other,” said Sean R. Gallagher, a professor of educational policy at Northeastern University. 

According to a study conducted by a team of researchers from City University of New York, Stanford, Dartmouth, Northeastern University, and University of Exeter, YouTube algorithmic recommendations do not necessarily funnel users through radicalizing rabbit holes, “possibly due to changes that the company made to its recommender system in 2019.”

The recent string of Trader Joe’s recalls are primarily related to physical contamination, instead of pathogens or “any type of intentional sabotage or intent,” according to Darin Detwiler, LPD, a food safety advocate and professor of food policy and corporate social responsibility at Northeastern University.

 That increase in demand will help unemployment rates across the board, said Robert Triest, chair and professor of economics at Northeastern University.