The project, which secured funding from the Patriots Foundation, is also getting help from Northeastern University and the Boston Public Library to create online biographies for the women.

“You really need a source of news and information for a community, because that’s how you keep up on what’s going on on local schools, the council, the select board,” said Dan Kennedy, a professor at Northeastern University’s School of Journalism, co-host of a podcast, “What Works: The Future of Local News, and co-author of “What Works in […]

“I don’t think there’s anyway you can overcome his presence even if he is physically not on the stage,” said Alan Schroeder, professor emeritus at Northeastern University’s school of journalism, and an expert on presidential debates. “I think he’ll dominate.”

By Max Abrahms, Professor of Political Science at Northeastern University.

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

“It’s a very effective sales tool for the Teamsters and other unions organizing in the logistics industry and beyond,” said Seth Harris, a law and policy professor at Northeastern University who was President Joe Biden’s top labor policy adviser until last year.

If a user asks Google to decide whether a photo is of a cat or a dog, a less energy-intensive model that is 96 percent accurate, instead of 98 percent, might suffice, Devesh Tiwari, an engineer at Northeastern University, has shown. 

“Vivek was definitely the piñata of this debate. I mean he was taking incoming from every direction,” said Alan Schroeder, professor emeritus at Northeastern University’s school of journalism, and an expert on presidential debates.

NovoBiotic Pharmaceuticals, founded by professors Kim Lewis and Slava Epstein from Northeastern University in Boston, has been tapping into that pool by collecting micro-organisms from soil samples, mimicking their natural environment in specially designed chambers, and so cultivating “domesticated” variants capable of growing in the lab.

And some people just like to be right, me included. “Who doesn’t want to be right? It feels so good,” says Heidi Kevoe-Feldman, associate professor of communication studies at Northeastern University.

“You really need a source of news and information for a community, because that’s how you keep up on what’s going on on local schools, the council, the select board,” said Dan Kennedy, a professor at Northeastern University’s School of Journalism, co-host of a podcast, “What Works: The Future of Local News, and co-author of “What Works in […]

Detwiler, now an assistant teaching professor of food policy at Northeastern University, said his son’s death changed the trajectory of his life — and his work.