“It has been a huge boon to the journalism,” said Dan Kennedy, a Northeastern University professor. The Times says it has about 3,000 journalists on staff, its most ever and more than twice what it had a decade ago.

There are a handful of schools that build internships or what’s known as cooperative education into the undergraduate curriculum — including Northeastern University, Drexel University, and the University of Cincinnati — so that workplace experience can be structurally part of earning an undergraduate degree. But, for now at least, they remain very much exceptions.

Even the polyester clothes people keep can leach microplastics into the environment when they’re washed, said Aron Stubbins, a professor of marine and environmental sciences at Northeastern University.

Northeastern University PhD candidate Nail Bashan wanted to better understand how air pollution exposure changes over time in different locations.

Alongside these social pressures, “wages for American males have stagnated, while opportunities for women in the workforce have expanded—both of these channels reduce fertility,” Mindy Marks, a professor of economics, at Northeastern University, told Newsweek.

Kabria Baumgartner, Africana studies professor at Northeastern University, urges her students to return to King’s own writing, not just “I Have a Dream,” but also his speeches on poverty and income inequality because “his words resonate deeply in our current moment.”

Jill Abramson, a former executive editor of The New York Times, teaches journalism at Northeastern University and is a contributing Globe Opinion writer.

Lisa Feldman-Barrett is a neuroscientist and a professor at Northeastern University. Her latest book is Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain.

As college sports becomes an even bigger business, with haves and have-nots, it makes sense that lesser-known players toiling at smaller academic institutions might want to cash in, says Dan Lebowitz, executive director of the Center for the Study of Sport in Society at Northeastern University.

Deborah Ramirez is co-director of the Center for Law, Equity and Race at Northeastern University School of Law.

The specific date of the twins’ birth does not appear in any surviving document. Daniel Swift, associate professor of English at Northeastern University London, states that “this is perfectly normal for the Elizabethan period,” which considered baptisms more “significant” than births.

Use cicmap.ai, a U.S. map of AI undergraduate degree programs developed by Professors Felix Muzny and Carla Brodley and the Northeastern’s Center for Inclusive Computing (CIC), to identify AI credential gaps in your region.