Philadelphia Inquirer While the Kelces face off in the Super Bowl, local siblings are quietly competing all the time The Kents, like the Lynches and the Leaks, grew up as athletic competitors, “the marker of truly engaged sibling relationships that brings fun and satisfaction,” according to Laurie Kramer, a psychology professor at Northeastern University.
Knowridge Science Report Scientists find new way to prevent the common cold The samples were divided and cultured in Amiji’s Northeastern lab at the normal body temperature of 37 degrees Celsius as well as at 32 degrees Celsius, which is the plummeting temperature of the nasal pathway when people are outdoors in cold weather.
The Boston Herald Robbins: Nichols’ killing another outrage for Black America “For me,” wrote Professor Deborah Ramirez, of the Northeastern University School of Law’s Center for Law, Equity and Race, “the heroine in this tragedy is RowVaughn Wells, Tyre Nichols’ mom.
Today Dad reflects on son’s death from E. coli: Don’t assume food is always safe Article by Darin Detwiler, LP.D., an associate teaching professor of food policy at Northeastern University. After his son died of E.coli poisoning in 1993, he consulted with the U.S. Department of Agriculture to strengthen food safety policies. He continues to raise awareness about food safety, fight to stop foodborne disease and push for reform. Detwiler […]
Hundreds of ready-to-eat foods are recalled over possible listeria contamination The extra risk with ready-to-eat food is that “people are not going to take a kill step,” like cooking, which would kill dangerous bacteria, says Darin Detwiler, a professor of food policy at Northeastern University.
The American Prospect What Could Chill Heat Pumps Article by Joan Fitzgerald is a professor of public policy and urban affairs at Northeastern University and the author of ‘Greenovation: Urban Leadership on Climate Change.’
The virus threat is easing, but US hospitals are still as full as ever Samuel Scarpino, director of AI and life sciences at Northeastern University, says it’s a “perfect storm” of issues: Covid-19 and the ongoing infection control measures that hospitals have to keep in place, a backlog of other patients with a delayed need for acute care, and work force burnout three years into a pandemic.
The Associated Press Internet evidence key, but not enough in no-body murder case There is legal precedent in Massachusetts of securing a murder conviction even when the victim’s remains are never found, and the internet searches could help overcome the lack of a body, Northeastern University School of Law professor Daniel Medwed said.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty How Kyrgyzstan ‘Has Slid Towards Autocracy’ Joining host Bruce Pannier to discuss the dramatic events unfolding in Kyrgyzstan are… Bakyt Beshimov, a former member of Kyrgyzstan’s parliament and a former ambassador to the OSCE who currently teaches at Northeastern University.
Stolen Guns Are Fueling Violent Crime in the US A 2017 study by researchers at Northeastern University and Harvard found that people with a lot of guns are those most likely to lose them. “Risk factors for having a gun stolen were owning 6 or more guns, owning guns for protection, carrying a gun in the past month, storing guns unsafely, and living in […]
The Telegraph The man trying to save the world from toxic conspiracy theories Another study – involving 16,442 Twitter accounts in the period around the 2016 US election, and led by David Lazer, professor of political science at Northeastern University, Boston – suggests that the proportion of people actually spreading fake news is quite small.
Voice of America Gun Violence Puts Young Americans at Risk “We have to find out a mechanism that will make a family member see they need to step in” and try to stop a relative who might pose a threat of gun violence, said Northeastern University criminology professor emeritus Jack McDevitt.
