Inside the Laboratory for Ocean Acoustics and Ecosystem Sensing at Northeastern University, researchers showed Beaudet the equipment they use to analyze sounds in the ocean.

The in-person festival will be followed by another five days of online screenings for those who couldn’t make it out to movies at the Museum of Fine Arts, Northeastern University’s Blackman Auditorium and Dudley Street’s historic Hibernian Hall.

“The information hadn’t reached them yet,” said Kabria Baumgartner, associate professor of History and Africana Studies and associate director of Public History at Northeastern University.

“The building trades … are one of the largest groups representing men who have pursued their careers without a college degree,” said Harris, now a law professor at Northeastern University in Boston.

“There’s a real history of forgetting, especially in the United States,” said Sara Jensen Carr, an architect at Northeastern University who studies the connection between design and health.

“Hate and hurt have been constants of the human condition,” said Dan Lebowitz, executive director of the Center for the Study of Sport in Society at Northeastern University, which has played a leading role in the effort to curb discrimination in Massachusetts schools.

Seth Harris, a law and policy professor at Northeastern University who served as President Joe Biden’s top labor policy adviser, said progress on heat safety at UPS could have broader ripple effects.

Family mass killings immediately capture the attention of people in a community, but rarely garner the level of national attention received by mass killings at schools, places of worship or restaurants, said James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University who has studied familicides and mass killings for decades. 

Sean Gallagher, executive director of the Center for the Future of Higher Education and Talent Strategy at Northeastern University, noted that online enrollment is booming—as is competition among the institutions that cater to it.

Ms. Brothers is a professor at Northeastern University and the author of “Giuliano da Sangallo and the Ruins of Rome” (Princeton).

AI technology is moving so fast that it will be hard to measure the impact it will have on jobs, said Northeastern University Professor Christoph Riedl.