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‘Working like a slave’: Why human trafficking in restaurants is underreported

Amy Farrell, director of the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University, said if regulators spent more time listening to workers and focusing on lower-level crimes, they could stop exploitation before it develops into trafficking.

How scientists trained computers to forecast COVID-19 outbreaks weeks ahead

That’s exactly what the team led by a Northeastern University computer scientist has done. In their bid to create an early-warning system for COVID-19 outbreaks, the study authors built a “machine learning” system capable of chewing through millions of digital traces, incorporating new local developments, refining its focus on accurate signals of illness, and generating timely notices […]
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Janet Echelman’s memorable 2015 piece wins Boston Society for Architecture’s Harleston Parker Medal

In 2024, Princeton Architectural Press will publish a book on Echelman’s work called “Radical Softness: The Responsive Sculpture of Janet Echelman,” edited by Gloria Sutton, an associate professor at Northeastern University.
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The Supreme Court wants state lawmakers to decide abortion. So far, it’s been courts and voters

One consequence of the Supreme Court’s ruling, said Martha Davis, a law professor at Northeastern University in Boston, is that the right to abortion will no longer be determined by one national Constitution but by varying interpretations of 50 state constitutions.
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The Maine Millennial: Looking at Portland’s racial disparity in arrests, and weighing what it means

As you’ve probably heard, a recent study conducted by the University of Southern Maine and Northeastern University found that 17% of Portland’s traffic arrests between 2018 and 2020 were traffic arrests of Black people, despite Black people making up only 5% of the city’s population.

Why Must We Go About Our Lives With an Eye on the Nearest Exit?

The visible presence of firearms increases the risk of violence and death when exercising one’s First Amendment rights,” Zick and Diana Palmer, a part-time lecturer at Northeastern University, write in The Atlantic.
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Scientists have come up with a new steel that is ultratough, yet stretchable

The team – from Northeastern University in Shenyang, Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science and Jiangyin Xingcheng Special Steel Works in eastern China, as well as the Max Planck Institute for Iron Research in Germany – published their findings in the peer-reviewed journal Science on Friday.
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Portland leaders get look at proposed zoning changes at B&M Baked Beans factory

The plan is to build a graduate school and research center as part of Northeastern University’s new and expanding Roux Institute.
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Citing increasingly toxic climate, Michelle Wu turns away from Twitter

Some cited Musk’s welcoming back of prominent purveyors of misinformation like Donald Trump, who had been tossed off the platform because of his role inciting the January 6 insurrection, while others, including Northeastern University journalism professor Dan Kennedy, have pointed to Musk’s own behavior.
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Enthusiasms: Making 5G look slow

Researchers at Northeastern University achieved a big leap in “terahertz” communications, sending a stream of data across 2 kilometers at speeds orders of magnitude faster than 5G. Terahertz describes an elusive part of the electromagnetic spectrum that scientists believe could power future generations of wireless technology, according to a paper published in Nature Electronics detailing […]
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Janet Malcolm, chronicler of psychiatry, shied away from self-analysis

Sebastian Stockman is a teaching professor in the English department at Northeastern University and the writer of an infrequent newsletter, “A Saturday Letter.”
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$5.6M in state funding to support Maine startups, entrepreneurs

Grant recipients include the Roux Institute at Northeastern University in Portland, ProsperityME, Coastal Enterprises Inc. and Fork Food Lab.