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Avoiding Curricular Pitfalls of Study Abroad

Liz Bucar is a professor of religion and Dean’s Leadership Fellow at Northeastern University and author of Stealing My Religion: Not Just Any Cultural Appropriation.
Fox Business

New college graduates greeted with best job market since 1953

Northeastern University students celebrate the conclusion of their school’s 121st undergraduate commencement at Fenway Park in Boston.
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2023 surge in mass shootings inspires new wave of activists to fight

The first 4½ months of 2023 have included 22 mass killings, more by this point in the year than in any other recent year, according to a database maintained by the Associated Press, Northeastern University and USA Today.
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Stretchy electronic skin responds to touch and pressure like real skin

“This is a clear demonstration: based on sensation, there were movements. And this is not a small thing, it’s quite challenging work to get the electronics to work well enough for this,” says Ravinder Dahiya at Northeastern University in Massachusetts. However, he says that the e-skin may need even more sophisticated circuity to be used in place […]
Mass Live

Mass. economy at a crawl in first quarter, but job market remains bright

“It could be worse, right,” said Alan Clayton-Matthews, senior contributing editor and professor emeritus of economics and public policy at Northeastern University. 
The Times UK

The new Oxbridge trick — go private then switch to state

“We’re seeing a huge growth market in American universities opening branches in Europe, including NYU and Northeastern University,” he says.

FDA shores up cybersecurity requirements for medical devices

Foundational requirements for resilient medical devices can be easily outlined, but “it really takes the industry to go the next mile and design and implement these systems,” said Kevin Fu, a computer science professor at Northeastern University and the FDA’s first acting director of medical device cybersecurity.

Supreme Court lets Illinois keep ban on sale of some semiautomatic guns for now

The high court’s action comes at a time when gun violence has been heavily in the news. Since the beginning of the year, 115 people have died in 22 mass killings — an average of one mass killing a week, according to a database maintained by The Associated Press and USA Today in a partnership […]
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The True Cost of a Free TV

“No one—not even Telly—can tell consumers what harms might befall them for the benefit of the company,” says David Choffnes, executive director of the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute at Northeastern University. 
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Tech startup Eskuad raises $1.65M to fund growth

“This is an exciting milestone for the company and will fuel our aspirations for operations and investment projects over the next two years during a time when the environment is complex,” said Max Echeverria, the company’s founder and CEO. Echeverria relocated the company to Portland from his native Chile after graduating from a tech startup accelerator based […]
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Harvard grad student planning to sue the MBTA must prove negligence first, legal analyst says

Northeastern University law professor and GBH legal analyst Daniel Medwed joined GBH’s Morning Edition co-hosts Paris Alston and Jeremy Siegel to discuss the case, and the laws that govern personal injury lawsuits against the transit agency.
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“The world’s largest Black group chat”: Behind the mission to preserve Black Twitter

But when Meredith D. Clark, associate professor at Northeastern University in the school of journalism and department of communication studies, began researching Black Twitter as a doctoral student over a decade ago, only two other people in academia were studying what she called the “dynamic phenomenon.”