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How a Cherokee Leader Ensured His People’s Language Survived

According to Ellen Cushman, a professor at Northeastern University and member of the Cherokee Nation, syllabaries have an advantage over alphabets.
CBS Minnesota

Do political endorsements matter?

Panagopoulos chairs the political science department at Northeastern University and is the editor of American Politics Research journal.
KQED

The Enduring Ties of Siblings

Guest Laurie Kramer,Professor, Applied Psychology, Northeastern University.
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Fact Check-Connecticut electorate will not be voting to ‘unseal’ ballots

There is only one ballot measure in Connecticut in November 2022, Costas Panagopoulos, chair of the political science department at Northeastern University told Reuters, and it is to amend the state constitution to allow early in-person voting.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Former Northeastern U. Student Who Dropped Out Gives $25 Million for New Professorships

Medium

What Does Fear Look Like in the Brain? How AI Uncovers the Many Faces of Fear

For Ajay Satpute, a social and affective neuroscientist at Northeastern University and a core faculty member at the Institute for Experiential AI (EAI), the best place to start is with a specific emotion: fear.

‘If I were a hospital, I’d be reading the tea leaves’: Pressures grow on the health care industry to reduce its climate pollution

The widely quoted statistic that health care accounts for 8.5% of the nation’s emissions was developed by Matthew Eckelman, associate professor in the department of civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern University, Yale’s Sherman, and other colleagues. 
Gizmodo

Facebook Segments Ads by Race and Age Based on Photos Whether Advertisers Want It or Not, Study Says

But “when we’re talking about advertising for opportunities like jobs, housing, credit, even education, we can see that the things that might have worked quite well for selling products can lead to societally problematic outcomes,” said Piotr Sapiezynski, a researcher at Northeastern University, who co-authored the study alongside PhD candidate Levi Kaplan, undergraduate Nicole Gerzon, […]
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Which Halloween Pranks Can Land Jokesters in Jail? L.A. Lawyer Explains

Northeastern University professor James Alan Fox published data in 2013 indicating that violent crime increases on Halloween night.

Boston officials visit jail as they seek options to house people at ‘Mass. and Cass’

Leo Beletsky, Northeastern University assistant professor of Law and Health Sciences, said using coercive approaches might seem like an option, but he called it “using the wrong tools to address the problem” and doesn’t provide any kind of “lasting solution.”
Wired Magazine

America’s Adderall Shortage Could Kill People

“If you have lots of people moving at the same time from the pharmaceutical market to the illicit market, lots of bad things can happen,” says Leo Beletsky, an epidemiologist and the faculty director of Northeastern University’s Health in Justice Action Lab. “Conditions are very much ripe for that to happen here.”

How to make your butter board less of a germ fest

Darin Detwiler, an assistant teaching professor of food policy at Northeastern University and an expert on food industry regulation, told the Associated Press he sees a lot of potential pathogens in the cracks of wooden butter boards.