“A very small group of individuals with a lot of financing, they’re pushing for this,” says Jennie Stephens, a professor of sustainability science and policy at Northeastern University. “The advocates are very good fundraisers.”

“There was a strategic move of these corporations to tap into the buying power of the (Muslim) community that they’ve been kind of ignoring for a while,” said Liz Bucar, religious ethicist at Northeastern University in Boston and author of “Stealing My Religion: Not Just Any Cultural Appropriation.”

“It’s an interesting argument,” says ethicist Prof Ronald Sandler from Northeastern University, Boston.

And research from Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute indicates that 73 percent of the United States food supply is ultra-processed.

In Maine, however, AI is being used across industries in broad applications including identifying fish in the Gulf of Maine accurately for sale to consumers and at a bank to safeguard customer data and automate repetitive tasks, according to a recent study by Portland-based Roux Institute of Northeastern University

Some researchers question whether lab-grown eggs can ever be thoroughly tested enough for reproductive purposes. “If you’re making an egg to make a baby, the bar for quality is off the charts, because you can’t screw it up,” said Jonathan Tilly, a professor of biology who studies stem cells at Northeastern University.

“This approach was prototyped at Northeastern University, in the laboratory of Nikolai Slavov,” says Schmidt, adding that Slavov and his colleagues will be involved in founding PTI.

The “mundane, largely hidden violence” that loomed over Black life is the subject of Margaret A. Burnham’s new book, By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners, a work by turns shocking, moving, and thought-provoking. It merits the attention of anyone interested in the historical roots of the civil rights movement of the 1960s and, […]

One of them is in Boston, where Julia Hopkins, an assistant professor at Northeastern University, is using coconut fibers, wood chips and other material to create floating mats to blunt the force of waves, and encourage growth of aquatic vegetation. 

Boston’s technology sector may have been spared from the worst of the fallout because of its heavy concentration in healthcare, an area that is a counter-cyclical industry, meaning it often does well during market downturns said John Bai, Northeastern University Associate Professor of Finance.

For example, Black and Latinx people were “much more likely to receive high cost, high risk loans than white borrowers during the housing boom, even after controlling for credit scores, loan to value rations, subordinate liens, income, assets, expense ratios, neighborhood characteristics, and other relevant variables” in the lead to the 2008 housing crash, researchers […]

“It is a quick way to signal to others that whatever those people over there are saying is not real, not substantial: This is something that’s easily dismissed, you shouldn’t pay attention to it,” Meredith D. Clark, who is now a professor in the School of Journalism and the Department of Communication Studies at Northeastern […]