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What researchers learned about online higher education during the pandemic

One finding that has emerged from the pandemic could have the greatest effect of all on online higher education: Nearly half of employers said their opinion of the quality of online credentials has improved, according to a survey by the Northeastern University Center for the Future of Higher Education and Talent Strategy.
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Here’s who is not eligible for Biden’s marijuana pardon

Matt Cameron, a Boston-based immigration attorney who also teaches immigration policy at Northeastern University, told CNN that the decision to not include non-citizens who were not lawfully present could have dire consequences for some people.
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New class of ceramics can be thermoformed into shape like sheet metal

In what they hail as a “new frontier in materials,” engineers at Northeastern University have developed a new type of ceramic that can be fashioned into thin and complex shapes, opening up expansive new applications in electronics. Described as thermoformable ceramics, the novel materials came about through a laboratory accident, but could serve as more […]
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Workers got bigger raises this year, but inflation has gobbled them up

Raising wages for lower-income workers is a good strategy for both employers and the economy, said Northeastern University economist Alicia Sasser Modestino.
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DACA court ruling forces ‘Dreamers’ to live in fear, experts say. Here’s what else you need to know.

But, Rachel Rosenbloom, a Northeastern University professor of law, said DHS has since gone through the notice and comment process for DACA, undermining a judge’s initial ruling that it failed to follow the required procedure.

Google’s new AI can hear a snippet of song—and then keep on playing

Rupal Patel, who researches information and speech science at Northeastern University, says that previous work using AI to generate audio could capture those nuances only if they were explicitly annotated in training data. In contrast, AudioLM learns those characteristics from the input data automatically, which adds to the realistic effect.
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Butter Boards Are All The Rage, But Are They Safe To Eat From?

Even if you’re on board with the butter board, not all food safety experts are. HuffPost spoke to Darin Detwiler, an associate professor at Northeastern’s College of Professional Studies and the author of “Food Safety: Past, Present and Predictions.”

Victims of suspected Northern California serial killer identified

Enzo Yaksic, the founder of Northeastern University’s Atypical Homicide Research Group, said the suspect or suspects fit “the profile of the modern-day serial killer” because they’re targeting both male and female minority victims in a public space without much interaction. 

With Online Learning, ‘Let’s Take a Breath and See What Worked and Didn’t Work.’

One finding that has emerged from the pandemic could have the greatest effect of all on online higher education: Nearly half of employers said their opinion of the quality of online credentials has improved, according to a survey by the Northeastern University Center for the Future of Higher Education and Talent Strategy.
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Forget about 5G phones — here comes 6G

At Northeastern University, which has been at the forefront of earlier wireless advances, the first 6G project is taking off. The school’s Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things last month won backing from the Department of Defense to develop the new tech under an initiative dubbed “Open6G.”
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Wu blocks new artificial turfs in Boston parks, refrains from calling it a ban

Phil Brown, co-director of the Social Science and Environmental Health Institute at Northeastern University, said cities like Boston have major influence over how states and federal government respond to man-made environmental threats. 
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Putin Struggling to Appease Three Key Factions as Regime Faces Pressure—ISW

Larissa Doroshenko, an expert on Russian disinformation from Boston’s Northeastern University, told Newsweek last week that the mobilization was part of Putin’s attempt to do something “to turn around this war and change the momentum” but this was not solely in response to the bloggers’ criticism.