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Three Ways to Build Back Smarter After Hurricane Ian

“There’s no point in repeating the same mistakes in exactly the same way,” said Auroop R. Ganguly, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern University.
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Russian State TV Defends Drunk Conscripts Amid Mobilization Failures

Larissa Doroshenko, a Russian disinformation expert who is a teaching associate at Boston’s Northeastern University, said that state media outlets had to address the botched mobilization because criticism from citizens made it impossible to ignore.
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In Hurricane Ian’s aftermath, new head of FEMA faces historic challenge

“She is someone who actually has responded to threats. She has experience in the field, she knows what it’s like to be on the frontlines,” said Daniel Aldrich, the director of the Security and Resilience Studies Program at Northeastern University.
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A ‘Black Tax’ Costs US Cities Millions They Can’t Afford

As part of its socially responsible investing initiatives, Breckinridge Capital, working with Duke and Northeastern University researchers, found a Black tax about half the size of Wynter’s. Even then, when they did the math for the entire US, it came to almost $900 million a year.
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Vegas survivors signal hope even as mass shootings march on

The massacre is part of a horrifying uptick of shootings with especially high numbers of people killed, said James Alan Fox, a professor of criminology, law and public policy at Northeastern University in Boston.
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From the archives: USA TODAY’s coverage of the Jeffrey Dahmer case as it really unfolded

James Fox, a Northeastern University criminologist and an authority on serial killers, said the crime is atypical of most serial killers, who are usually careful about covering up evidence of killings and controlled in how they kill.

Hospitals in Coastal Cities Risk Flooding Even in ‘Weak’ Hurricanes, Study Finds

Hospitals cannot be “a resilient island in a fragile ocean,” said Auroop R. Ganguly, a geosciences and civil engineering professor at Northeastern University who was not involved in the study.
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As Ian batters Florida, Puerto Ricans fear being forgotten

“We really can’t look at this event without looking at both the extreme vulnerability of the power grid and the people,” said Laura Kuhl, an assistant professor at Northeastern University who has done research demonstrating an inequitable recovery in Puerto Rico after Maria. 
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Promising Alzheimer’s drug provides second chance for Biogen, and a debated theory about the disease

Hugh Courtney, 59, a Concord resident who was part of the lecanemab study, was happy to hear about the positive results. Courtney is an accomplished economist and former dean of the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University, where he continued to teach until retiring in 2021 when symptoms of the disease made working too […]
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Mass. climate experts: Daunting challenges bring ‘abundant hope and opportunity’

Moderated by Business Journal executive editor Douglas Banks and sponsored by National Grid and Solect Energy, the event featured Ted Landsmark, Northeastern University’s distinguished professor of public policy and urban affairs; Amy Longsworth, executive director of the Boston Green Ribbon Commission; Elizabeth Turnbull Henry, president of the Environmental League of Massachusetts; and Stephen Woerner, National Grid’s New […]
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Here’s why pumpkin spice lattes are so popular: It’s ‘very simple economics,’ say the experts

“Emotions are a powerful motivator for purchase” says Bruce Clark, Associate Professor of Marketing at Northeastern University.
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Punching In: New York Businesses Brace for Pay Transparency Rules

The major questions doctrine has gone from something the Supreme Court used once every five years to a “Swiss Army knife” for courts to limit agency power, said Wendy Parmet, a law professor who directs Northeastern University’s Center for Health Policy and Law.