Archinect Researchers call for dismantling of ‘racist infrastructure’ to improve U.S. neighborhoods A group of researchers from Northeastern University and Tufts University has called for funds from President Biden’s infrastructure bill to be diverted to dismantling “racist infrastructure” which is currently disproportionally impacting minority neighborhoods in the United States.
U.S. News & World Report EXPLAINER: What is ISIS-K? Militant groups like the Taliban benefit from presenting a moderate face, says Max Abrahms, an expert in international security and professor at Northeastern University.
The Crime Report Growing Old on Death Row Death rows are “very expensive to maintain,” James Alan Fox, Ph.D., a professor of Criminology, Law, and Public Policy at Northeastern University, told The Crime Report in an interview.
The Conversation Removing urban highways can improve neighborhoods blighted by decades of racist policies Joan Fitzgerald Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Northeastern University Many urban highways built in the 1950s and 1960s were deliberately run through neighborhoods occupied by Black families and other people of color, walling these communities off from jobs and opportunity.
Business Insider Some nurses are choosing to get fired rather than get vaccinated Nationwide, as many as 27% of all healthcare workers are still unvaccinated, according to data compiled by Northeastern University.
Brain Maps Are a Trap Not only do researchers often depict the brain and its functions much as mapmakers might draw nations on continents, but they do so “the way old-fashioned mapmakers” did, according to Lisa Feldman Barrett, a psychologist at Northeastern University. “They parse the brain in terms of what they’re interested in psychologically or mentally or behaviorally,” and then […]
The Star Ocean surface climates may disappear by 2100: study Lead study author Katie Lotterhos, from Northeastern University’s Marine Science Center, said the ocean’s changing composition due to carbon pollution would likely impact all surface species.
San Diego County’s campaign to fight medical falsehoods gains momentum Wendy Parmet, a professor of law, public policy and urban affairs at Northeastern University in Boston, agreed. “The 1st Amendment does not limit the government’s ability to counter misinformation or focus on the dissemination of truthful information,” she said.
Boston Herald Massachusetts preschools, daycares face ‘frustrating’ staffing shortages According to a recent study conducted by Alicia Sasser Modestino and other researchers at Northeastern University, 26% of working women had to leave their jobs during the pandemic due to a lack of childcare.
You Are Not Who You Think You Are But some neuroscientists, like Lisa Feldman Barrett of Northeastern University, argue that people construct emotions and thoughts, and there is no clear distinction between them.
‘Slowly going back to normality’: College students return to campus in Boston At BU and Northeastern, students were required to submit proof of vaccination before getting a move-in assignment. Both schools stagger move-in times to limit large congregations of people.
Deseret News Passports in a pandemic Americans were not happy. The new passports were seen as a “symbol of eroding trust between citizens and their government,” writes Craig Robertson, an associate professor of media and communication studies at Northeastern University, in the Smithsonian Magazine.
