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Chicago Tribune

Chicago police ‘brain drain’? Retirements have stabilized, but 660 cops retired in 2021, almost twice as many as in 2018

James Alan Fox, a Northeastern University criminologist, said there’s a nationwide issue of departments not being able to keep recruitment up with retirements. Many departments have also had big budget cuts, which affect hiring, too.
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The Future of Energy Will Require Bigger Sacrifice From Citizens

“Japan has long used a public-participation based, energy conservation approach which has been among the most successful in the world,” said Daniel Aldrich, a professor at Northeastern University in Boston. “Cutting demand across Europe – in parallel fashion to the way that Japan has cut power use – would help reduce demand for Russian oil […]
CBS Boston

Can the Lumen Really Help You ‘Hack’ Your Metabolism? We Tried It to Find Out.

Take local colleges like Boston College, Boston University, and Northeastern University. Each of those schools report the highest number of applications received during a single application period.
NBC Boston

Putin Will ‘Likely’ Use Chemical Weapons, Local Experts Say

Harvard scholar Oleh Kotsyuba and Northeastern University professors Mai’a Cross and Pablo Calderon explained Wednesday how likely it is that Putin will use chemical or nuclear weapons on NBC10 Boston’s weekly series, “Russia-Ukraine Q&A.”
People Magazine

Why Conrad Roy’s Mom Is Fighting to Make Suicide Coercion a Crime: ‘I Want My Son to Be Proud of Me’

Roland wrote to several Massachusetts lawmakers — and connected with Daniel Medwed, a professor of law and criminal justice at Northeastern University in Boston, who had offered analysis on the case to a local TV station. Medwed helped draft a proposed law, and then took it to state Sen. Barry Finegold, Roland says.
MIT Sloan Management Review

Equity in the Hybrid Office

Curtis L. Odom is an executive professor of management in the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University in Boston. 
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Rich countries getting new COVID vaccine before poorer ones

“Whatever the explanation is, it’s unsatisfactory,” said Brook Baker, an access to medicines specialist at Northeastern University. “The bottom line is that there are still a lot of unvaccinated people in poor countries and once again, they are at the back of the line.”

Newspaper giant Gannett ends print runs for many local weeklies in Mass.

Speaking with Radio Boston’s Tiziana Dearing, Dan Kennedy, journalism professor at Northeastern University and media expert who blogs his industry insights at Media Nation, said the move will further hollow out community journalism.
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Ukraine’s volunteer online army: Meet the ‘cyber elves’ fighting Russian trolls on Facebook

Russian operatives typically use five D’s: distort, distract, dismiss, deny and dismay, according to Larissa Doroshenko, a postdoctoral teaching associate at Northeastern University.
AFP

Article misleads on US goverment-funded Covid-19 vaccine advocacy

Dan Kennedy, a Northeastern University journalism professor who writes about the media business, noted that news organizations consider the separation of advertising and editorial a “church and state” division so that one side does not influence the other.
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Friedrich Nietzsche’s guide to better online living

Evan Selinger is a professor of philosophy at the Rochester Institute of Technology and an affiliate scholar at Northeastern University’s Center for Law, Innovation, and Creativity.
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This ancient monastery in Kyiv is at the heart of Putin’s spurious rationale for the war in Ukraine

Harlow Robinson, emeritus professor of history at Northeastern University, remembers visiting the Caves Monastery in 1971 as part of the Yale Russian chorus. “It was one of the most otherworldly experiences I’ve ever had,” he says, recalling the narrow maze of underground cells illuminated only by candlelight.