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CPA Exam Makeover Risks Raising Hurdles for Black Accountants

PwC will pay for 40 Black and Hispanic students to take part in a fellowship program at Northeastern University that launches this year. The students will ultimately earn a master’s in management, worth 30 credit hours, and a salary.
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Could President Biden challenge Florida and Texas on mask policies? Probably not.

“The Supreme Court is unlikely to say that the federal government can prevent the states from limiting the authority of their localities,” said Wendy E. Parmet, a Northeastern University law and public policy professor.
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25 Colleges With the Highest Retention Rates

6= Northeastern University (98%) Established in 1898, Northeastern University is a private research university with its primary campus situated in Boston. Popular majors at this large institution include Business, Information Science and Mechanical Engineering.
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We have more than five senses. A neuroscientist explains the the hidden abilities we often overlook

Lisa is a professor of psychology at Northeastern University and the author of Seven And A Half Lessons About The Brain.
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Rich nations dip into COVAX supply while poor wait for shots

Brook Baker, a Northeastern University law professor who specializes in access to medicines, said it was unconscionable that rich countries would dip into COVAX vaccine supplies when more than 90 developing countries had virtually no access. COVAX’s biggest supplier, the Serum Institute of India, stopped sharing vaccines in April to deal with a surge of […]

The Joys of Parks During a Pandemic

This isn’t the first time parks have shone in a public health crisis, Sara Jensen Carr, an architecture professor at Northeastern University, told me: The initial popularization of public parks in the United States was a response to devastating epidemics.

Can The Internet Be More Resilient To Climate Change? Some Are Banking On It

Stephen Flynn, founding director of Northeastern University’s Global Resilience Institute, said a potential problem is accessing data during a weather disaster. Many people think of data as streams of ones and zeros “traveling magically through the air,” Flynn said. But in reality data are “moving through a physical infrastructure.” Flynn said safeguarding vulnerable nodes on the […]
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Forget Government Mandates. Companies Are Calling the Shots

A Northwestern University poll released last week found that the percentage of Americans who support vaccine mandates has risen to 64% from 58% in April. The COVID States Project poll was conducted by a consortium that includes Northwestern, Northeastern, Harvard and Rutgers universities.
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High Earners Among Most Susceptible to Vaccine Myths, Survey Finds

COVID States Project, a group of researchers from Northeastern, Harvard, Rutgers and Northwestern universities, asked 20,669 people in all 50 U.S. states to evaluate four misconceptions related to the vaccine, including that it can cause infertility, alter DNA, and contains tracking devices and tissue from aborted fetuses.
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SCIENTISTS’ ‘HOLY GRAIL’ BATTERY DISCOVERY COULD MAKE COMPUTERS FASTER AND LONGER-LASTING

“It’s like discovering a new element,” physicist Arun Bansil, who led a team of researchers from Northeastern University to make this discovery, said. “And we know there’s going to be all sorts of interesting applications for this.”
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It’s Time to Reboot Our Thinking About Adult Learners in a Digitally Transformed World

Sean Gallagher is founder and executive director of Northeastern University’s Center for the Future of Higher Education and Talent Strategy, and executive professor of educational policy.
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Boston Globe hires Nielsen to help boost readership diversity

While the Globe spokeswoman declined to provide any internal data on its readership, Northeastern University journalism professor Dan Kennedy said he’s “reasonably sure that the Globe’s internal numbers show that its audience is still mostly white and suburban.”