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Phys.org

Is wildfire soot leaving a mark on the world’s oceans?

That’s the idea behind new research by Aron Stubbins, associate professor of marine and environmental sciences at Northeastern. The study was led by a former student of Stubbins, Sasha Wagner, who was also a postdoctoral researcher at Northeastern at the time.
GBH

On The Varsity Blues Case, We Asked Our Legal Expert: Why Roll The Dice On A Trial?

Daniel Medwed, Northeaster University law professor and GBH News legal analyst, joined Aaron Schachter on Morning Edition to talk about the trial. 
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FBI: Record surge in 2020 murders; nearly 30% increase drives violent crime spike

James Alan Fox, a professor of criminology at Northeastern University who closely analyzes violent crime data, called last year an “aberration” and perhaps not indicative of a longer term trend.
Digiday

How Axios is tackling local news: newsletters from small teams, in more markets

While local Axios newsletters appear to be “robust,” news outlets like The Denver Post “have much larger staffs and are providing important accountability journalism, whereas Axios can really only skim the surface,” said Dan Kennedy, a journalism professor at Northeastern University. He worried that Axios’ local news push could “come at the expense of news […]

Holiday shoppers urged to start early as some store shelves already empty

“I would recommend that people start shopping yesterday,” said Nada Sanders, distinguished professor of supply chain management at Northeastern University.”
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Derek Chauvin ‘Has a Shot’ at Appeal Success. Here’s Why

Daniel Medwed, a professor of law and criminal justice at Northeastern University, said Chauvin “has a shot, even if just remote one.” While he did not suggest Chauvin could overturn his conviction, he highlighted areas which “may have some teeth to their bite” for the appeal.
Memphis Commercial Appeal

Collierville’s Kroger shooting on Thursday draws national attention, invokes gun safety talks

In 2020, Tennessee alone reported 19 mass shootings that killed nine and injured 85, according to a Northeastern University report. A year earlier, the state had seven mass shootings that killed three and injured 32.
Business Insider

How a partnership between the city of Boston and local universities is working to help policymakers better serve residents

City-university partnerships are critical to digital transformation, as city agencies are consumed by “the daily grind of running a city,” O’Brien, who’s also an associate professor of public policy and urban affairs, criminology, and criminal justice at Northeastern University said. “Universities bring skills and extra capacity to the table to design research studies, execute research […]
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FCC May Be Hamstrung Under GOP Majority as Nominations Lag

“It’s just horribly frustrating to me that we can’t make progress on anything the Republicans don’t support,” David Choffnes, executive director of Northeastern University’s Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute, said in an interview. “Every day we don’t have a commission that gets us a majority, it’s a day we don’t have to restore the net neutrality rules.”
NBC Boston

Inside Northeastern’s COVID Testing Center

Northeastern University’s coronavirus testing lab in Burlington, Massachusetts, gave NBC10 Boston an inside look.

Biden’s global summit Covid-19 targets are woefully inadequate and must be corrected

Brook K. Baker is a professor of law at Northeastern University in Boston and senior policy analyst for Health GAP (Global Access Project).
Poynter

Amid proposals for travel vaccine mandates, is there a right to unfettered travel in the US?

“There is a constitutional ‘right to travel,’ but it isn’t absolute,” said Wendy E. Parmet, director of the Center for Health Policy and Law and Northeastern University.