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1 shot of coronavirus vaccine likely won’t be enough

“We’re looking at double shots. That’s twice the amount,” said Nada Sanders, a professor of supply chain management at Northeastern University.  “Doubling is a huge supply chain issue.”
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In good health: meet the people who have quit their jobs to join the NHS

“It’s not terribly surprising,” says Prof Paula Caliguiri of Northeastern University in Boston, US, and the author of Get a Life, Not a Job: Do What You Love and Let Your Talents Work for You. Stuck at home, unable to leave the house during those early, fear-filled months of lockdown, many people looked at the […]
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Does Facebook still sell discriminatory ads?

In 2019, researchers at Northeastern University and the digital civil rights advocacy group Upturn ran dozens of their own ads, all targeted to the same broad audience, and found that Facebook showed the ads seeking to hire secretaries mostly to women.
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One shot of coronavirus vaccine likely won’t be enough 

“We’re looking at double shots. That’s twice the amount,” said Nada Sanders, a professor of supply chain management at Northeastern University.  “Doubling is a huge supply chain issue.”

Athletes find the power of their collective voice in Jacob Blake protests

“When you think about it, at what moment does your protest happen?” said Dan Lebowitz, executive director of the Center for the Study of Sport in Society at Northeastern University. “What is the social evolution temperature of the country or the world?”
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Fact check: Jacob Blake faces charges in May assault case, but he has no gun convictions

Such allegations are a common and patently unfair response to tragic events that need to be corrected, said Daniel Medwed, professor of law and criminal justice at Northeastern University School of Law.
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Colleges crack down on student behavior as virus threatens more closures

Northeastern University put 115 students on notice after they responded to a social media poll that they’d be willing to go to parties and ordered them to write an affirmation to abide by the student conduct policy or risk having their admissions rescinded.
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Colleges rely on downtown hotels to allow for ‘de-densification’ of students this fall

A number of hotel operators — an industry that has been hard-hit by the pandemic — have reached out to Northeastern, which last year had an undergraduate population of more than 20,000. The school has also gotten offers of help from housing developers, particularly those creating apartments who had projects coming online at a time […]
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John Lewis’ March on Washington speech is still relevant 57 years later

As Margaret Burnham, a professor at the Northeastern University School of Law, wrote after Lewis’ passing in July, “But for a short revival after the Sixteenth Street Church bombing (in 1963), Title III would never get out of the committee rooms.”
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National Science Foundation awards $20M to launch artificial-intelligence institute

The AI Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions, announced Wednesday, is a cross-discipline collaboration between 20 physicists and seven AI experts from Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northeastern University, and Tufts University.
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The utopian promise and dystopian potential of real-time detection of police, fire, and medical emergencies

 A Northeastern University study released earlier this year found that Black people are twice as likely to die from police shootings as white people are.
Inside Higher Ed

Alternative Credentials on the Rise

Few have more experience monitoring alternative credentials and consumer interest in online learning than Sean Gallagher, an executive professor of education policy at Northeastern University. “This looks to be a catalytic moment,” said Gallagher, who is the founder and executive director of Northeastern’s Center for the Future of Higher Education and Talent Strategy. “Like what’s happened […]