Article WCVB TV Northeastern University celebrates Class of 2023 graduates at Fenway Park The university is known for prioritizing global experiences for students, and the school infused that into this year’s commencement.
Article MIT Technology Review The flawed logic of rushing out extreme climate interventions Jennie Stephens, professor of sustainability science and policy at Northeastern University, wasn’t surprised at all by the Make Sunsets balloon launches.
Article Boston 25 Northeastern holds first graduation without restrictions since start of pandemic Sunday’s 121st Northeastern University commencement took place at Fenway Park. 4,754 graduate students participated in a morning event, and 4,643 undergraduates celebrated the milestone during an afternoon event.
Article Mass killing in Texas mall is 22nd this year, on pace to break record So far this year, the country has recorded 22 mass killings — all involving guns — that collectively have resulted in at least 115 deaths, according to a database maintained by the Associated Press, USA Today and Northeastern University.
Article Different crowd, same excitement: Fenway buzzes with Northeastern graduation Thousands of Northeastern University students, their friends, and family filled Fenway Park Sunday for the school’s 121st commencement, and its third straight ceremony held at the iconic ballpark.
Article CDC to stop reporting new COVID infections as public health emergency winds down “Overall some good news here,” wrote Sam Scarpino, an infectious disease researcher at Northeastern University in an email to NPR. “Continuing wastewater, traveler screening, and genome sequencing will be important to ensure the infrastructure is maintained for the next time we need it.”
Article WBZ Northeastern Researchers Train Parrots To Video-Chat Parrots What happens when you give a parrot an iPad? A groundbreaking new study out of Northeastern and the University of Glasgow finds pet birds can make friends over video.
Article C.D.C. to Scale Back Covid Tracking Efforts The data the C.D.C. still plans to collect will not provide enough actionable information at the state and local level, said Sam Scarpino, a public health expert at Northeastern University.
Article WCVB TV National investigation shows Massachusetts lags in compensation for wrongfully convicted If this scenario had played out in various states across the country, Weichel could’ve been eligible to receive more money. 5 Investigates teamed up with Northeastern University’s School of Journalism for a national review of wrongful conviction compensation laws.
Article Vox Your boss is obsessed with productivity without knowing what it means “The research on this really does seem to be a complete mess, not in the sense that it’s bad research but in the sense that you can find research that points at positive effects, be it productivity or happiness or job satisfaction, or you can find research finding the opposite,” said Christoph Riedl, an associate […]
Article Quartz Why smart homes aren’t smart (yet) A 2019 study (pdf) conducted by Imperial College London and Northeastern University examined the privacy of 81 different IoT devices.
Article Readers react to Kate Woodsome’s column on ADHD ‘illness’ In childhood, the brain of someone with ADHD develops differently and often uses inefficient routes to send messages, according to psychology professor Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli, director of the Northeastern University Biomedical Imaging Center.