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Analysis: What Made Obama Rebuke Trump?

Northeastern University professor Costas Panagopoulos said it was clear Obama was trying to articulate a sense of urgency.
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Fabien Cousteau’s Proteus Could Be The ISS Of The Ocean

“If you need to be out in the water column — making your measurements, collecting the weird organisms that are there, doing engineering tasks — and you’re operating from the surface, you don’t have the luxury of time,” Mark Patterson, a professor of marine and environmental sciences at Northeastern University, one of Cousteau’s partners on […]
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Secret to dinosaurs’ huge size may be in unusually lightweight bones

“Trabecular bone is an exceptional, lightweight structural material,” says Donahue. Until now, no one had studied the properties of this bone tissue in dinosaurs. The focus on trabecular bone makes the new study unique, says Sandra Shefelbine at Northeastern University in Massachusetts, who wasn’t involved in the work.
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Why Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez nominated Bernie Sanders at the Democratic convention

Northeastern University professor Costas Panagopoulos said this has happened before with second-place finishers: Hillary Clinton in 2008, Jesse Jackson in 1988 and Ted Kennedy in 1980.

How key bottlenecks scrambled COVID-19 testing in Sacramento

“It’s pretty stunning that we are still having these bottlenecks,” said David Lazer, a professor at Northeastern University and co-author of a recent report on turnaround times for test results across the U.S.

Massachusetts Delegates Discuss The Divide In Party Philosophy

Silvia Dominguez is an associate professor of sociology at Northeastern University, and a pledged delegate for Bernie Sanders.
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The Politics of Postal Reform Have Always Been Part of USPS History

Ryan Ellis is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Northeastern University and a previous recipient of the United States Postal Service’s Moroney Award for Scholarship in Postal History.
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Mass shootings: Limiting magazine capacity saves lives and doesn’t infringe on gun rights

James Alan Fox is the Lipman Family Professor of Criminology, Law and Public Policy at Northeastern University, a member of USA TODAY’s Board of Contributors and co-author of “Extreme Killing: Understanding Serial and Mass Murder.“
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The virus isn’t going away. That’s why campuses need to reopen.

The virus isn’t going away. That’s why campuses need to reopen. Read on the Washington Post. – 8/19/2020 Op-ed by President Joseph Aoun on higher education during the COVID-19 pandemic. View all articles.
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What Derailed America’s Covid Testing: Three Lost Weeks

There were already more than 50 mostly hidden infections a day in the U.S. by mid-February, suggesting that community transmission probably began in January, according to estimates from Northeastern University.
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Only About a Third of Republicans Would Get a COVID-19 Vaccine and a Third Wouldn’t: Poll

More than a third of American respondents told Fairleigh Dickinson University pollsters in late May they would not get vaccinated, and a poll from researchers at Harvard, Northeastern University, Northwestern University and Rutgers University that was conducted in mid-July found Republicans were least likely to express interest in getting a vaccine. 
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Vote by mail could be a mess, but not for the reasons President Trump says

Ammons is not alone. Cornfield pointed to a July report by a consortium of professors from Harvard, Rutgers, Northwestern and Northeastern universities.