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Dubai Future Academy a knowledge hub that fosters best minds, talent for future
Dr. Joseph Aoun, President of the Northeastern University in Boston, stressed the role of the Dubai Future Academy in determining the quality of talent needed in Dubai and the UAE and preparing educational curricula in line with the highest international standards.
The War on Drugs Is Coming for Vapes, and It’s Not Going to End Well
“Prohibition is just a bad idea,” said Leo Beletsky, a professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University, later adding, “Enacting sweeping bans on e-cigs risks throwing the baby out with the bathwater by pushing users toward traditional cigarettes and illicit markets for e-cigs. All of this plays into the hands of traditional tobacco […]
Gizmodo
A Promising Brain-Regenerating Drug May Only Work for Women and Babies, a Mouse Study Suggests
Earlier this May, scientist Rebecca Shansky of Northeastern University in Boston wrote about the ongoing need to stamp out sex bias in medical research, starting with lab animals, and the harm it can cause.
National Geographic
New ‘smart’ skin changes color using a trick learned from chameleons
Biochemist Leila Deravi of Northeastern University, who wasn’t involved in the study, says that this new smart skin has overcome a “major problem for engineers” by figuring out how to elicit a color change without altering the volume of a polymer.
WGBH
Can You Actually Trademark Common Phrases Like ‘Taco Tuesday’?
“I think there’s a lot of confusion about what trademarks are and how they function,” said Northeastern University Law Professor Jessica Silbey.
Vape-Related Deaths Are Scaring People Back into Smoking Cigs
Leo Beletsky, a professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University, said this government reaction was counterproductive, and could lead to catastrophic consequences down the line.
Forbes India
Company crises make managers’ families suffer and what to do about it
Indeed, a recent study conducted by researchers from Northeastern University, the University of Berne, and EDHEC Business School in France showed how the troubles related to company performance can impact managers’ level of stress and even spill over to their family life.
STEM Is Overrated
When universities can broaden “their reach to become engines of lifelong learning,” Northeastern University President Joseph E. Aoun has argued, they will also “robot proof” education.
Why it’s back to the future in the Democratic presidential race
“The Democrats are split on the one hand racially and on the other hand in class terms,” says Northeastern University political scientist William Mayer, an expert on the presidential primary process. “And those have been persistent differences all the way through, you could even go back to 1972.”
Ottawa Citizen
Will CCTV cameras in the ByWard Market help curb violent crime? Hardly
The meta-analysis is by Brandon Welsh, a professor of criminology at Northeastern University in Boston, and David Farrington of Cambridge University, publishing in a journal called Criminology and Public Policy.
Medium
Uber has troves of data on how people navigate cities. Urban planners have begged, pleaded, and gone to court for access. Will they ever get it?
The experiment by Northeastern University computer science researchers Le Chen, Christo Wilson, and Alan Mislove aimed to make the pricing algorithms slightly less opaque.
U.S. News & World Report
How International Students Can Practice English
Many U.S. universities, like Northeastern University in Boston and Georgetown University in the District of Columbia, offer new international students mentors or student ambassadors.