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Filter Magazine
Naloxone Now Used as Evidence to Prosecute Indiana OD Victims
Citing the effective administration of naloxone as probable cause for a felony charge “will be perceived” by some members of the public as a de facto criminalization of the medication that has helped turn the tide on the overdose crisis, Leo Beletsky, a Northeastern University professor of law and health sciences, warned Filter.
Gender Inequality in Science Careers and Publishing
“This comprehensive picture of gender inequality in academia can help rephrase the conversation around the sustainability of women’s careers in academia, with important consequences for institutions and policy makers,” wrote lead author Junming Huang, now a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University, and his network analysis colleagues at Northeastern University and the University of Copenhagen.
NBC News
Harvard students file lawsuit demanding school pull investments from prisons
Richard Daynard, a distinguished professor of law at Northeastern University who has spearheaded litigation against the tobacco industry, said the Harvard Prison Divestment Campaign’s lawsuit has a chance to gain traction because the plaintiffs are also donors, which adds an extra distinction and an argument that they have more at stake in how the endowment […]
Science Magazine
From ‘living’ cement to medicine-delivering biofilms, biologists remake the material world
“Cells are amazing fabrication plants,” says Neel Joshi, an ELM expert at Northeastern University. “We’re trying to use them to construct things we want.”
International Business Times
NASA embarks upon host of new technologies to study the dark side of the Moon
The other universities involved in the upcoming lunar mission are Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Michigan Technological University, Northeastern University and the University of Virginia. Teams from these universities will help NASA in collecting valuable data from the dark regions of the Moon.
WESA
Pennsylvania Uses The Charge Of ‘Drug Delivery Resulting In Death’ More Than Any Other State
According to data collected by the Health in Justice Action Lab at Northeastern University’s School of Law, Pennsylvania prosecutors filed the charge 644 times in the commonwealth between 2000 and 2017 — nearly twice as much as the next leading state, Ohio.
Could micro-credentials compete with traditional degrees?
Sean Gallagher, the founder and executive director of Northeastern University’s Center for the Future of Higher Education and Talent Strategy, says that global economic expansion in the technology fields has “really highlighted the fact that there is a gap between the supply of people in the workforce coming out of university with skills and credentials to […]
Coming T shutdowns present an opportunity
Once completed, the middle of the roadway should be retained as transit-only lanes, perhaps with stop consolidation, as has been proposed by Northeastern University Professor Peter Furth.
TechTimes
Warning! AI Systems Claiming to ‘Read’ Emotions Are Dangerous
Lisa Feldman Barrett, Northeastern University’s psychology professor, said that technologies drive a developing frame of evidence that weakens the notion that facial expressions are universal across cultures.
Colleges Need to Rethink Their Market — and Maybe Their Mission
Instead we are seeing more hybrid jobs, where students need a mix of the liberal arts and specific hard skills, such as business analytics and graphic design — something that Joseph Aoun, president of Northeastern University, has called hybridized education.
AI systems claiming to ‘read’ emotions pose discrimination risks
Lisa Feldman Barrett, professor of psychology at Northeastern University, said that such technologies appear to disregard a growing body of evidence undermining the notion that the basic facial expressions are universal across cultures.
A husband, father, intern on his first day: How an Illinois city is remembering workplace shooting one year on
In 2019, the year of the Aurora shooting, the U.S. witnessed more mass killings than any other year dating to at least the 1970s, according to a former database compiled by the Associated Press, USA TODAY and Northeastern University.