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Amy Klobuchar’s ‘surge’ proves media still has a ‘woman’ problem

The coverage they do get tends to be more negative: Northeastern University School of Journalism last spring analyzed almost 1,400 news articles from mainstream outlets and found “female candidates running for president are consistently being  described in the media more negatively than their male counterparts.” 

Disease modelers gaze into their computers to see the future of Covid-19, and it isn’t good

“Year by year there have been improvements in forecasting models and the way they are combined to provide forecasts,” said physicist Alessandro Vespignani of Northeastern University, a leading infectious-disease modeler.
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The Dark History of Quarantines in the United States

Often times, quarantines are used by politicians to show they’re taking a problem seriously, regardless of whether research finds them effective, says Wendy Parmet, a Northeastern University law professor.
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McClatchy, Second-largest US Newspaper Group, In Bankruptcy

Dan Kennedy, a journalism professor at Northeastern University who follows the sector, said McClatchy’s woes follow “the narrative that we’ve seen with corporate chain ownership” by accumulating debt that kept it from investing in future technologies.
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Here’s How Computer Models Simulate the Future Spread of New Coronavirus

Alessandro Vespignani, a physicist and director of the Laboratory for the Modeling of Biological and Socio-technical Systems at Northeastern University, leads a team that is simulating the novel coronavirus’s spread using official air-travel data and predicted commuting patterns among census populations.
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A ‘slap in the face’ to federal prosecutors? Specialists weigh in on Boston Calling decision

Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University, said judges seldom vacate a jury’s decision. “To some extent, it undermines the function of the jury ― that’s the fear at least,” he said.
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The Public Writing Life: the Venue, the Pitch, and the Fee

For insights on how to connect with editors, I reached out to Liz Bucar, a professor of philosophy and religion at Northeastern University and project lead of the Luce-funded Sacred Writes: Public Scholarship on Religion. 
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Missouri Finds Managing Pain Without Opioids Isn’t Fast Or Easy

“Covering a course of cheap opioid pills is different than trying to create a multidisciplinary individualized plan that may or may not work,” said Leo Beletsky, a professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University in Boston, noting that the scientific evidence of the efficacy of such treatments is mixed.
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Experiencing Trauma In Childhood Linked To Increased Risk Of Developing Dementia

Alisa Lincoln, Director of the Institute for Health Equity and Social Justice Research at Northeastern University in Boston, hopes the evidence is enough to spur health care practitioners to acknowledge the longitudinal effects of ACEs—and to put more support and interventions in place to both prevent and treat them.
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What’s in a Name? Why WHO’s Formal Name for the New Coronavirus Disease Matters

If the new name had included a reference to Wuhan it would put a “tremendous stigmatization on the people of Wuhan who are the victims” of the disease, Wendy Parmet, a law professor at Northeastern University and public health expert, tells TIME.
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Warming oceans drive almost 60 per cent drop in chinstrap penguin population

The researchers from Stony Brook University and Northeastern University in the US joined a Greenpeace expedition to the region, and surveyed chinstrap penguins on the important habitat of Elephant Island.
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PayPal funds academic research on illegal firearms transactions

The research will be led by Dr. Anthony Braga, director of the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northeastern and an expert on the subject of gun violence and reducing illegal access to firearms.