Gambling addiction in the U.S. is becoming a fully fledged crisis and “demands a public health response,” activists have warned. “We’re seeing the evidence everywhere,” Harry Levant, director of gambling policy at the Public Health Advocacy Institute, told The Guardian.

As Sportico exclusively reported last month, the Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI) at Northeastern University School of Law in Boston is leading litigation, Sage & Thompson v. DraftKings et al., that depicts sports betting as a public health crisis

“There’s probably more tailwinds” to promote more modular construction today, said Ivan Rupnik, a Northeastern University professor, “but there’s also still headwinds. It’s a complicated situation.”

Joan Fitzgerald, a Northeastern University public policy and urban affairs professor, noted that Boston has struggled to reduce its transportation emissions. Though she supports congestion pricing, she said the measure would likely face political headwinds and require state approval.

Last summer, a fisher caught a one-in-two-million blue lobster, later nicknamed Neptune, which he donated to Northeastern University’s Marine Science Center in Nahant, Massachusetts. Also last year, a fisher hauled in a 1-in-30-million “calico” lobster with a bright orange shell speckled with bits of black and blue. 

The cost of the dengue epidemic recorded in 2010 in Puerto Rico – with more than 10,000 reported cases – could have reached $1.1 billion , exceeding by 17 times the cost of a year without an epidemic, a new study estimated, which demonstrates, according to sources consulted, the importance of strengthening educational campaigns and prevention measures to respond […]

But not every shady donor is so easy to spot. Instead, said Patricia Illingworth, a professor of philanthropy and ethics at Northeastern University and author of Giving Now: Accelerating Human Rights for All, the majority “are problematic mainly because of how they made their money” or because they’ve engaged in behavior that is morally dubious, but […]

Anthropic is consulting with a Catholic priest and other prominent Christians to give Claude a sense of spirituality. David DeSteno, a professor of psychology at Northeastern University, wrote a smart Opinion piece questioning whether that’s possible.)

Costas Panagopoulos, a professor of political science at Northeastern University, told Newsweek that job performance disapproval “may be more likely to be impactful, but personal ratings also matter because the two measures are not completely independent.”

Northeastern University will hold its commencement ceremonies at Fenway Park on April 29 — notably earlier than most schools. Singer and actress Hilary Duff will address undergraduates, while Alan McKim, founder of environmental services company Clean Harbors, will speak at the graduate ceremony.

The writer, a research professor of criminology, law and public policy at Northeastern University, manages the database The Post uses to track mass shootings.

Liz Bucar, PhD, a religion professor at Northeastern University and author of Beyond Wellness, has a theory about why. The version of mindfulness most of us are practicing has been carefully, deliberately, and strategically emptied of the very elements that made it work in the first place.