What the exoneration of George Perrot means for the criminal justice system It has been a good month for justice, and much needed in light of the growing public distrust of the criminal justice system. George Perrot, 48, became a free man earlier this month, when a Massachusetts Superior Court judge overturned his 1992 rape conviction. Prosecutors had built their case on the analysis of a single […]
Yahoo! Should social media founders take ISIS threat seriously? According to Northeastern University professor of political science, Max Abrahms, “For the Islamic State to strike two people who are based so far away, that would require a greater level of sophistication than almost any other Islamic State attack.” For IS, which operates predominantly in the Middle East and in states with weak governments, Dr. […]
LiveScience How to make sense of heart rate data Overall, heart rate is a way to monitor exercise intensity, said Rui Li, an associate clinical professor of health sciences at Northeastern University in Boston. Heart rate is proportional to exercise intensity, Li told Live Science. In other words, as exercise intensity increases, heart rate also increases.
These panels could be the best hope for innocent victims of the criminal justice system Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University who has written about prosecutorial misconduct in depth, told HuffPost that many CIUs function, to some extent, on a “trust us” mentality, which he says is problematic. “Trust us to look into these cases, trust us to bring them to the attention of the courts. The problem, […]
Ithaca’s plan to open a safe site for Heroin users faces legal hurdles If Mayor Svante Myrick wants the injection site to see the light of day, there are major legal hurdles he’s going to have to surmount, says Leo Beletsky, a professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University in Boston. The facility needs some kind of authorization or exemption from the state of New York, […]
CBS Boston Keller @ large: Presidential race may come down to October debates There’s a long way to go in both the Democratic and Republican presidential races. But if you believe that Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump will be their parties’ nominees, as Northeastern University Professor of Journalism Dan Kennedy does, it’s none too soon to be thinking about what role the media will play in that epic […]
Boston Magazine John Kerry is Northeastern’s 2016 commencement speaker Beacon Hill resident and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will deliver Northeastern University’s 2016 commencement address at TD Garden, where he accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination 12 years earlier. NU President Joseph Auon made the announcement on Twitter Monday evening.
Boston Herald John Kerry to deliver commencement speech at Northeastern U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has been chosen to deliver Northeastern University’s commencement speech. Northeastern President Joseph Aoun said in a statement Tuesday that Kerry, like Northeastern, has deep roots in Massachusetts and is engaged in the global community. Aoun says Kerry is a powerful example for graduates. Kerry, who became secretary of state […]
How a million planning meetings taught me to humanize: Reflecting on the New England Interfaith Student Summit his past Friday, the student leaders of the Northeastern University Interfaith Council (NUIC) welcomed over 100 students and staff from college campuses around New England to the first ever New England Interfaith Student Summit (NEISS). The day made me nostalgic for my last year at the University of Southern California (USC), the year I wrote […]
U.S. News How retirees can prove their income for renting “It’s more of a common situation than you’d think,” says Tim Gagnon, an accounting professor at D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University and a practicing certified public accountant at Coleman & Gagnon. “In the snowbird case, they may want to go rent in Florida for the winter, or maybe they’re going to rent in both […]
CNET News Smart gun makers need tech investors to step up Last month, President Barack Obama urged the departments of Defense, Justice and Homeland Security to study the technology. In addition, 60 percent of Americans surveyed said they’d be willing to buy a “smart,” “personalized” or “childproof” firearm, according to a recent poll conducted by researchers from Johns Hopkins, Harvard and Northeastern University. The Smart Tech […]
Smokers get $4.9m from Philip Morris USA in suit over Marlboro Lights The award in Monday’s decision was a blow to plaintiffs, but the ruling of deceptive marketing adds fuel to several personal-injury lawsuits pending in Massachusetts, said Edward Sweda Jr., senior attorney at the Public Health Advocacy Institute at Northeastern University’s School of Law. “Plaintiffs’ lawyers will try to rely on this and ask it to […]