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WGBH Boston Public Radio
How Massachusetts Prisoners (Recently) Lost the Right To Vote
The modern era for voting rights for prisoners in Massachusetts started in 1973, “when some prisoner rights activists basically noticed that they had a right to vote and began a registration drive in MCI-Concord,” said WGBH Legal Analyst Daniel Medwed, a professor of law and justice at Northeastern University.
Northeastern University’s Boston campus is officially an arboretum
The arboretum is the only one on a college campus in Boston, Doughty said. Harvard University’s Arnold Arboretum is located in Boston’s Jamaica Plain and Roslindale sections, but the university’s campus is in Cambridge.
Female Hedge-Fund Veteran Has Contemplated a Comeback
Women have an especially tough time raising money, according to a recent study by Rajesh Aggarwal and Nicole M. Boyson, professors at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University.
WGBH Boston Public Radio
How The Appellate Process Works
WGBH News’ Morning Edition Host Joe Mathieu spoke with Northeastern University law professor and WGBH legal analyst Daniel Medwed to talk about how appeals work.
MSN
Fake Facebook accounts: a never-ending battle against bots
The figures from Facebook’s transparency report suggests Facebook is acting aggressively on fake accounts, said Onur Varol, a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Complex Network Research at Northeastern University.
Science News
How bacteria nearly killed by antibiotics can recover — and gain resistance
Common wisdom holds that treating bacteria with antibiotics should stop bacteria in the act of swapping antibiotic-resistance genes, says Kim Lewis, a microbiologist at Northeastern University in Boston not involved in the study.
The Books of College Libraries Are Turning Into Wallpaper
At my library at Northeastern University, undergraduate circulations declined 50 percent from 2013 to 2017—before we decided to do our own book relocation—and our logged number of books removed from shelves but not checked out also dropped by half.
New York Daily News
Break the ‘broken windows’ spell: The policing theory made famous in New York City under Giuliani and Bratton doesn’t hold up to scrutiny
O’Brien, author of “The Urban Commons,” is associate professor in the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University.
The Science Times
Fake Facebook Accounts: The Never-ending Battle Against Bots
The figures from the company’s transparency report shows that Facebook is acting aggressively on face accounts, said Onur Varol, a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Complex Network Research at Northeastern University.
On Japan’s Okinawa, U.S. military is accused of contaminating environment with hazardous chemical
A study EWG released this month in conjunction with the researchers at Northeastern University found PFAS contamination at 610 sites in 43 U.S. states. The sites include drinking water systems serving an estimated 19 million people.
Joe Biden reduced murders, reformed criminal justice policy and made America safer
James Alan Fox is the Lipman Professor of Criminology, Law and Public Policy at Northeastern University, a member of USA TODAY’s Board of Contributors and co-author of “The Will to Kill: Making Sense of Senseless Murder.”
Mass Live
50 states of financial disclosure: How Michigan stacks up
“It’s not a panacea – it won’t in and of itself solve a lot of these problems directly,” said John Wihbey, an assistant professor at Northeastern University who has extensively studied financial disclosure laws in the U.S.