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New AD hails Northeastern as ‘forward-moving organization’

Northeastern University’s new athletic director, Jeff Konya, sounds very much like a man who plans to bring a new-age outlook to a Huskies program rich in old-school tenets.
CBS News

Why the 25th Amendment won’t be used to remove Trump

“How do you demonstrate someone is psychologically unsound?” Robert Gilbert, a professor at Northeastern University and an authority on the 25th Amendment, told CBS News last year. This is still an open question, and unless Mr. Trump submits to a thorough examination by a team of unbiased mental health professionals, it’s not one with an […]
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Why are so many Americans crowdfunding their healthcare?

According to a Gallup poll last December, 72 per cent of Americans believe the US healthcare system “has major problems” or is “in a state of crisis”. The strains are all too apparent. From 2005 to 2013, medical bills were the single largest cause of consumer bankruptcy in the US, according to Daniel Austin, a Northeastern […]
Pitchfork

Sidney Gish: No Dogs Allowed album review

Sidney Gish’s story so far is a familiar one. By day, the 20-year-old singer-songwriter studies music business at Boston’s Northeastern University; by night, she digs deep into lo-fi bedroom pop, anti-folk, and uptempo rock jingles, adding to the wealth of catchy, oddball songs she’s been posting on Bandcamp since 2015.
Metro

BPD body cameras had some benefits, preliminary report on pilot program finds

The analysis was written by researchers at Northeastern University and the final, full report is set to be released in June with more information on police-citizen encounters, police proactivity, police lawfulness and police-community relations.
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Here’s what the early findings of Boston’s police body camera program show

The analysis was conducted by Northeastern University researchers Jack McDevitt and Anthony Braga. In the pilot program, 100 cameras were placed on patrol officers in five police districts, and plainclothes officers in the Youth Violence Strike Force, which tends to gang matters. There were 281 participating officers in total, and they typically worked day shifts. […]
Boston Herald

Report finds possible benefits to Boston police body cameras

BPD worked with Northeastern University researchers on the report, which gives preliminary findings into the program. The impact of the body camera program, according to the report, was 12 fewer complaints filed against officers during a one-year period.

Preliminary Boston Police analysis finds ‘small benefits’ of body cameras

The analysis, written by Northeastern University researchers for BPD, found the reduction in citizen complaints “small but statistically significant” and the reduction in use of force reports not statistically significant.
Science Magazine

A powerful new weapon against drug-resistant bacteria was inspired by the human body

The candidate, now headed to human trials for skin infections, adds “an important piece … to the puzzle of creating a perfect antibiotic,” says Kim Lewis, a microbiologist at Northeastern University in Boston who was not involved in the work.
WHDH 7 News

Boston Police commissioner gives first look at results of body cameras

The report focused on two areas — citizen complaints and use of force. In the findings, compiled by researchers at Northeastern University, body-worn cameras “may generate small benefits to the civility of police-citizen civilian encounters.” According to the analysis, body-worn cameras reduced the number of citizen complaints by a small amount — 12 over 12 […]
Wallet Hub

Cool credit cards: Best terms, designs and trends

Many a dissertation has been written on the meaning and impact of “cool” over the years. And to learn more about what, if any, role this powerfully ambiguous term has in the realm of credit cards, we posed the following questions to a panel of professors.
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Modest benefit found in Boston study of police body cameras

Preliminary findings from Boston’s study of police-worn body cameras point to a small benefit in reducing citizen complaints filed against officers, but no impact on police use of force against civilians. The mixed results of the study carried out by researchers at Northeastern University could prompt a fresh round of debate between advocates for body cameras […]