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Margaret Burnham: By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners

Hear from renowned legal scholar, civil rights advocate, and former judge Margaret A. Burnham, the founder of Northeastern University School of Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) and author of By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners. 
Science Magazine

AI algorithms can become ‘agents of chaos’

Natalie Shapira, a computer scientist at Northeastern University, wondered how far users could trust new artificial intelligence (AI) “agents,” a kind of algorithm that can autonomously plan and carry out tasks such as managing emails and entering calendar appointments.
IFL Science

There Really Is No Clean Definition Of Biological Sex – And That’s OK

And more likely than either option is this: that you don’t actually know which gametes are present at all. “We do not refute the gametic definition, it remains a useful and widely applicable framework,” says Madeline Eppley, a PhD Candidate at Northeastern University’s Marine Science Center, and Andy Lee, who recently completed a PhD at Purdue University, […]
Mass Live

Colleges are under pressure. What are they doing to reinvent themselves?

“We try to be proactive and plan ahead as opposed to being reactive and doing that after the market has changed,” Satyajit Dattagupta, Northeastern’s chief enrollment officer, said.
The Hechinger Report

The AI ‘hivemind’: Why so many student essays sound alike

Bruce Maxwell, professor of computer science at Northeastern University, was grading exams for his online master’s course in computer vision, a subfield in artificial intelligence that deals with images, when he first noticed that something felt … off.
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Man arrested in Edgewater ends up dead in ICE detention center

Reports by Stanford University, Northeastern University and others have raised concerns ranging from environmental conditions at Glades to “horrific conditions” and human rights abuses, according to the ACLU.
Minneapolis Star-Tribune

‘All it is is pain’: Jessie Diggins testing the limits of endurance

 “It’s all overwhelmingly trying to stop her from moving forward any longer,” said Rui Li, an associate clinical professor of exercise science at Northeastern University in Boston. Most likely she was experiencing dehydration.
Fortune

Women are avoiding the very technology that threatens them most, as expert warns of a ‘two-tiered AI economy’ approaching

Women are also less certain about the benefits of AI adoption, according to Beatrice Magistro and Sophie Borwein, assistant professors of political science at Northeastern University and the University of British Columbia, respectively.

The Role of Public Theology in Crisis

“We need to redefine that term for today,” said Liz Bucar, a professor of religion at Northeastern University and the author of a new book on religious innovation
Gizmodo

New Study Highlights Carbon Fiber Weakness That Sounds All Too Familiar After Titan Fiasco

Arun Bansil, a physicist at Northeastern University’s campus in Boston, told a campus publication that the “degrading effects of water absorption on the epoxy binding the carbon fibers in the composite” were worth paying attention to in “assessing the failure of Titan.”
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What the University of the Future Will Look Like

Northeastern University points in this direction with its co-op model, but still treats work and study as separate. The applied liberal-arts university would integrate them.

Inventor Beulah Louise Henry’s unstoppable rise to becoming ‘Lady Edison’

There were—and still remain today—both implicit and explicit biases against women inventors and some of the types of inventions they created, explains Kara Swanson, professor of law at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts.