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Jackson, Thomas Offer Dueling History of Birthright Citizenship

Thomas’ position is one often adopted by those looking to reorient birthright citizenship, according to Northeastern University law professor Rachel Rosenbloom.
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Samuel Alito Defends Kids of Migrants Staying in the US

Northeastern University School of Law professor Rachel Rosenbloom told Newsweek that Alito is misreading the Fourteenth Amendment.
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What a Great College Education Should Look Like In An AI World

One approach makes the workplace part of the curriculum. Northeastern University builds its undergraduate program around co-op, where students alternate full semesters of coursework with full semesters of paid, full-time work across multiple employers and industries.
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Don’t dump that steak — yet: The truth behind “best-by” dates

“From a leadership perspective, this represents a rare opportunity where profitability and sustainability may align rather than compete,” Darin Detweiler, a food safety policy expert and professor at Northeastern University’s College of Professional Studies, told Fox News Digital.
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When the heat doesn’t stop

This was a multimedia reporting project of the Media Innovation Studio at Northeastern University’s School of Journalism. The reporting team for this story was Lin Chen, Jeta Perjuci, and Yaron Porat-Gibsh, working with journalism professor Dan Zedek.

Many Child Safety Features on Social Apps Don’t Work, Report Finds

Child safety features on the most popular social media apps often don’t work as advertised, a new report found. Researchers at New York University and Northeastern University tested dozens of safety features promoted by Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube in recent years, as the products came under fire for enabling adolescent loneliness, bullying and sexual […]
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More than half of social media child safety features aren’t working as advertised, new research finds

To the Cybersafety Research Center, a joint initiative from New York University and Northeastern University, the findings show social media harms to kids “are not hypothetical, and that when they do occur the consequences can be irreversible.”

Quote of the Day: Venezuelan Civilians Fill the Gaps One ‘Grain of Sand’ at a Time

“Most people aren’t saved by uniformed responders. Most people are saved by neighbors who know where they slept in the rubble.” Daniel Aldrich, who studies disaster resilience at Northeastern University, speaking about the civilian response to the earthquakes in Venezuela.
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Boston Harbor has become a fishing mecca after cleanup efforts: ‘There are fish everywhere’

Loretta Fernandez, an associate professor at Northeastern University who is a member of an independent scientific body that reviews data on the harbor cleanup, said that before the cleanup, microbes feasting on the organic matter that was getting dumped into the harbor were removing the oxygen from the water. 
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An anonymous German soccer fan has become an online World Cup phenomenon. But is Freddy for real?

“How Americans are responding to Freddy tells us something about how we want to be viewed, and what we want to believe about how others see us,” said Abbie DeCamp, an English professor at Northeastern University who specializes in internet culture and memes. “What if we were this entranced by our own cultural outputs?”
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Venezuela Earthquakes: Neighbors Did What The State Could Not

Daniel Aldrich, the Northeastern University political scientist whose work anchors this field, has argued that the depth of a community’s social ties can shape its trajectory through a disaster, and Venezuela illustrated the point in its starkest form. 

In Venezuela’s Ruins, Civilians Fill the Gaps One ‘Grain of Sand’ at a Time

Disaster tolls depend not only on government capacity but also on community resilience, said Daniel Aldrich, who studies disaster resilience at Northeastern University.