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Gayle’s work has appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and elsewhere. Currently, he’s a fellow at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and a professor at Northeastern University.
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As American Architects Gather in Boston, Retrofits Are All the Rage

At Northeastern, an initiative called Equitable Zoning by Design offers visualizations of residential build-outs in areas being considered for rezoning. The idea is to conjure an easily repeatable urban design that will make dense multifamily development more acceptable to wary neighbors.
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Ex-Stoughton police officer charged with killing Sandra Birchmore did not father the baby she was carrying, DNA shows

“If the charges relate to the relationship when she was under 16, the fact that she was or was not carrying his child [at the time of her death] would seem to be somewhat irrelevant, except it would indicate they had a continuing relationship,” said Daniel Medwed, a professor of law at Northeastern University.
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Neither side in the Karen Read trial called Michael Proctor to testify. Was it the right choice?

Daniel Medwed, a criminal law professor at Northeastern University, suggested prosecutors may have felt Proctor would be somewhat hostile to the defense and knew that if Read’s lawyers called Proctor, they “would have the benefit of seeing what he said on direct and using cross-examination either to rehabilitate him or to try to show how […]
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Yes or No: It’s Smart to Launch a New Product in a Recession

“Obviously, figuring out the duration or intensity of a recession is not an exact science,” says Koen Pauwels, associate dean and distinguished professor of marketing at D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University.
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Trump defeat? Court to examine US election

Political scientist Costas Panagopoulos (Northeastern University) called for a thorough investigation but warned against jumping to conclusions: “Statistical irregularities should always be investigated. The sources of such inconsistencies, which may involve errors or miscalculations, are not always malicious.
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Boston saw its lowest homicide rate in over 60 years. Can the trend continue?

Over the past decade, around 70% of homicides in Boston have occurred in either Roxbury, Dorchester, or Mattapan, according to a report from Northeastern University with the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute.
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Watch: Full closing arguments in Karen Read murder trial

Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University, analyzes lawyers’ final remarks.
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Northeastern University researchers say axolotls could hold key to growing new limbs

Scientists from Northeastern University are trying to uncover the secret behind the axolotl’s limb-growing “superpower.” 
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Amazon has started selling AI video ads. What does this mean for digital marketing?

Northeastern University professor Koen Pauwels, who worked with Amazon ads, said he’s less worried about the melting faces and extra fingers that often showed up in early AI videos, and more about them becoming forgettable.
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Glow-in-the-dark axolotls reveal a clue in the mystery of limb regeneration

“A longstanding question in the field has been, what are the cues that tell cells at the injury site to grow back just the hand, for example, or to grow back an entire arm,” said senior study author James Monaghan, a professor of biology and director of the Institute for Chemical Imaging of Living Systems […]
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Axolotls may hold secret to regrowing human limbs

Axolotls have captured attention for their cuteness, but new research from Northeastern University shows the smiling salamanders could advance scientific goals to regrow human limbs.