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From Roxbury Community College to BU, colleges are using AI to cut down on operating costs

Now as the school expands its offerings in Toronto and New York, it is using Claude, an Anthropic-backed AI assistant that Northeastern licenses, to generate much of the framework in under 10 minutes, saving enormous staff time, said Mary Ludden, senior vice president for strategic initiatives at Northeastern.
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Are eSIMs safe? The dark side of virtual cards.

As with many technologies, however, this one is not free from dark sides: a recent paper by researchers including Aanjhan Ranganathan of Northeastern University presented at the Usenix Security Symposium in Seattle, a reference event on computer security, lists them.
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Why are U.S. states racing to redraw voting maps ahead of 2026 mid-term elections?

Jeremy R. Paul, Northeastern University Professor of Law, joins Global’s Nivrita Ganguly to discuss the impact of redistricting by U.S. states like Texas and California, and how fruitful U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to ban mail-in voting will be.
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To prepare students for an AI world, colleges should give them a break from AI

Op-ed by Simon J. Rabinovitch, a professor of history and codirects the Humanities Center at Northeastern University.
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Trump’s pledge to scrap mail-in voting could throw U.S. elections into a tailspin

“This is really not a hard question — the president cannot do it. Period,” Jeremy Paul, a professor at the Northeastern University School of Law who studies elections, said in an interview with CBC News.
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‘A double-whammy problem’: how plastic dust is altering natural processes

But that assessment depends on how much the circulation changes. According to biogeochemist Aron Stubbins at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, “ocean circulation is really hard to predict”. 
The New Yorker

Will the MAHA Moms Turn on Trump?

“If the Trump Administration went after agriculture and food companies, the ripple effects throughout Republican House districts, in particular, will be pretty major,” Christopher Bosso, a professor of public policy and political science at Northeastern University, told me.
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Irate parents turn to legal action over the marketing of so-called ‘toddler milks’

The lawsuit was filed by attorney Andrew Rainer, director of the Center for Public Health Litigation, a nonprofit public interest law practice at the Northeastern University School of Law in Boston
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America is Aging—and It’s Not Ready, Researchers Warn

The research by Northeastern University analyzes access to essential services for older adults across the U.S.
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Job-seekers in Southern Mass. are hit hard by unemployment as hiring deteriorates throughout the state

“It’s not surprising if the state’s economy is weakening, you would expect that the outlying areas are probably weakening more or faster or first,” said Alan Clayton-Matthews, an associate professor emeritus of economics and public policy at Northeastern University.
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As Trump Deploys Troops To D.C., Research Shows Crime Is Already At Historic Lows

At the same time, researchers at Northeastern University’s Crime Prevention Lab are sounding a different kind of alarm. 
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Zelensky’s Red Line for Putin Peace Talks

NATO membership and maintaining Ukrainian land are at the “core of Ukraine’s right to self-determination and sovereignty as a nation” and are unlikely to be concessions Zelensky is willing to make, Mai’a Cross, an international affairs professor at Northeastern University, told Newsweek.