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Boston Takes On Dirty Stormwater

Now, 12 years after construction was completed, the Mystic River Watershed Association is collaborating with a researcher from Northeastern University to study the wetland’s impact on water quality. Results are still pending, but in other places, constructed wetlands have removed between 45 and 90 percent of the phosphorus from urban stormwater. 
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How tech pinpoints urban heat islands and makes cooling projects easier

The Common SENSES project is a collaboration of community-based organizations, including the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative and Project Right Inc.; university researchers like me who are affiliated with Northeastern University’s Boston Area Research Initiative; and Boston city officials. It was created to pursue data-driven, community-led solutions for improving the local environment.
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White-collar workers are ditching their human coworkers for AI BFFs

Colleagues are more inclined to see them as dependent on the technology, less creative, and lacking growth potential, says David De Cremer, a behavioral scientist and Dunton Family Dean of Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business. “It’s objectification by association,” he says
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‘I’m sitting behind the bench’: Inside sports’ escalating stalking problem

“Restraining and protective orders become sort of your first line of defense,” said Carlos Cuevas, a professor of criminology and criminal justice at Northeastern University.
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Bolivia’s Right-wing On Cusp Of Power, In 20-year First

After nearly 20 years in power, “the government simply has no one else to blame,” Pablo Calderon Martinez, a researcher at Northeastern University in London, argued.
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Labor unions mobilize to challenge advance of algorithms in workplaces

“We cannot allow AI and technology to be our next NAFTA,” she said on an episode of the podcast “Power At Work” released Tuesday by the Burnes Center for Social Change at Northeastern University. 
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Appeal asks Supreme Court to nullify same-sex unions in the US

Still, Daniel Urman, a law professor at Northeastern University, told Newsweek that it’s unlikely the Supreme Court will agree to overturn same-sex marriage.

This sculpture at the UN is covered in more trash each day as nations work toward ending plastic pollution

Standing by the sculpture, Maria Ivanova, an expert in international environmental governance, said it “wakes you up.” Ivanova is the co-director of the Plastics Center at Northeastern University in Boston.
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Supreme Court Faces Decision on Case Urging Overturn of Same-Sex Marriage

Daniel Urman, law professor at Northeastern University, told Newsweek it is unlikely the Supreme Court would agree to overturn same-sex marriage.
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Why our girlboss era is OVER

“Desires are something that can be tapped into, but they’re also something that are manufactured,” said Suzanna Danuta Walters, a sociology professor at Northeastern. Part of the work of pop culture is to tell us what we want, whether that’s a water bottle, a red light mask, or a whole ideology. “The thing about forms of dominance […]

Elizabeth Mynatt on Universities and the Importance of Basic Research

Today we talk to Elizabeth Mynatt, Dean of Computer Sciences at Northeastern, both about her own research in “human-centered computing,” and about the bigger-picture issues of why basic research is important, and why universities are such good places to do it.
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Artist drowns sculpture in plastic waste in front of the UN during plastic pollution treaty talks

Standing by the sculpture, Maria Ivanova, an expert in international environmental governance, said it “wakes you up.” Ivanova is the co-director of the Plastics Center at Northeastern University in Boston.