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What’s Next for Computer Science Education?
Carla Brodley, who runs Northeastern’s Center for Inclusive Computing, answers five questions about her team’s efforts to make computer science more accessible to all students.
Another family feud threatens Market Basket. What is the board’s beef with Arthur T. this time?
“Did they not learn anything? … It’s reading like a soap opera,” observed Kimberly Eddleston, a professor of entrepreneurship at Northeastern University who studies family businesses. “Family business lives and dies by the family … You never go to the press, and you never go to the lawyers.”
LiveScience
Your moral compass is tied to how in tune you are with your body, study hints
“The idea is that feeling that anxiety is going to make you notice that you did something to cause that anxiety, and then make you try to avoid doing those things in the future,” said Jordan Theriault, a psychologist and biologist at Northeastern University who was not involved in the study.
Trump Administration Takes Action on Illegal Immigrants Getting Medicaid
Tiffany Joseph, a professor of sociology and international affairs at Northeastern University, told Newsweek: “This move will have a significant impact on the health care access and health of undocumented and even documented immigrants in states that use their own funds to provide nonemergency care to these populations.
Mass Live
Over a quarter of Boston Public’s valedictorians are going to this university — again
Nine Boston Public School valedictorians have committed to go to Northeastern University in the fall, more than twice as many valedictorians this year as any other college or university, according to Northeastern Global News, Northeastern’s official news outlet.
Marketplace
After a pandemic downturn, U.S. cities are growing again. That’s good news for this economy.
Cities create a disproportionate share of economic growth in the U.S., said Esteban Moro, director of the urban networks lab at Northeastern University. He said nothing beats being around other people “in terms of job creation, opportunities, innovation.”
Justin Bieber’s SZA performance, those videos and why fans are freaking out
“We are encouraged through the nature of social media, through the nature of fandom … to perceive ourselves as being in some sort of relationship with artists whose music we love,” Rebekah Moore, assistant professor of music at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, previously told USA TODAY.
The Cut
The Inner Voice vs. the Oncologist
If more Americans are choosing to trust their own research over their physicians’ opinions, just where is that research coming from? Briony Swire-Thompson is a cognitive psychologist at Northeastern University who has spent the past five years studying public-health misinformation.
Does Mass. need an official marine flora? Eelgrass fans say: Yes
“Even though seagrasses are ecologically as important as things like kelp forests and coral reefs and salt marsh ecosystems, people know a lot less about them,” said Randall Hughes, a marine biologist at Northeastern University and mother of one of the teenagers behind the project.
MIT Sloan Management Review
Why Belonging Matters More Than Just Diversity
Curtis L. Odom is an associate professor of management and organizational development at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University.
Forensic evidence takes center stage in Karen Read murder retrial
Still, Hanley’s testimony was “pretty effective” for the prosecution, according to Daniel Medwed, a professor of law at Northeastern University. “In a case like this that has so many big-picture, hyperbolic advocates, opponents and thinkers, having pedestrian, very technical testimony” to “ground it, I think is helpful”, Medwed said.
Prevention
The 10 Riskiest Foods to Eat Right Now, According to Food Safety Data
“As consumers, we often assume that if a product is sold in stores, it must be safe,” says Darin Detwiler, L.P.D., author of the book Food Safety: Past, Present, and Predictions and a professor at Northeastern University.