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Knock it off!

“[The thinking is] a little bit of an ‘I deserve it,’” Alexandra J. Roberts, a professor at Northeastern University School of Law who has written about the dupes market, says. “‘It’s not my fault the economy is the way it is, and if I want nice things, I should be able to get them and get […]
Boston.com

Boston is the worst city in the U.S. for auto collisions, Allstate reports

However, as Northeastern University professor Peter Furth told the Globe, collisions aren’t everything — and Massachusetts ranks near the top for safety in terms of injury and death rates.
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Your Smartwatch Could Carry a Hidden Health Risk

In the U.S. only Michigan has a maximum contaminant level for PFHxA, specific to drinking water contamination, while several other states “have advisory or notification levels, or cleanup levels in groundwater, soil or fish tissue,” Phil Brown, the director of the Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute at Northeastern University, told Newsweek.
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After recent floods, Legislature must act now to strengthen climate resilience

Joan Fitzgerald is a professor in the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Northeastern University. 
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Massachusetts leans into artificial intelligence

Students with Northeastern University’s Innovate MA co-op program, for instance, worked on AI-based projects, including MBTA and MassHealth customer service improvements, improving state grant access, working with Massachusetts Department of Transportation highway design engineers, and creating a “generative AI sandbox” for state employees to experiment with AI tools. 
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Amid PFAS fallout, Maine residents navigate medical risks

Occupational and environmental health “is a very minimal part of the medical school curriculum,” said Phil Brown, co-director of the PFAS Project Lab at Northeastern University.
AFP

Trump’s budget hacksaw leaves public broadcasting on precipice

Dan Kennedy, a journalism professor at Northeastern University in Boston, stressed it is in those very areas where the funding cuts are likely to have “a devastating effect.”
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Chatbots in the classroom: how AI is reshaping higher education

Northeastern University, became one of the first institutions to strike a deal with Anthropic. For Javed Aslam, the university’s AI chief, it was Anthropic’s focus on responsible AI use and its willingness to adapt models to the college’s needs that won the institution’s business.
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Bitcoin in 2025: Speculative Bubble or Sustainable Boom?

According to Ravi Sarathy, a cryptocurrency expert and professor of international business and strategy at Northeastern University in Boston, large institutional investors, including MicroStrategy, have accumulated large amounts of the asset, which is why they may be supporting the cryptocurrency’s price. MicroStrategy holds a Bitcoin stash worth approximately $65 billion.
Barron's

Trump’s Budget Hacksaw Leaves Public Broadcasting On Precipice

Dan Kennedy, a journalism professor at Northeastern University in Boston, stressed it is in those very areas where the funding cuts are likely to have “a devastating effect.”
Portland Press Herald

Northeastern’s Roux Institute to launch program bolstering Yarmouth’s small businesses

Yarmouth is partnering with Northeastern University’s Roux Institute to help small business owners in Yarmouth expand and modernize their operations. It is the first Roux Institute partnership with a Maine municipality, and organizers hope it won’t be the last.
Fortune

Fyre Festival sells on eBay for $245K, a sum so low it wouldn’t have been able to afford disgraced founder Billy McFarland some tickets at his own event

With so much scorched earth behind it, Fyre Festival will be an ambitious revival project, according to Andrew Mall, an associate professor of music at Northeastern University. Its failed second iteration only confirmed people’s beliefs in the brand’s failure following the 2017 scandal, he said.