“Most people think of meat or dairy when they worry about food poisoning, but rice is one of the most common causes globally,” Darin Detwiler, PhD, a food safety expert and associate teaching professor at Northeastern University’s College of Professional Studies, tells SELF.

Superstars Cardi B, Ed Sheeran, and Rosé gave the Northeastern University class of 2025 well wishes at their commencement ceremony in Fenway Park on May 11.

“More transparency is always a win for consumers,” says Andrew Mall, an associate professor of music at Northeastern University. However, “if there are any consumers who have been expecting fewer fees as a result, they will be disappointed.”

The first bit of encouraging news comes from criminology professor James Alan Fox, who oversees the Associated Press/USA Today/Northeastern University Mass Killing Database: So far this year, there have been zero deadly mass shootings in a public place. By comparison, there were three in 2024, and a record 10 the year before that.

While cruise lines take issues of crime seriously, Dr James Fox, a professor of criminology at Northeastern University in Boston, regularly studies this data and says the rate of violent crime at sea is around 95 per cent lower than an average US city.

The CEO of Atlantic Music Group had some advice for new graduates of Boston’s Northeastern University: don’t give up when you’re told “no.”

The 2025 senior class of Northeastern University is moving up in the world, but not before getting a proper sendoff from Cardi B, ROSÉ and Ed Sheeran at their commencement ceremony on Sunday (May 11).

The Himalayas. Your neighbor’s brain. Your friend’s uterus. And dispersed throughout the ocean. “We find plastics there,” said Aron Stubbins, a professor of marine and environmental sciences at Northeastern University.

Over the summer, the group began to collaborate with Assadi and a new team member,  Soheil Behnezhad of Northeastern University. But rather than striving for incremental improvements, they sought a more fundamental gain. 

John Lowrey, assistant professor of supply chain and information management and health sciences at Northeastern University, said companies’ ability to price gouge may depend on how long the economic disruption will ultimately last.

Op-ed by James Alan Fox, a professor of criminology, law and public policy at Northeastern University and the author of “Extreme Killing: Understanding Serial and Mass Murder.” He oversees the Associated Press/USA Today/Northeastern University Mass Killing Database.

Jeremy Paul, constitutional law professor at Northeastern University, gave his insight about the First Amendment being challenged in today’s political climate.