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Can the Dept. of Transportation and Sean Duffy fix an antiquated and frequently broken air traffic control system?

Michele Polese is an assistant research professor of electrical and computer engineering at Northeastern University and expert in wireless networks. He called the plan to upgrade the air traffic control system an “initial investment” that in the long run, will allow for a financial savings on money spent on maintenance and updates.
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New cold front? Kashmir standoff raises specter of US-China proxy fight

Max Abrahms, an expert on terrorism at Northeastern University, told Fox News Digital that the fight over Kashmir could now become a venue for U.S.-China competition.
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Explainer: How does US food safety work, and what cuts has Trump made?

Disbanding the DOJ’s Consumer Protection Branch removes the legal teeth needed to hold such violators accountable, said Darin Detwiler, an associate teaching professor at Northeastern University who wrote a book about food safety.
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48 Great Colleges Here And Abroad That Are Still Accepting Applications

Consider Northeastern University, a popular Boston-based school with 16,000 undergraduates. Until the 1990s it was largely considered a commuter college. Over the last ten years its admissions rate has plunged from 32% to 5.2% in 2024, for its Class of 2028. 
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In flirting with violating court order, Trump tries to pass the buck to ‘my lawyers’

Presidents have steered clear of direct involvement with the Justice Department since the abuses by President Nixon during the Watergate scandal. But Trump has changed that approach, choosing his Justice Department appointees “for loyalty, not independence,” said Dan Urman, who teaches courses on the Supreme Court at Northeastern University.
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Over 1,000 Oakland Teens Are Getting Guaranteed Admission to Cal State East Bay

Oakland Unified has partnered with the private Northeastern University, Oakland, to award up to 10 students a year with full tuition, room and board.
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Forbes Daily: AI Models Are Hallucinating More Despite Advancements

For a variety of reasons, elite college admissions are becoming an impossible dream—even for perfect students. Today, 19 of 20 applications submitted to nearly all of the schools in the Ivy League are rejected. And it’s not just the super elite: Admission rates are plunging at popular schools like Northeastern University and New York University.
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Donald Trump’s Approval Rating Is Underwater in Florida and Texas

Costas Panagopoulos, a professor of political science at Northeastern University, told Newsweek: “The overall picture for Trump in these polls is not pretty. Even if some shifts appear insignificant, the trend lines suggest Trump approval is dropping in almost every state as well as in the national as a whole. Trump approval has dropped precipitously in key […]
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Relationships 2.0: Keeping Love Alive

Mentions insights from psychologist Lisa Feldman Barrett at Northeastern University on how our brain interprets emotion.
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Scuzz Nation, the death of English literature & are you a bad house guest?

So can English literature still teach us how to read deeply in an age of diminishing attention spans? Philip joins the podcast alongside Orlando Reade, author and assistant professor at Northeastern University London, where he teaches English and creative writing.
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Why AI ‘Hallucinations’ Are Worse Than Ever

Usama Fayyad, executive director of Northeastern University’s Institute for Experiential Artificial Intelligence, told Northeastern Global News the term “hallucination” attributes “too much to the model,” including intent and consciousness, which AI bots do not have.
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An ‘extremely joyful day’ for US Catholics as Leo XIV becomes first pope from US

William Miles, a professor of political science at Northeastern University in Boston, had considered the selection of an U.S.-born pope a dark-horse possibility as a “theo-political” response to social policies in the United States with which Pope Francis had expressed dismay.