Oakland Unified has partnered with the private Northeastern University, Oakland, to award up to 10 students a year with full tuition, room and board.

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.

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 […]

Mentions insights from psychologist Lisa Feldman Barrett at Northeastern University on how our brain interprets emotion.

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.

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.

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.

John P. Wihbey, director of the AI-media strategies lab at Northeastern University in Boston, told Reuters on Monday that Trump is exploiting an “uncharted territory,” which is the “merging of social media and AI power, organized for political power and narrative dominance.”

Jill Abramson, a former executive editor of The New York Times, teaches journalism at Northeastern University and is a contributing Globe Opinion writer.

The other panelists were: Michelle Anderson, president and CEO of Junior Achievement of Maine; Mufalo Chitam, executive director of the Maine Immigrants’ Rights Coalition; Andrea Cianchette Maker, co-founder and president of FocusMaine; and Liz Kohler, managing director of strategy, operations and growth, at Northeastern University’s Roux Institute.

Economist Alicia Modestino of Northeastern University is also affiliated with J-PAL. For decades, she says, the Boston Summer Youth Employment Program has aimed “to reduce inequality of opportunity by increasing access to early employment experiences for disadvantaged youth.” 

(An easy way to think of this, says Laura Lewis, an engineer at Northeastern University in Massachusetts, is as a measure of the effort needed to prise a magnet off a steel filing cabinet).