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10/25/24 – BOSTON, MA. – Laurel Gabard-Durnam, assistant professor of psychology and the director of Plasticity in Neurodevelopment (PINE) Lab at Northeastern, poses for a portrait in ISEC on Friday, Oct. 25, 2024. Photo by Alyssa Stone/Northeastern University

Northeastern University professor honored with prestigious American Psychological Association award

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December 12, 2025

Laurel Gabard-Durnam, whose work focuses on brain plasticity and creating real-world tools, will receive the Boyd McCandless Award in August, 2026.

A white Vermont road sign with a green border reads "North 14." It sticks out of a flooded street with buildings and a tractor in the background and an overcast sky. — FILE-A small tractor clears water from a business as flood waters block a street, Wednesday, July 12, 2023, in Barre, Vt. Communities still reeling from climate-fueled storms and other natural disasters, from the wildfires in Maui to severe flooding in New England, fear a federal government shutdown will delay needed disaster relief.(AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Breakthrough research uses machine learning to better predict New England floods

Science & Technology

December 10, 2025

Researchers at Northeastern University used machine learning to aggregate nearly five decades of weather data to better understand the factors that lead to New England flooding.

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The AI industry has a problem: Chatbots are too nice

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December 8, 2025

Northeastern researchers developed a new model to test for AI sycophancy and how much it impacts the chatbots’ accuracy and rationality.

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US mass killings drop to 20-year low. Some policy shifts might be helping.

There have been 17 mass killings, 14 of which involved guns, recorded this year, according to a database maintained by Northeastern University, in partnership with the Associated Press and USA Today

Mass killings fall to lowest level in nearly two decades, national database shows

The database, maintained by The Associated Press, USA Today and Northeastern University, defines a mass killing as an incident in which four or more people are intentionally killed within a 24-hour period, excluding the perpetrator.

This book chronicles the British aristocrat who dedicated her life to social justice

I chatted with Kaplan, who is the Davis Distinguished Professor of American Literature at Northeastern University, about Mitford and her legacy.

The secret life of Decca, the most rebellious Mitford sister

Troublemaker: The Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford by Carla Kaplan is published on Dec 4.

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One of the six famous Mitford sisters, Jessica — known as Decca, a childhood nickname — was a left-wing activist first and muckraking journalist second, best known for “The American Way of Death,” her scathing 1963 exposé of the funeral industry.

Days of Decca

Now Carla Kaplan brings us Troublemaker, the first biography of Jessica, the runaway Mitford who decamped to America, joined the Communist Party, and became a successful author, named by Time magazine as “Queen of the Muckrakers.”

Jessica was the only Mitford worth taking seriously

In the wake of all this, Carla Kaplan’s exhaustively researched and thorough account of Jessica (or Decca, as everyone knew her and Kaplan calls her throughout) comes as a welcome relief.

Reintroducing Jessica Mitford, the Activist With a ‘Concrete Upper Lip’

Carla Kaplan’s biography “Troublemaker” focuses on the fierce political commitments of the journalist best known for “The American Way of Death.”

New books this week: A tome on capitalism, a deep dive on crosswords and more

Troublemaker: The Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford, by Carla Kaplan.

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