Northeastern University’s Roux Insitute held a design contest for the Alfond Center on its new, $500 million Portland campus. The design needed to embody Maine, leading the CambridgeSeven architecture firm to the historic span between Orr’s and Bailey islands.

“The process of discontinuing the penny in the U.S. is a little unclear,” Robert Triest, an economics professor at Northeastern University, said in a post last month. “It would likely require an act of Congress, but the Secretary of the Treasury might be able to simply stop the minting of new pennies.”

Robert Triest, an economist professor at Northeastern University, says “the process of discontinuing the penny in the US is a little unclear”.

“The process of discontinuing the penny in the U.S. is a little unclear. It would likely require an act of Congress, but the Secretary of the Treasury might be able to simply stop the minting of new pennies,” Robert Triest, an economics professor at Northeastern University, told the Northeastern Global News.

For Ruth Aguilera, an expert on sovereign funds and professor at Northeastern University in Boston and at the Esade business school, this mention is significant because of what it says about their future independence.

Today on AirTalk, we check in on the television news industry to see where it stands and where its going. Joining us are David Folkenflik, media correspondent for NPR, and Dan Kennedy, professor of journalism Northeastern University.

“The foresight here is pretty impressive, because obviously, ‘threepeat’ has become a valuable term,” said Alexandra Roberts, a professor at the Northeastern University School of Law.

Dan Urman, a Northeastern University law professor, told NBC News: “The bottom line is that our system is predicated on good faith, but also the rule of law in America means that the government abides by court rulings.”