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Could new federal sentencing policy increase nation’s prison population?
Attorney General Jeff Sessions recently ordered federal prosecutors to charge criminal suspects with the most serious offense they can prove, replacing comparatively lenient guidelines issued by longtime Obama administration Attorney General Eric Holder. We asked associate professor Natasha Frost, a mass incarceration expert in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, to discuss the policy’s potential impact on public safety and the nation’s prison population.
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In first overseas trip, Trump must show he's ready to take on key global issues
President Donald Trump departed the White House on Friday to embark on his first foreign trip as commander in chief, a nine-day tour including stops in Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the Vatican. We asked professor John Portz, interim chair of the Department of Political Science, to examine the global significance of Trump’s visit to the symbolic homes of the world’s three Abrahamic faiths.
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What’s next for Puerto Rico’s debt crisis, and why Americans should pay attention
Faced with $123 billion in debt it cannot pay, Puerto Rico took the unprecedented step of filing for bankruptcy protection in a federal court last week. We asked assistant professor Amílcar Barreto, Puerto Rican politics expert, to weigh in on the territory’s debt crisis and its potential impact on the U.S. mainland.
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What are the odds? Two professors discover they lived in same childhood home
In fall 2016, Northeastern professors Shan Mohammed and Nicole Boyson discovered that they had, at separate times, lived in the same house in Elyria, Ohio, a bedroom community of 50,000 people. They were also born at the same hospital and even shared the same orthodontist.
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Professor honored for 45 years of service to Northeastern
John Cipolla, professor emeritus of mechanical and industrial engineering, likes to compare the thrill of teaching to the rush of driving a racecar. “It’s intense, but it’s the tension that keeps you mentally alert,” said Cipolla, who was recognized for his dedication to the university on Thursday afternoon.
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Northeastern co-hosts Capitol Hill briefing on coastal sustainability
panel of stakeholders, including U.S. congressmen and university researchers, discussed the threats facing coastal communities and the best practices for keeping them secure.
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Northeastern celebrates community’s highest achievements
The university recognized the outstanding accomplishments of a select group of students, faculty, staff, and alumni at the seventh-annual Academic Honors Convocation on Thursday afternoon in East Village. “What we are celebrating today is the excellence of this place, the innovation of this place, the creativity of this place, and the boundless energy of this place,” Northeastern President Joseph E. Aoun said.
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Where does Facebook Live go from here?
A Cleveland man recorded video of his murder of an innocent bystander on Sunday, posted the clip to Facebook, and then used Facebook Live to confess. We asked journalism professor John Wihbey to explain what the world’s largest social media network could do to ensure that more bad actors do not take advantage of its live video-streaming service.
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United’s PR crisis has ‘created opportunities’ for its competitors
United Airlines is facing a public relations crisis after security officers dragged a 69-year-old doctor off a flight from Chicago on Sunday. Professor Paul Fombelle, a marketing expert at Northeastern, says the fiasco has “created opportunities for its competitors to step up and show customers how much they value them as humans.”
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The global implications of Trump’s Syria strike
Was the Trump administration’s military strike in Syria a symbolic show of force or something more? According to assistant professor Max Abrahms, a terrorism theorist at Northeastern, it seems that the U.S. retaliatory strikes “were intended only to be a warning about the costs of using chemical weapons.”
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Professor calls helping refugees a moral obligation for US
Serena Parekh, associate professor of philosophy, believes that we have a moral obligation to solve the global refugee crisis. “Rather than objects of fear,” she said on Wednesday, during a lecture on the topic, “refugees ought to be objects of moral compassion.”
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Will Snapchat’s IPO flourish like Facebook's—or tumble like Twitter's?
Snap Inc., the parent company of Snapchat, went public last week, netting the tech giant $3.4 billion. But stock in the company has already begun to fall and Wall Street analysts are warning people not to buy it. We asked assistant professor Kuncheng Zheng, a corporate finance expert, to explain why people are so wary of the biggest tech IPO since Facebook.