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Weiling Liu, a new assistant professor of finance, studies how business decisions made at some of the largest financial institutions in the world affect the people who depend upon those institutions for their banking, insurance, and more. Photo by Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University
Business

Consumers don’t always have the tools to understand what’s in their best financial interest. She wants to help.

“Usually when you’re creating, you create the form first, and then pick a color for it,” said Tomislav Topić, one half of the Berlin-based street art duo Quintessenz. “We want to put the color first.” Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

New public art installation by Quintessenz brings color to Richardson Plaza

According to new research by Northeastern assistant professor Susan Mello, teenage exposure to secondhand aerosols was even more prevalent in 2018 than their e-cigarette use during the same time. Photo via iStock
Health

The Trump administration ban on flavored e-cigarettes wouldn’t just affect teens who vape; it would help their peers inhaling secondhand aerosol as well

People who knew that the models in ad campaigns such as the Aerie Real campaign had been told in advance that their images wouldn’t be airbrushed, and nevertheless agreed to be photographed, felt better about their own bodies in return, according to new research by Rachel Rodgers. Aerie company stock on Sept. 11, 2019. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University
Society & Culture

When brands like Aerie, CVS, and Dove stop airbrushing their models, everyone wins

A United Launch Alliance Delta IV rocket lifts off from space launch complex 37 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station with the second Global Positioning System III payload on Thursday, Aug. 22, 2019, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

Will Space Command help or hurt international relations in space?

“You see the beauty of this diversity is that each of you is looking at issues, challenges, and opportunities in a different way,” President Joseph E. Aoun told the thousands of freshmen and transfer students who filled Matthews Arena for the President’s Convocation on Tuesday. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

New students at Northeastern University’s 2019 President’s Convocation urged to tackle big, global challenges

stock image of people standing on a hospital-like floor
Society & Culture

Could medicine be the next industry to come under scrutiny in the #MeToo era?

Lights illuminate the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 21, 2018. The budget deficit—the gap between what the government spends and what it takes in through taxes and other sources of revenue—is expected to reach $960 billion for this fiscal year, which ends on Sept. 30. The deficit will widen to $1 trillion by fiscal year 2020. AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite

The federal deficit is expected to reach $1 trillion by 2020. Here’s what that means.

What’s really at stake in the trade war between the US and China?

Society & Culture

Here’s the secret to unlocking our compassion in the face of mass suffering

Stock photo of the The New York Times Magazine on Aug. 20, 2019. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

What we can learn from the backlash to The New York Times’ 1619 Project, a history of slavery in America

State and regional law enforcement records likely reflect less than 10 percent of trafficking victims in the area, according to new research by Amy Farrell, a Northeastern University professor who studies human trafficking. Photo by iStock
Society & Culture

Human trafficking in the US is a much bigger problem than we think