Dan Kennedy, who has taught journalism at Northeastern for more than 20 years, described Healy’s return to the Globe as a “big deal” to the Business Journal Thursday — and a logical one for both Healy and the Globe amid rising threats to public media.

Most commercially available hydroponic lettuce in the U.S. is grown indoors using controlled environment agriculture, where growers manage temperature, humidity, lighting, irrigation, and other environmental conditions to optimize the plant’s growth, says Darin Detwiler, PhD, a professor at Northeastern University. 

Peter Mancusi, a PR professional and communications professor at Northeastern University, said the distinction comes down to self-sufficiency and confidence: It’s not “I need you,” but “I want you.”

A new study of rats from Northeastern University has provided some glimmerings of what may happen when mescaline works its magic on the brain.

While next-generation sequencing and mass spectrometry approaches helped researchers assign protein-coding genes to certain parts of the genome, “there [were] a lot of other parts of datasets that [we] didn’t know how to make sense of,” said Sudhakaran Prabakaran, a systems and computational biologist at Northeastern University.

One of my favorite places to visit is the Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections. Over the past few decades, the university has really invested in building its special collections.

“It’s not really incorporating the severity and impact,” said Darin Detwiler, a food safety advocate and former professor of food policy and corporate social responsibility at Northeastern University.

The president is an influential figure, and his inaccurate comments about the dangers of vaccines and a long-disproven connection to autism can have resounding effects, said Wendy Parmet, faculty co-director of the Center for Health Policy and Law at Northeastern University.

Northeastern University took over Marymount Manhattan College, for instance.

One detail the data also reveals: criminologists at Northeastern University have documented a significant decline in US serial killings from the 1990s peak. The golden age of the American serial killer appears to be, cautiously, behind us.

But many victims avoid health care settings, said Amy Farrell, director of Northeastern University’s School of Criminology and Criminal Justice.

Costas Panagopoulos, a professor of political science at Northeastern University, said the ousting of older incumbents signals that voters are tired of a gerontocracy—being ruled by the elderly—and want change.