“It is difficult for us to grasp just how little was understood about the world’s most out-of-the-way places” in the mid-20th century, writes Ms. Heefner, a professor of history at Northeastern University and the author of “The Missile Next Door: The Minuteman in the American Heartland” (2012). 

“It really did incredible things,” said Craig Ferris, PhD, professor of psychology and pharmaceutical sciences at Northeastern and the study’s corresponding author. “What we found was that with head injuries is that functional connections go down across the brain.”

Nada Sanders, Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management at Northeastern University, told Newsweek: “The reality is that supply chains take time to shift and reverse course, reroute, ramp up and slow down. Impacts on supply chains and global trade take time manifest and even more time to reverse course.

Aron Stubbins studies the carbon cycle at Northeastern University in the United States. The circulation of this element is fundamental to life, and plastic may be disrupting it.

Swire-Thompson, a psychologist at Northeastern University, studies misinformation—but not the political lies that get most of the attention. She’s interested in false information about cancer, and why people fall for it. “There’s a lot of people online trying to sell their snake oil,” she says.

Laura Lewis, distinguished university professor of chemical engineering at Northeastern University, said in February that the accessibility and amount of the minerals Ukraine might have do not seem to be of a level that would even be economically competitive with what the U.S. already has access to.

Why do so many people care? “It involves a police officer and the possibility of police misconduct or even a cover-up,” said Laurel Ahnert, an assistant teaching professor at Northeastern University who taught a class on true crime.

“Bread is a pantry staple, but it’s also a prime target for mold, which raises both quality and safety concerns,” Darin Detwiler, PhD, a food safety expert and associate teaching professor at Northeastern University’s College of Professional Studies, tells SELF.

Matthew B. Ross, a professor at Northeastern University who often serves as an expert witness in cases in which the department reaches consent decrees to reform local police departments, said he had heard from lawyers in the division he had worked with that they would be leaving.

“Content takedowns on Facebook just don’t matter all that much, because of how long they take to happen,” said Laura Edelson, an assistant professor of computer science at Northeastern University and the lead author of the paper in the Journal of Online Trust and Safety.

Gregory D. Abowd, professor of electrical and computer engineering at Northeastern University.

Companies’ ad spending tends to track gross domestic product pretty closely, said marketing professor Koen Pauwels at Northeastern University.