“It’s not difficult to do,” said Dan Distel, a marine biologist who serves as the director of Northeastern University’s Ocean Genome Legacy Center. “It’s not expensive to do. And of course, if we miss the opportunity, it’s too late.”

Neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett teaches psychology at Northeastern University and is one of the most influential voices in modern emotion research. Her central thesis : Feelings do not simply arise from situations. They are actively constructed by the brain – with the help of experience, expectation , and language.

While flu vaccines usually have an efficacy rate of 40% to 60%, an early report from the U.K. estimates this “super flu” strain has an efficacy rate of 32% to 39% in adults, and 72% to 75% in children, Northeastern University associate clinical professor Brandon Dionne said. 

Bhatia and co-authors at Northeastern University worry that pollinator declines are far more likely in India and most of Asia even under moderate warming. Tropical pollinator decline may accelerate through the 2040s, with the most severe impacts occurring after 2060.

Dr Neil Maniar, professor of public health practice at Northeastern University, has warned that the virus has not yet peaked. Boston, where Northeastern University is located, has been hit with a 114 percent surge in cases just days before Christmas.

“It’s not very well aligned with the vaccine this year, which means there is potentially a larger proportion of the population that is susceptible to the flu,” Neil Maniar, director of the master of public health program at Northeastern University, said in December.

“While consumers expect convenience and safety, the reality is that prewashed bagged greens remain one of the riskiest items in the grocery store due to contamination risks throughout the supply chain,” says Darin Detwiler, a professor of food policy at Northeastern University and author of “Food Safety: Past, Present, and Predictions.” 

Here & Now‘s Robin Young speaks with Dr. Neil Maniar, professor of public health practice at Northeastern University.

At Northeastern University, the state’s leading study abroad institution, students favor Spain, Australia, Italy and the U.K., said school spokesman Dan Sarro.

“Don’t set a long wish list with vague or all-or-nothing goals, and don’t rely solely on willpower,” said Hristina Nikolova, an associate professor of marketing at Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business.  

Data and public awareness about the true costs of these chemicals could spur more action, says Julia Varshavsky, an expert on endocrine-disrupting chemicals at Northeastern University who coauthored a 2018 study showing that dining out is associated with increased phthalates in the body.

Your brain is predictively regulating your body,” says Lisa Feldman Barrett, a neuroscientist at Northeastern University in Boston. “Your body is [then] sending signals back to your brain about the sensory conditions of the body and the sensory consequences of allostasis.”