So how long will this eruption last? Daniel Douglass, teaching professor in marine and environmental sciences at Northeastern University’s Marine Science Center, believes it could be weeks, or even months, before it stops. 

But those particles would need to be spewed high into the atmosphere to have any climate impacts, said Daniel Douglass, a professor at Northeastern University who has studied past climate changes. There, they can linger for months, but closer to earth, they quickly fall to the planet’s surface.

Since COVID’s arrival, experts have been fearfully predicting a winter worst: three respiratory-virus epidemics washing over the U.S. at once. Last year, those fears didn’t really play out, Sam Scarpino, an infectious-disease modeler at Northeastern University, told me.

Economist and housing specialist Barry Bluestone, professor emeritus at Northeastern University, called Wu’s proposal “as close to the perfect rent control bill as possible. It should not have any impact on new housing construction, but it would possibly reduce some of the dramatic increases in rents.”

Adam Hosein, a faculty member at The Ethics Institute at Northeastern University said he saw no issue with the party. “It’s perfectly acceptable for elected officials of color to get together to discuss their shared experiences and challenges,” said Hosein, who is an associate professor of philosophy, an affiliate law professor, and director of the […]

There’s no “one-size-fits-all” approach, said Sarah Peck, director of the UnitedOnGuns initiative of Northeastern University’s Public Health Advocacy Institute. Officials’ biggest consideration should be the psychological impact on those affected, said Peck, who helped create a handbook for local officials on handling mass shootings. Survivors should “have a big voice” in the decision, she said.

“This particular case illustrates how norms have changed in the field,” said Katherine Kraschel, assistant professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University. “You could see how, if the norm is collecting a fresh sample from a medical resident on site that day, the opportunity for physicians to do this would be readily available,” […]