The Washington Post calls a shooting in which four people are killed, excluding the shooter, a “mass killing with a gun,” because the term “mass shooting” has no universal definition. The database The Post uses is compiled by the Associated Press, USA Today and Northeastern University and dates to 2006. Learn more about mass killings here.

Leo Beletsky, a professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University, said he is concerned the high-profile bankruptcy case and the debate over financial accountability for the Sacklers have distracted from larger public policy issues, such as how to better regulate pharmaceutical companies and expand access to medications like naloxone that can prevent overdose deaths.

Tick follows Fitzgerald through her years with Chick Webb’s orchestra, subsequent tours with Jazz at the Philharmonic, and collaborations with numerous fellow icons such as Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, Nelson Riddle, and Count Basie. A former music history professor at Northeastern University, Tick writes authoritatively about the various subgenres that Fitzgerald dips into and out […]

The United States had 39 mass shootings in 2023 so far, according to a database maintained by the Associated Press, USA Today and Northeastern University, which defines a mass shooting as one in which at least four people are killed, not including the shooter.

Laura Edelson, an assistant professor of computer science at Northeastern University, likened this scholarship to efforts to understand the automobile. “The early cars were wildly unsafe, and we needed to study them and figure out how to make them safer,” she said. “This is why science exists, so we can both have these important things […]

Jennie C. Stephens is Dean’s professor of sustainability science and policy, Northeastern University. 

“Those are the ones who are the most likely to become sick enough to be taken to the hospital,” said Dr. Darin Detwiler, a professor of food policy and corporate social responsibility at Northeastern University and author of ”Food Safety: Past, Present, and Predictions.”