But the rise in cases is likely more complicated than that, according to Darin Detwiler, author of Food Safety: Past, Present, and Predictions and a professor at Northeastern University. “Our food system has become increasingly interconnected,” he says. 

Early mugshots were primarily used as a law enforcement tool for alerting a community about a potential offender or for gathering tips, says Sarah Lageson, an associate professor of law and criminology at Northeastern University.

Daniel S. Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University in Boston, tells PEOPLE that the Massachusetts law surrounding a lack-of-criminal-responsibility defense is complex.

“The state’s labor force has continued to shrink, but productivity gains — running about half a percentage point above the corresponding U.S. measure — continue to keep Massachusetts’ growth slightly ahead of the nation’s,” Alan Clayton-Matthews, senior contributing editor and professor emeritus of economics and public policy at Northeastern University, said in a statement.

When Victoria Cain, a professor at Northeastern University who studies the history of museums and education, described museums’ role in life today, she made them sound like a tonic to the most charged parts of contemporary discourse. 

While Northeastern has been on our Alt-Ivy list several times in the past, it continues to qualify based on its numbers. 

“When I tell people I’m burning iron, they don’t believe it,” says Yiannis Levendis, a combustion engineer and sustainable fuel technologist at Northeastern University. 

Dr. Neil Maniar, a professor of public health at Northeastern University in Boston, added that this rise can be associated with summer travel, as people are spending more time in confined places with crowds.

Medical malpractice lawsuits involving psychiatric patients can be especially challenging because they often hinge on competing expert testimony about whether providers met the standard of care, David Simon, a health care law professor at Boston-based Northeastern University, said.

I recently talked with Lance Eaton, Senior Associate Director of AI and Teaching & Learning at Northeastern University and writer of AI + Education = Simplified. We traded ideas about what’s actually working. We came up with 10 specific, practical ways anyone who teaches, coaches, or leads can put AI to work.

Researchers from Northeastern University and Harvard Medical School set out to identify medications that are already approved and available for purchase that could be used in longevity and aging studies.

Yet even as cases are low in most places, a summer increase isn’t surprising, said Dr. Neil Maniar, a professor of public health at Northeastern University in Boston.