Prof Sam Scarpino, a professor of the Practice in Health Sciences and Computer Science at Northeastern University, added that the list of symptoms is reassuring. Conjunctivitis is a common symptom of bird flu in people, because our eyes actually contain “bird-flu-friendly” receptor cells. 

According to Dan Kennedy, a journalism professor at Northeastern University who writes a popular local blog called Media Nation, Gannett’s chief content officer, Kristin Roberts, told Mike Blinder of the podcast “E&P Reports” that there would be more hires in coming months.

Stephen E. Flynn, a professor of political science and expert in critical infrastructure and supply chain resilience at Northeastern University, agreed that not every bridge in the country needs massive safety upgrades. But the bridges that serve major ports would benefit from modern protections.

“A lot of research on animals and technology is about trying to understand: What can animals do?” says study co-author Rébecca Kleinberger, a researcher at Northeastern University, to the New York Times’ Emily Anthes. “And what I always try to do is reframe the question to: What can we do for them?”

It may be several weeks or a couple months before enough of the channel is cleared that the port can start to be incrementally opened up, said Stephen Flynn, a professor of political science and civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern University.

“Everybody right now is saying, ‘We’re just going to reroute, it’s going to be fine,’” says Nada Sanders, an expert in supply chain management at Northeastern University. “If this lasts a while, it’s not going to be fine. It’s going to impact prices.”

Saiph Savage has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of California and a specialist in artificial intelligence. She is also a professor at Northeastern University, Khoury College of Computer Science; She directs the Civic Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, she collaborates with the Mexican federal government, UNAM and NGOs. 

But believing unearthly beings are here to teach us, and yearning to commune with them, fills the same spiritual need humans have sought to meet for millennia. David DeSteno is a professor of psychology at Northeastern University and host of the podcast “How God Works: The Science Behind Spirituality.”

Even before that, a ham-fisted public relations strategy by the royal family’s handlers had lost control of the narrative, said Peter Mancusi, a journalism professor at Northeastern University and a lawyer with his own business in crisis counseling.

Dan Urman, a law professor at Northeastern University, told Newsweek on Tuesday that he believed the Court would rule 7-2, with conservative Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas dissenting.

As search and rescue efforts continue, we speak with NPR reporters and hear from Stephen Flynn, an expert in critical infrastructure and a former officer in the U.S. Coast Guard.

“Investing in infrastructure is critical for the public good, and it’s critical to address those aging infrastructure,” said Jerome Hajjar, president of the Structural Engineering Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers.