“I think we should pause before creating additional criminal liability for people practicing reproductive medicine,” said Katherine L. Kraschel, assistant professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University. 

“I have patients who gamble in the shower. I have patients who gamble before they get out of bed in the morning … there are no guardrails,” gambling addiction therapist Harry Levant told “60 Minutes” recently.

The Super Bowl is being hosted in America’s entertainment capital, but the NFL could never have imagined the additional attention being paid to pro football thanks to Taylor Swift. CBS News’ Jamie Yuccas takes a look at the “Taylor Effect” and the star’s cultural and economic impact on the big game. 

The other three members were Kate Cook, Healey’s chief of staff and a former top attorney in the Deval Patrick administration; Paige Scott Reed, Healey’s chief legal counsel; and Mary Strother, Northeastern University’s general counsel.

Northeastern University postdoctoral teaching associate Catherine Fairfield says she firmly views Taylor as “under the big umbrella of poetics,” meaning that she employs poetry techniques and aesthetics in her writing. 

“There is so much variation and fluctuation in news media these days,” said Meg Heckman, an associate professor of journalism at Northeastern University. “We have to teach our students how to navigate that and how to be flexible and versatile.”

On a rainy January day, Rep. Barbara Lee wandered the campus of Mills College pointing out sites from her momentous past. The leafy, seminary-like grounds in Oakland look different from when she attended. To her frustration, even the school’s name has been changed to Northeastern University Oakland.

Lori Lefkovitz, who directs the Jewish Studies program at Northeastern University, has taken cohorts of students to the Arava Institute for coursework multiple times. “What I love about it for our students is the hope that the Arava Institute represents,” she said.

40 years ago, Richard Daynard and his colleagues at the Public Health Advocacy Institute took on — and beat — Big Tobacco. 

The arid expanse of California’s San Joaquin Valley, a vital source of the nation’s food supply, was once home to Tulare Lake, which was a massive water body, spanning over 100 miles in length and 30 miles in width. Vivian Underhill, a former postdoctoral research fellow at Northeastern University, highlights the surprising return of the […]

Although farmers suffered from the lake’s return, there have been some benefits. A recent Northeastern University study found that native wetland birds started returning to the area.

“The European Union has often acted as a regulatory vanguard in the tech sector, setting stringent standards that have a global ripple effect,” says Beth Simone Noveck, a director at the Burnes Center for Social Change at Northeastern University. “Its proactive stance on issues like data privacy, competition, and digital taxation has compelled the U.S. […]