In an interview prior to jury selection, Northeastern University criminal law professor Daniel Medwed walked Boston.com through some methods of filtering out prospective jurors who show signs of possible bias. 

In spite of these politicized efforts, Idia Binitie Thurston, associate director of the Institute for Health Equity and Social Justice Research at Northeastern University, said institutions should not abandon their diversity goals.

But it will take “significant data analysis” to ascertain the role, if any, it played in making the rains more extreme, according to Auroop Ganguly, a civil and environmental engineering professor at Northeastern University in Boston. “Often major floods in a city relate to urban drainage and related infrastructures,” he said.

Includes Joseph Aoun, President, Northeastern University at No. 50.

“Identifying somebody’s base line risk of opioid use disorder is inherently going to be pretty difficult,” said Angela Kilby, an economist who studied algorithms like NarxCare when she was an assistant professor at Northeastern University. “It’s sort of like trying to find a needle in a haystack.” The rarity of the condition possibly lowers the […]

It’s important to put the numbers into perspective, so people understand that rampage attacks like Columbine are not common, according to James Alan Fоx, a criminologist at Northeastern University who has been researching gun violence for decades.

Article co-written by Tiffany Joseph, an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, and in the Interntional Affairs Program, at Northeastern University.

“Most of the news coverage about this time talked about it as catastrophic flooding,” Vivian Underhill, a former researcher fellow at Northeastern University, said in a statement to the school’s news division.

Op-ed by James Alan Fox, Lipman professor of Criminology, Law and Public Policy at Northeastern University and author of “Violence and Security on Campus: From Preschool through College.”

Reports that cloud seeding caused this week’s flooding were likely erroneous, but the reaction they inspired “represents a healthy kind of skepticism about what happens when we interfere with natural systems,” Laura Kuhl, a public-policy professor at Northeastern University who studies climate adaptation, told me. 

Ted Landsmark, director of the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University, joins Radio Boston to discuss the Parcel 12 project.

However, Costas Panagopoulos, a political science professor at Northeastern University, cautioned that polling estimates “can frequently appear to bounce around somewhat even if real change is elusive.”