“The messaging around ‘it’s over, we’ve won’ is setting us up for a huge betrayal of trust if there is another variant that shows up,” says Sam Scarpino, a professor of health sciences and computer science at Northeastern University.

Ricardo Baeza-Yates, director of research at the Experiential AI Institute at Northeastern University (www.baeza.cl/spanish.html), also reviewed the image for Reuters and highlighted a few other problems with it, such as backgrounds with different contrast, variable resolution, missing eyes, and shadows that are not consistent.

So far this year, the country has recorded 22 mass killings — all involving guns — that collectively have resulted in at least 115 deaths, according to a database maintained by the Associated Press, USA Today and Northeastern University.

But for those couples who still wish to give a personally branded bottle opener that says, for example, “Love is brewing,” because you both really like beer, all might not be lost. Mary Steffel, an associate professor of marketing at Northeastern University, told me over email that her research shows that sharing something personal with […]

By Dr. Curtis Odom, Managing Partner at Prescient Strategists and an Associate Professor of Management at Northeastern University.

James Alan Fox, a professor of Criminology, Law, and Public Policy at Northeastern University who has studied mass killings for 40 years, says 2023 has been the worst year in terms of mass killings “since at least 2006 and probably ever.”

Swift probably receives between 100% and 110% of ticketing revenues. As David Herlihy, a Northeastern University Teaching Professor and Music Industry Program Coordinator, told me, “Her promoter should be happy to pay her more because he does not have to assume any risk that her concerts will not sell out.”

But “we don’t really have a baseline” to return to for SARS-CoV-2, says Sam Scarpino, an infectious-disease modeler at Northeastern University. This has left officials floundering for an end-of-pandemic threshold to meet.