Massachusetts must still reckon with the structural demographic, educational and other factors that will affect labor supply in the long term,” Alan Clayton-Matthews, Professor Emeritus of Economics and Public Policy at Northeastern University, said along with the survey.

Jack McDevitt, a professor at Northeastern University’s School of Criminology and Criminal Justice who was part of a task force responsible for drafting better gun reform laws in Massachusetts a decade ago, said it also isn’t a decision that law enforcement or medical professionals want to make, based on his research of shaping stricter gun […]

Phil Brown, a professor of sociology and health sciences at Northeastern University who has written books on toxic waste activism, said women, and mothers in particular, have consistently organized locally after incidents like the Ohio train derailment. 

For Northeastern University political science professor Costas Panagopoulos, it would be “risky” for those hoping to replace Biden to attempt to do so during August’s Democratic National Convention because there would “not be ample time for the national electorate to coalesce around the alternative.”

“Biden is feeling increased pressure from his party to temper support for Israel,” Max Abrahms, a political science professor at Northeastern University, who specializes in international security, wrote on Thursday. 

Arshack asked Davis to review the autopsy, which he found troubling. Arshack also asked Aziza Ahmed, then a professor at Northeastern University School of Law, to focus specifically on the forensics of the lung float test.

“This war is bad for the Democratic party. It’s divisive,” said Max Abrahms, a political scientist at Northeastern University in Boston.

Laurel Leff is a Professor of Journalism at Northeastern University.

One way to do that is by setting a minimum GPA for introductory CS courses and only allowing students who meet it to continue on in the major—an approach that has obvious drawbacks in terms of equity, said Carla E. Brodley, dean of inclusive computing and the founding executive director of the Center for Inclusive […]

“There’s a real human right and some deep moral questions, I think, about this kind of thing,” said John Wihbey, an associate professor of media innovation and technology at Northeastern University who has studied misinformation. 

But gauging exactly when consumers pull back significantly on their spending is difficult given all the changes the economy has experienced because of the pandemic, said Robert Triest, chair of Northeastern University’s economics department and a former vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.

“The next generation is in trouble, unless they have wealthy parents who can help,” said economist Barry Bluestone, professor emeritus at Northeastern University.