“Because the FDA puts that information on its website, it will actually crowd out the misinformation from the top 10 or 20 Google results,” said David Lazer, a political and computer scientist at Northeastern University.

“When donors give, and then benefit from their donations, arguably they are not promoting the public good, but rather their own good,” says Patricia Illingworth, a philosophy professor at Northeastern University and author of Giving Now, a book about the ethics of philanthropy.

Mehrdad Sasani, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern University in Boston, said that from what he observed, the most likely cause of newer buildings falling was bad construction and poor enforcement of codes and standards.

The Civil Rights & Restorative Justice Project, based at Northeastern University School of Law has recorded more than 150 incidents of police violence against Black citizens in Alabama in the years 1930-1970. 

“For a lot of our clients, the work we do as lawyers is life or death,” says Hemanth C. Gundavaram, associate dean for experiential education at Northeastern University School of Law in Massachusetts and a volunteer for the development of NextGen content.

“In environmental risk assessment, we have to make a lot of decisions that we don’t want to have to make,” says Kim Garrett, an environmental toxicologist at Northeastern University.

On college campuses, gun violence and mass shootings are even more rare, according to researcher James Alan Fox at Northeastern University.