“The current fentanyl situation is really a product of misguided drug policy and its enforcement,” says Leo Beletsky, a professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University in Boston.

Guest Meredith D Clark, Associate professor, Northeastern University.

A massive survey conducted by researchers from Harvard, Rutgers, Northwestern and Northeastern universities found there was a midsummer 3.2-percentage-point spike among Democratic women who said they were “very likely” to vote in November.

Auroop Ganguly, director of the Sustainability and Data Sciences Laboratory at Northeastern University, previously told Newsweek, “On the hydrometeorological hazards side, heat waves are getting—and are further projected to get—even hotter, cold snaps persisting even if growing less frequent, heavy precipitation getting heavier, and so on.

Ensuring a male sexual partner uses a condom can require negotiation or persuasion skills that can be difficult to navigate, said Jennifer Evans, an assistant teaching professor and health education specialist at Northeastern University.

While the voluntary guidelines are a welcome step, their impact depends largely on how state and federal agencies and other authorities respond to them, says Leo Beletsky, professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University and director of the Health in Justice Action Lab there.

For now, Twitter’s check marks help users tell the difference between bogus accounts and ones operated by real individuals, according to David Lazer, professor of political science and computer and information sciences at Northeastern University. 

“It is a call to action,” said report author Joan Fitzgerald, a professor of public policy and urban affairs at Northeastern University. “But this city government can’t do this alone. … Everyone has to be moving in lockstep to realize these goals.”

he study, led by a team of researchers at City University of New York, Northeastern University and Cambridge University, was a 40-year systemic review of the effects of closed-circuit television networks on crime trends in countries like Britain and South Korea. Overall, crime decreased 13 percent in areas with CCTV.

If the purpose of sending psilocybin client data to DORA is to identify adverse events, the system would be redundant. Overall, “the risks outweigh the potential remote benefits,” said Leo Beletsky, professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University.

From 2020 to 2021, however, those costs rose 14 percent, and are up 11 percent so far in 2022, said Ali Touran, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern University.

Daniel Medwed, GBH’s legal analyst and Northeastern University law professor, joined Morning Edition hosts Paris Alston and Jeremy Siegel to talk about the case, Barron v. Kolenda.