Written by Matthew Miller, Professor of Health Sciences and Epidemiology at Northeastern University, and Deborah Azrael, Director of Research, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

GBH News legal analyst and Northeastern University Law Professor Daniel Medwed joined Morning Edition hosts Paris Alston and Jeremy Siegel to talk about how the Supreme Judicial Court ruled in that case, along with a few other summer rulings. 

Commenting generally, and not on the specific thylacine case, Ronald Sandler, a professor of philosophy and director of the Ethics Institute at Northeastern University who focuses on environmental ethics, says he’s not against de-extinction, but emphasizes the importance of considering the most effective ways of tackling conservation challenges.

Fulcrum has agreed to sponsor her through a BSc in digital technology solutions, backed by Northeastern University, London, which was launched as the New College of the Humanities in 2011.

“The brain’s most important job is regulating the systems in your body, and part of that is modeling the state of the body based on sense data, which is what interoception is,” says Lisa Feldman Barrett, university distinguished professor of psychology and director of the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory at Northeastern University.

Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev won an appeal of his death sentence on grounds that a federal judge didn’t do enough to ensure an unbiased jury, despite an extensive selection process, said Northeastern University criminal law professor Daniel S. Medwed.

 In 2021, the nonprofit UnitedOnGuns, an initiative of the Northeastern University School of Law, released a mass shooting protocol and playbook for municipal officials.

“So many states in the abortion arena have been playing with misinformation like this, relying on the antiabortion movement instead of medical professionals and what the science shows,” said Wendy E. Parmet, co-director of Northeastern University’s Center for Health Policy & Law. “Some states have required physicians say it causes breast cancer — which is […]

“We’re not creating a solid barrier, but we’re using a network of these little units around the shoreline to achieve wave energy dissipation,” said Julia Hopkins, assistant professor in civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern University.

Health departments typically wait to investigate foodborne illness until they have received reports of multiple people in the same area with a confirmed illness caused by the same pathogen, said Darin Detwiler, a professor of food policy at Northeastern University.

The initiative – beginning this autumn at Northeastern University after a pilot version in the summer – includes greater exposure to fields and subfields outside the student’s thesis topic, and specific instruction in managing co-workers, picking research topics, and running a laboratory.

Increasingly, Russia is working to spread such messages in Africa and other parts of the global South, where tech companies’ content moderation enforcement tends to be lax, said Larissa Doroshenko, a postdoctoral scholar at Northeastern University who researches disinformation.