“There’s a sense of resignation in the defense bar that prosecutors are often above the law and they won’t be held accountable,” said law professor Daniel S. Medwed of Northeastern University, who filed the drug lab complaint. “It’s not just Massachusetts. It’s really every state.”

The 2016 DEA news release went viral, on Facebook specifically, among law enforcement, coinciding with the increased presence of fentanyl in the street drug supply, said Leo Beletsky, professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University and a co-author with Marino of the 2020 study on the spread of fentanyl misinformation.

Even when vaccines came around, these differences continued, Mauricio Santillana, an epidemiology expert at Northeastern University and a co-author of the study, told me.

“The classic book explaining what unions do is, perhaps unsurprisingly, What Do Unions Do?,” says Seth Harris, a professor at Northeastern University who was also a top labor advisor to President Joe Biden and an acting labor secretary under President Barack Obama.

“In most seasons, it is rare to experience shortages of these medications, especially as widespread as this,” said Brandon Dionne, an associate clinical professor at Northeastern University School of Pharmacy in Boston, Massachusetts.

Peter Furth, a professor at Northeastern University, has been studying the traffic issues and says he met with officials at the Massachusetts Department of Transportation Tuesday in an effort to find a solution.

“It’s a bit [like] musical chairs right now,” says Alicia Modestino, an associate professor and labor economist at Northeastern University. “We’re seeing a lot of people shift jobs, move up in the labor market. That’s great.”

At the college level, Dr. Carla Brodley, Northeastern University’s Dean Inclusive Computing, and Maria Klawe, the President of Harvey Mudd College, are making it a priority to attract female students to the industry. 

Swift should earn around 48 times more than Ticketmaster from her ‘Eras’ tour. Her proceeds from the concert could be around $620 million based on assumptions from David Herlihy, a Northeastern University Teaching Professor and Music Industry Program Coordinator.

Piotr Sapiezynski, an associate research scientist at Northeastern University presented a study at the FTC’s PrivacyCon in November finding that one particular data broker was more likely to have inaccurate information about people of color, and people with lower incomes — a discrepancy that could result in people being denied services like housing or loans, or […]

“Transportation is one of those issues — we don’t talk about how integrated it is into everyone’s lives,” said Alicia Modestino, research director of the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University. 

“It’s more difficult to make blanket statements now than it was even a year ago,” says Barbara Larson, a professor of management at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University.