The lead author, Dr. Matthew Miller, a professor of epidemiology at Northeastern University, compared it to analyzing second-hand risks associated with smoking. “The question we tried to address is what happens to a woman’s suicide risk when someone she lives with her brings a handgun into their gun-free home for the first time,” he said in a […]

If the agitators and influencers find themselves leaving Twitter en masse, the dissemination of information may be slowed, but it’s not doomed, said Meredith D. Clark, an associate professor at the school of journalism and department of communication studies at Northeastern University.

Harvard scholar Oleh Kotsyuba and Northeastern University professors Mai’a Cross and Pablo Calderon weighed in on whether Massachusetts should create this type of commission and how real the nuclear threat really is to the Bay State during NBC10 Boston’s weekly series, “Russia-Ukraine Q&A.”

The report, produced by researchers affiliated with the University of Washington, UC Davis, UC Irvine, and Northeastern University, said the ways Amazon does this is inconsistent with its privacy policies.

Carla Brodley is a professor of computer science. She’s also the executive director of the Center for Inclusive Computing at Northeastern University.

“The question we tried to address is what happens to a woman’s suicide risk when someone she lives with brings a handgun into their gun-free home for the first time. The answer: her chances of dying by suicide increases by more than 40%,” Dr. Matthew Miller, a professor of epidemiology at Northeastern University and the […]

Dr. Matthew Miller, the lead author on the study and a professor at Northeastern University in Boston, said it is the lethality of guns that accounts for the significant difference. Other studies have shown, he said, that women in gun-free households do not enjoy any better mental health conditions or think about suicide any less […]

Lisa Feldman Barrett is a professor of psychology at Northeastern University. She is the author of several books, including How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain. Follow her on Twitter @LFeldmanBarrett.

Caution is needed in analyzing the numbers, which have been cyclical over the decades, and in analyzing how the police and politicians respond, said James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University.

Academics at the University of Washington, University of California-Davis, University of California-Irvine, and Northeastern University claim “Amazon processes voice data to infer user interests and uses it to serve targeted ads on-platform (Echo devices) as well as off-platform (web).”