Evan Selinger is a professor of philosophy at the Rochester Institute of Technology, an affiliate scholar at Northeastern University’s Center for Law, Innovation, and Creativity, and a scholar in residence at the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project.

What a policy agreement says about data collection is another important factor to consider before hitting download, according to Engin Kirda, a professor at Northeastern University’s Khoury College of Computer Sciences. Going hand in hand with this is how the app makes money, Kirda said — particularly if it’s free to download.

Speaking to Voice of America Professor Jack McDevitt, an expert in criminology at Northeastern University, said: “We are seeing a return to much higher rates of gun violence than we have seen for a long time.

This precious mucus contains tiny extracellular vesicles—nano-sized lipid spheres—that may be critical to combating viruses like those that cause the common cold. In work recently published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Bleier, along with Mansoor Amiji, a chemist at Northeastern University, determined that during viral infection, cells in the nose release a […]

“The properties of the virus that the immune system sees, like the spike protein, are different in a way that causes antibodies from prior infections to not bind as efficiently,” said Sam Scarpino, the director of AI + Life Sciences at Northeastern University. “For individuals that have been previously infected … their antibodies will not […]

Aerosol or droplet? Lab-leak or natural spillover event? There have been several long-running and nasty scientific disputes during the pandemic. And yet we’ve made little progress in fixing the underlying issues that the participants are fighting about, said Samuel Scarpino, director of AI and life sciences at Northeastern University. (He spent much of the pandemic […]

Despite the rapid growth of cases there, China may not yet be fertile ground for variants that evade humans’ natural or vaccine-aided immunity, said Sam Scarpino, the director of Artificial Intelligence and Life Sciences at Northeastern University’s Institute for Experiential AI.

“We are seeing a return to much higher rates of gun violence than we have seen for a long time,” said Jack McDevitt, a professor at Northeastern University School of Criminology and Criminal Justice in Boston, Massachusetts, speaking with VOA. “We are starting to see more people use firearms to go after victims who they […]

But why didn’t anyone notice until after Santos was elected? Producer PJ Elliott spoke with Dan Kennedy, a journalism professor at Northeastern University and author of the blog Media Nation, to find out the answer.

Darin Detwiler, the director of the Master of Science in the Regulatory Affairs of Food and Food Industries program at Northeastern University, said how PickleMeEverything could face serious legal repercussions.

“That data point alone tells us that there’s rising worker activism, there’s rising worker organizing, and there has been rising worker success,” 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.

“On one level, it’s a deeply formalist book, showing how anti-narrative comics can be, with this avant-garde experimental language that Art is exploring,” said Hillary Chute, a professor of English, art and design at Northeastern University who edited “Maus Now” and has studied Spiegelman’s work for years. “It’s also incredibly personal.”