She passed away in August at the age of 79 after a nine-month battle with cancer. Before her diagnosis, she and her husband, Rick Burnes, a founder of Charles River Ventures, had started to think about launching a center dedicated to social justice at Northeastern University, where she had attended law school, served as a trustee, […]

Brennan Klein, a post-doctoral researcher at Northeastern University who has studied COVID and racial biases, said the researchers’ “careful statistical approach . . . offers [state policy leaders] a nice road map for how to direct vaccination efforts moving forward.”

Leo Beletsky, a Northeastern University professor of law and health sciences who leads the Health in Justice Action Lab, previously told VICE News “death by dealer” cases are more common when a Black or brown person sells drugs to a white person. 

As David DeSteno, professor of psychology at Northeastern University, notes, in his book How God Works: The Science Behind the Benefits of Religion, these types of synchronizing actions appear in many religions – from the chanting of Buddhists and Hindus to the kneeling of Christians and Muslims to the swaying of Jews during prayer. 

“Managers may not even know if an employee has finished their core work, but they are giving additional busywork to ensure that they don’t finish [for the day],” says Barbara Larson, an executive professor of management at D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University, Massachusetts. “It’s work that is literally just being given to ensure […]

A group of Northeastern University students is turning the park into a level one arboretum.

According to many bold headlines today, the pandemic’s disruption is here to stay. “COVID-19 isn’t going away. But now we know how to live with it” writes a team from Northeastern University. Even though we’ve been living this pandemic for two years, it still seems unfathomable that it’s become our new normal.