Professor and Communication Expert Matthew Nisbet of Northeastern University stated that “Frames provide people a quick and easy way to process information …. This gives the sender and framer of the information enormous power to focus attention and influence how the receivers will interpret the message …. They help us organize complex topics and issues into coherent, […]

Last year, the Times reported data from Northeastern University and the Harvard Injury Control Research Center that showed about a fifth of all Americans bought firearms for the first time, with about 39 percent of all American households owning guns.

In November, the Boston Foundation held a virtual forum to analyze the Inaugural Boston Climate Progress Report conducted by Northeastern University researchers. 

“We’ve been looking at issues of PFAS contamination and the unevenness of testing for years, and still these [findings] were surprising in terms of how big the discrepancy was,” said Alissa Cordner, co-director of the PFAS Project Lab at Northeastern University and an author of the study.

“Moderation is a messy business where there’s a lot of gray and not a lot of black-and-white and edge cases,” said John Wihbey, associate professor of media innovation at Northeastern University. 

For the new study, Matthew Miller, MD, ScD, MPH, of Northeastern University and the Harvard Injury Control Research Center in Boston, and his colleagues examined how International Classification of Diseases (ICD) codes may misclassify the intent behind gunshot injuries.

Establishing liability for prior sales of gas ranges might be impossible, agreed Richard Daynard, a law professor at Northeastern University who has worked for decades to establish the tobacco industry’s liability for death and disease caused by its products. 

Sam Scarpino, director of AI and Life Sciences at Northeastern University, said the upcoming January may be worse, since flu cases are surging at higher rates this year, and COVID remains a problem.

The snake-inspired idea for a lunar robot, seen in this diagram, came from Northeastern University assistant professor Alireza Ramezani, who researches bio-inspired robot locomotion.

“This paper demonstrates the need for prioritizing tribal drinking water systems in future testing initiatives, as tribal systems are often undertested despite additional vulnerabilities for contamination,” said Phil Brown, co-author on the paper and a Northeastern University professor.

The program is a partnership between MaineHealth, the Roux Institute at Northeastern University and Northern Light Health. MaineHealth, headquartered in Portland, is Maine’s largest health care system and Maine’s largest private employer.

A 2015 research project by Northeastern University student Dixian Qui and civil engineering professor Peter Furth made the argument that the Bowker Overpass is unnecessary, even under traffic engineers’ traditional logic that prioritizes minimal amounts of delay for people in cars.