But Pfizer’s decision has dismayed public-health advocates. DNDi’s inability to obtain medicine for clinical trials compounds ongoing inequities in access to vaccines and treatments, including Paxlovid, in low- and middle-income countries, says Brook Baker, a law professor at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, who specializes in global access to medicines and vaccines. “This is a […]

Harvard scholar Oleh Kotsyuba and Northeastern University professors Mai’a Cross and Pablo Calderon explained Wednesday how Zelenskyy can call Russian President Vladimir Putin’s bluff by joining the E.U. on NBC10 Boston’s weekly series, “Russia-Ukraine Q&A.”

Christo Wilson, an associate professor of computer science at Northeastern University, was hired by pymetrics to audit the platform for bias in 2020. Wilson and his team spent three months in 2020 analyzing the machine-learning input datasets, verifying that decisions passed the four-fifths rule (a rule of thumb established by the EEOC for organizations to evaluate […]

Local experts explain peace talks, including Ukraine’s offer of neutrality, the possibility of a split Ukraine and the country’s admittance to the EU on NBC10 Boston’s weekly series, “Russia-Ukraine War Q&A.”

Mills was participating in “A Conversation about the Maine Economy,” part of the Roux Institute at Northeastern University’s Signature Speaker Series. In an auditorium at the institute’s campus at 100 Fore Street, she answered questions from Mary Ludden, senior vice provost and senior vice chancellor at Northeastern University. About 100 people attended.

Responding to emotional cues is common in the animal kingdom, too. “There are multiple studies of non-human animals showing that they respond to environmental cues we are not perceiving (at least not consciously), for example by increasing their levels of stress hormones before storms, or reacting to earthquakes or tidal waves,” Brian Hellmuth, professor of environmental […]

Serena Parekh, a professor at Northeastern University in Boston, said the way Western nations have offered to help Ukrainians is exactly how refugees should be treated. But she also said it’s difficult to overlook the discrepancies compared to how other people are treated, especially in countries that have used aggressive “pushback” policies to stop certain […]

Cooking hot dogs on the boardwalk may not do much for an academic resume, but it does build lifelong skills like self-discipline and time management. Moreover, according to a Northeastern University study, low-income high-schoolers who work are more likely to graduate.