A 2016 study from Harvard and Northeastern University found that half of all guns in America were owned by just 3 per cent of the population. In the survey 76 per cent of respondents cited protection as their primary reason for owning a gun, up from 46 per cent in 1994. Clearly paranoia about something is […]

“The courts have generally found that the states have regulatory authority over the practice of medicine,” said Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern University’s Center for Health Policy and Law. A state saying,”’You can only prescribe it from an in-person visit in the first six weeks of pregnancy,’ becomes a very different case than just saying, […]

“The question that we wanted to get the answer to was how does a woman’s suicide risk change when someone that she’s living with in a gun-free home becomes a new hand gun owner?” said Dr. Matthew Miller, the lead author of the study and a professor at Northeastern University.

Northeastern University law professor and GBH legal analyst Daniel Medwed joined GBH’s Morning Edition to take a closer look at the history of Roe v. Wade and abortion law.

“The scenario where you have a manufacturing problem that occurred at an Abbott facility in Michigan, those kinds of things happen all the time,” Nada Sanders, a professor of supply chain management at Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business, told ABC News. “Ultimately, we have very, very weak supply chains.”

More people will “undoubtedly” have experiences like Scarlett’s, said Woodrow Hartzog, a professor of law and computer science at Northeastern University. “And we know from experience that the people who will suffer first and suffer the hardest are women and people of color and other marginalized communities for whom facial-recognition technology serves as a tool […]

This debate played out three years ago before a state commission tasked with reviewing Section 35. The panel released a set of recommendations, which included taking forced treatment out of carceral settings and providing data on its effectiveness. Commission member and Northeastern University professor Leo Beletsky said those recommendations went nowhere.

Brintlinger, as well as George Shaler of the Maine Statistical Analysis Center and Jack McDevitt, the Director of the Institute on Race and Justice at Northeastern University and a leading national expert on hate crimes, worked on the study. More than that 65 law enforcement agencies, all eight district attorney’s offices and the attorney general’s […]

“We are now at a critical juncture in which Ukrainians will have to decide whether to take Crimea back on the battlefield or be content with the victory against Russia they currently have,” said Mai’a Cross, politics professor at Northeastern University, Boston.

But not so fast — make sure you check the expiration date on that kit before you use it, says Jared Auclair, director of the Biopharmaceutical Analysis Training Lab at Northeastern University, who joined GBH Morning Edition host Paris Alston to answer questions about COVID tests. 

Body armor hasn’t been worn in the majority of mass shootings, said James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University who has been tracking mass killings back to 2006 along with the Associated Press and USA Today.

“The courts, even the Supreme Court, now have the potential to make moves that are not knowable,” says Northeastern University professor John Wihbey, who specializes in social media platform ethics. “The courts have become a block box.”