“The growth has been slow and steady,” said Sean Gallagher, executive director of Northeastern University’s Center for the Future of Higher Education and Talent Strategy. “The pandemic and the shift to online work and learning just took this trend that was already in place and accelerated it.”

On May 13, Ulukaya stood in front of a crowd of new graduates of Northeastern University at Fenway Park in Boston, and exhorted them to make a difference in the world as he has. Looking at their 20-year-old faces, he said, he saw himself at 20: “I can tell all of you have the same fire in you.”

“We’ve talked for decades about price increases and limited supply, and Greater Boston always faces that. Now… I would characterize it as on steroids,” said Alicia Sasser Modestino, an associate professor and research director of the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University. “I think it’s unprecedented. I don’t think I’ve seen […]

“They are saddened by the idea that this product that they believe in very strongly and think would benefit a lot of babies would be less accessible if allocated on the basis of company profit rather than patient need,” says Kara Swanson, a law professor at Northeastern University and the author of “Banking on the Body.” “In […]

In the years before the high court decided Roe, medical exceptions were common in states that prohibited abortion. Wendy Parmet, a professor of law and public policy at Northeastern University in Boston, said “chaos doesn’t even begin to describe the situation” of how exceptions were granted.

Mai’a Cross, politics professor at Northeastern University, Boston “Putin will certainly use this to bolster propaganda domestically and to claim that NATO really is a threat to Russian security in light of its ongoing expansion. “There is the possibility that the Russian military will retaliate by using increasingly brutal tactics in Ukraine in order to […]