“I didn’t want to keep them in the freezer in my basement,” Dr. Litvaitis said of her flatworms, adding that blackouts are not uncommon in her New Hampshire neighborhood. She reached out to the Ocean Genome Legacy Center, a marine DNA genome bank near Boston that is part of Northeastern University, to see if it […]

Wendy Parmet, director of the Center for Health Policy and Law at Northeastern University School of Law, said she couldn’t rule out the possibility that the state would try to tie the recommendation to some sort of legal enforcement measure. But she too felt the impact would mostly be to further undermine confidence among parents. […]

The pandemic seems to have increased the appetite of employers to offer tuition-benefit programs, said Sean R. Gallagher, executive director of the Center for the Future of Higher Education and Talent Strategy at Northeastern University’s College of Professional Studies. “There’s been a renewed emphasis and, it appears, an increase in funding for worker upskilling,” Gallagher […]

“There’s still a question of whether people who don’t have existing relationships with health providers at pharmacy-based clinics or in community health centers, whether they will have enough information and enough access to actually test,” said Brook Baker, a professor at Northeastern University School of Law and a senior policy analyst at Health GAP, an […]

The case for placing guardrails around the right of doctors to speak publicly on scientific and medical matters is strong, said Claudia Haupt, professor of law at Northeastern University School of Law. “The First Amendment assumes an equality between speakers that really doesn’t reflect the reality that exists between doctors and patients concerning medical matters, […]

“Russian propaganda did not quite take off inside the United States in this instance…because of some of the work the Biden administration has been doing,” said Larissa Doroshenko, a researcher at Northeastern University.

“We absolutely see these racial stereotypes come to the surface and the coverage of it and seems to really reflect this very deep racism and xenophobia that, many of us have been arguing, has been underlying the response of Europe to refugees from other regions of the world,” said Serena Parekh, a professor of philosophy at […]