Boston University, Northeastern, and Suffolk University have dropped mask requirements for most areas of their campuses, in the latest sign of the city gingerly returning to something akin to pre-pandemic life with the Omicron-fueled surge of COVID-19 that ravaged hospitals earlier this winter continuing to taper off.

They’re now scholarship students at Northeastern University, finishing degrees in business and finance, and worrying about the families and friends they left behind. And about the victims of this year’s catastrophe, too.

“It’s called collective sensemaking,” says Claudia Flores-Saviaga, who studies disinformation, crowdsourcing, and social computing at Northeastern University. “That is something very normal during crisis events like wars or natural disasters.” 

“There are not yet good systems for providing vaccines in humanitarian and conflict situations,” said Brook Baker, a Northeastern University law professor. “The influx of large populations living in crowded conditions will result in increased transmission but little protection.”

Courts have held that limited restrictions on the time, place, and manner of protests can be constitutional under certain circumstances, legal experts said. Restrictions on protests can be upheld in court so long as they are “ ‘content-neutral,’ e.g., not designed to suppress a particular viewpoint,” said Daniel Medwed, a professor of law at Northeastern […]

 Lisa Feldman Barrett is a professor of psychology at Northeastern University, Boston, and the author of Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain.

Diana Zlotnikova, a senior at Northeastern University, organized a peace march in Boston that began in the Boston Public Garden. It was initially supposed to include only local college students. But as the conflict in Ukraine continued to rage, the number of people who expressed interest grew exponentially, she said. Sunday’s attendance was believed to […]