In the Press Archive

‘Acceleration’ in gun purchases over the last year, study finds

The research on firearm purchases in the US, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine and carried out by Professor Matt Miller at Northeastern University, showed that 5m adults have become first-time gun owners during the pandemic, compared to 2.4m in 2019 and 2.9 per cent of all Americans who had not previously owned a gun, purchased one […]

IEEE Spectrum

Test of Planet-Cooling Scheme Could Start in 2022

Establishing a governing body isn’t a guarantee that the interests of wealthy, powerful nations won’t overtake those of poorer, more vulnerable countries, says Jennie C. Stephens, director of Northeastern University’s School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, in Boston.

Slate

Spectacular Vernacular

They also interview Rupal Patel, professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders and Computer Science at Northeastern University and the founder of VocaliD.

Moms have made it work during the pandemic — but at what cost?

According to economist Alicia Sasser Modestino of Northeastern University, that exodus had a lot to do with the return to school and the demands that remote learning placed on parents. When the PBS NewsHour talked to Modestino this summer for our documentary “Raising the Future: The Child Care Crisis,” she had predicted as the year […]

Gun purchases accelerated in the US from 2020 to 2021, study reveals

The survey, conducted by Professor Matt Miller at Northeastern University and published today in the Annals of Internal Medicine, shows that between January 2019 and April this year, around 7.5m people, or 2.9% of all US adults who had not previously owned guns, purchased them.

As coronavirus swirls and the holidays near, COVID-19 tests are in high demand

Since the Omicron variant was first identified at the end of November, case numbers have surged in Massachusetts, said Jared Auclair, associate dean of professional programs and graduate affairs at Northeastern University’s College of Science. In the past week, the variant has caused about half of the positive cases a testing lab has confirmed on […]

Survey finds low use of facial recognition tech

For Northeastern University professor Woodrow Hartzog, whose research focuses on privacy and artificial intelligence, the rate at which facial recognition technology has been adopted in Massachusetts so far is itself a reason to enact strict regulations.

Twelve percent of Massachusetts school water fixtures exceed lead thresholds: study

Researchers from Northeastern University observed that these fixtures — such as water fountains and faucets — contained lead levels that exceed 15 parts per billion (ppb), the point at which Massachusetts mandates that water should not flow from the systems. The problematic findings were not evenly distributed, with 90 percent of the failures occurring at just […]

Health Magazine

Coca-Cola Recalled Some Minute Maid Juices After Potential Metal Contamination—Here Are the Affected Products

Darin Detwiler, associate professor of food safety at Northeastern University, tells Health that there are “a lot” of recalls around metal shavings, metal objects, glass, plastic, and rubber pieces ending up in food. “It can happen when machines are involved,” he says. Some companies will scan their products to see if there is any debris in their […]

How We Can Get Better Recommendations Without Giving Up Our Privacy

Yanzhi Wang CEO of CoCoPIE, a software solution enabling real-time AI for off-the-shelf mobile devices; Assistant Professor at Northeastern University.

U.S. News & World Report

Many Seniors on Medicare Falling Into Medical Debt

“People sort of imagine the Medicare population is well taken care of in this regard, in terms of being able to access care,” said lead researcher Jeanne Madden, an associate professor of pharmacy and health systems science at Northeastern University in Boston. “But it’s not universally accessible. It’s not equitable.”

Large parts of rural America are becoming drugstore deserts. These small towns found an escape.

“The big-box stores came into smaller and smaller communities, and they, in essence, outcompeted all the other pharmacies in the area,” said David Zgarrick, a pharmacy professor at Northeastern University in Boston. “Now they’re completely gone and with them the pharmacy services and everything else they provided. They left a vacuum in a lot of […]

Researchers decode the chemistry behind a deadly genetic disorder

How this entrepreneur built an e-commerce network for Latin America

This ‘super flu’ could cause widespread serious illness, experts say

Did Nick Reiner’s drug use mask longstanding mental health problems?