The Northeastern study is part of a rising trend of scientists using online clues, or “breadcrumbs” – such as Google searches for chicken noddle soup delivery – to potentially predict spikes in covid cases.

According to doctors at Northeastern University, patients should wait “at least a few weeks” before getting the booster if they’ve recently been diagnosed with COVID.

 “While it sounds scary that there are over 57,000 presumptive contamination sites, this is almost certainly a large underestimation,” said Dr. Phil Brown, director of Northeastern University’s Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute and co-author on the paper.

Joanna Weiss is a POLITICO Magazine contributing editor and the editor of Experience magazine, published by Northeastern University.

“We have to design for the worst cases,” says Auroop Ganguly, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern University in Boston.

“For information, I encourage students to read Wall Street Journal, New York Times, [and] Financial Times. Start reading those media, 20-30 minutes a day. That will help people to have better financial knowledge,” said Dr. Paul Chiou, associate teaching professor of finance, Northeastern University in Boston, MA.

Fred Weichel, a South Boston man released from prison after 36 years for a murder associated with Whitey Bulger’s gang, is trying to do just that — and running into hurdles. GBH News legal analyst and Northeastern law professor Daniel Medwed joined GBH’s Morning Edition hosts Paris Alston and Jeremy Siegel to talk about Weichel’s case.

One finding that has emerged from the pandemic could have the greatest effect of all on online higher education: Nearly half of employers said their opinion of the quality of online credentials has improved, according to a survey by the Northeastern University Center for the Future of Higher Education and Talent Strategy.

Matt Cameron, a Boston-based immigration attorney who also teaches immigration policy at Northeastern University, told CNN that the decision to not include non-citizens who were not lawfully present could have dire consequences for some people.

In what they hail as a “new frontier in materials,” engineers at Northeastern University have developed a new type of ceramic that can be fashioned into thin and complex shapes, opening up expansive new applications in electronics. Described as thermoformable ceramics, the novel materials came about through a laboratory accident, but could serve as more […]

Raising wages for lower-income workers is a good strategy for both employers and the economy, said Northeastern University economist Alicia Sasser Modestino.

But, Rachel Rosenbloom, a Northeastern University professor of law, said DHS has since gone through the notice and comment process for DACA, undermining a judge’s initial ruling that it failed to follow the required procedure.