Research suggests such efforts are more than feel-good fests. When disaster strikes, social capital makes a big difference in survival and recovery rates, argues Daniel Aldrich, director of the resilience-studies programme at Northeastern University. 

Dr. Samuel Scarpino, Pathogen Surveillance at Rockefeller Foundation Managing Director, affiliate professor at Northeastern University told Alix Steel and Guy Johnson on “Bloomberg Markets: Americas” that while early data is encouraging, people still need to be cautious with the omicron variant.

“Baby boomers and prior generations typically spent much of their careers in one organisation,” explains Jamie Ladge, associate professor of management and organisational development at Northeastern University in Boston. “More current generations have evolved from this thinking.” 

The 13-week program, at Northeastern University’s Roux Institute on Portland’s East End, is set to wrap up this Thursday with a Demo Day event at the Ocean Gateway, which will also be live-streamed. The program is led by Managing Director Lars Perkins, a former software entrepreneur, angel investor and consultant for startups in California.

Mandates requiring full vaccination for health-care workers (in facilities receiving government funding through Medicare or Medicaid) and vaccination or testing for federal contractors are also stalled. Many appeals courts are reading federal authority “exceptionally narrowly, in ways that are surprising to those of us who have been in this field for some time,” says Wendy […]

“There’s lots of logistics and training and community health literacy that has to happen in order for this to work well,” said Brook Baker, professor at Northeastern University School of Law who works with the Access to Covid-19 Tools Accelerator, a World Health Organization-backed effort meant to ease access to Covid-19 vaccines, treatments and diagnostics.

“Justice Roberts’ references to China and North Korea were based on conservative talking points, I’m afraid,” said Martha Davis, a Northeastern University School of Law professor who, along with other scholars, filed a brief in the case opposing the Mississippi law. “Our current abortion law actually puts us in the company of the U.K., Canada […]

Parole boards, however, regard assertions of innocence with skepticism. “There is a very strong presumption that claiming innocence is a sign of denial,” said Daniel S. Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University who wrote a 2008 study titled “The Innocent Prisoner’s Dilemma.”