Northeastern University criminal law professor Daniel S. Medwed tells A&E True Crime that the verdict was flawed, but not for First Amendment reasons.

Similarly, a presidential order for states to require vaccinations on their own would likely have been found unconstitutional, said Wendy E. Parmet, director of the Center for Health Policy and Law and Northeastern University.

“For the most part, it’s not a shortage of workers that’s the problem, per se. It’s a sign that employers just need to offer better packages of wages and working conditions to attract workers,” Northeastern University economics professor Robert Triest said in the study.

Many researchers estimate travel with “gravity models,” which assume that movement between cities is proportional to their population sizes. But these models do not account for travel patterns within cities—information that is particularly critical in tackling disease transmission. Northeastern University epidemiologist Sam Scarpino, who was not involved in the study, says models based on this […]

Inside Northeastern University’s Life Sciences Testing Center in Burlington, a delivery cart with hundreds of COVID-19 tests from the Boston campus arrives every few hours. Jared Auclair, the Director of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, at Northeastern University said, “Since school started, we’ve been averaging about 5,500 tests per day.”

The accelerator, which started operations Monday, is a collaboration between the Roux Institute at Northeastern University, a Portland-based graduate school and research center, and Techstars, a Colorado-based startup accelerator with more than 24 locations. The Portland accelerator is the second in New England after Boston.

Not only do researchers often depict the brain and its functions much as mapmakers might draw nations on continents, but they do so “the way old-fashioned mapmakers” did, according to Lisa Feldman Barrett, a psychologist at Northeastern University. “They parse the brain in terms of what they’re interested in psychologically or mentally or behaviorally,” and then […]

Lance Williams, a professor at Northeastern University, said it “kind of puts conflict on steroids.” “Social media exacerbates the problem, because what it does is expands the platform for interpersonal beef,” said Williams, who was one of the authors of “The Fracturing of Gangs and Violence in Chicago,” a report from the Great Cities Institute.