“I really do worry this will lead to a second wave of women leaving the labor force,” said economist Alicia Sasser Modestino, an associate professor at Northeastern University. “For the economy, overall, is this a big deal? Probably not. But is this a big deal for women? Yes it is. We risk more women being […]

Professor Tommaso Melodia, founding director of Northeastern’s Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things, poses for a portrait at the “Colosseum” facility in Burlington, MA, in July 2021.

Margo Lindauer, who directs the Domestic Violence Institute at Northeastern University, said she’s struck by the inconsistency. “Why are they sharing some and not others?” she asked. “And if it’s in the interest of victim safety, which I imagine they would say, how can they share  that while not disclosing the identity of the victim? […]

The soldier, Pvt. Felix Hall, was last seen alive in an all-white neighborhood in February 1941, according to Northeastern University’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project. A month after his disappearance, he was declared a deserter.

Wendy Parmet, a professor of health policy law at Northeastern University, told Forbes the law around vaccine mandates for Congress is “different” than for other employers, but that the legal case for vaccine mandates in general is “pretty strong” if some exemptions are provided.

When he went missing, Hall was declared a deserter. But his body was discovered on March 28, 1941, in a wooded area by a platoon performing training drills, according to Northeastern University’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project.

“The overall consensus is that in most situations, mandates are legally permissible,” said Wendy Parmet, a law professor and the director of Northeastern University’s Center for Health Policy and Law.