In the early days of the pandemic “you could have been strongly pro-mask and only worry about having lost the Trump votes,” Dr. Nick Beauchamp, assistant professor of political science at Northeastern University, told Fortune.

Northeastern University says it is on track to reduce emissions by 80% of 2005 levels by 2050.

“We’re currently in a crisis period, where we lack the ethical capacity to solve this problem,” said John Basl, a Northeastern University philosopher who specializes in emerging technologies.

Dan Kennedy, a media analyst and Northeastern University journalism professor, first reported that the Globe was accepting Philip Morris advertising, but there was no explanation from the Globe for that decision in his story.  

The Burnes Center for Social Change, which Northeastern announced Thursday, is named after Nonnie Burnes, a Massachusetts Superior Court judge who died of cancer last August. The school said the idea from the center came from discussions Burnes had with Northeastern President Joseph A. Aoun about how best to effect change.

Northeastern University economics professor John Kwoka has shown empirically through retrospective studies that mergers typically lead to increases in price, meaning that the conservative belief that mergers always enhance consumer welfare doesn’t even hold up on its own terms. But in addition, the consumer welfare standard ignores how consumers can also be producers, workers, entrepreneurs, and small-business […]

Harvard scholar Oleh Kotsyuba and Northeastern University professors Mai’a Cross and Pablo Calderon explained the implications Finland and Sweden joining NATO during an episode of NBC10 Boston’s weekly series, “Russia-Ukraine Q&A.”

Brennan Klein, a post-doctoral researcher at Northeastern University who has studied COVID and racial biases, said the researchers’ “careful statistical approach . . . offers [state policy leaders] a nice road map for how to direct vaccination efforts moving forward.”

On this week’s WhoWhatWhy podcast we talk with Northeastern University professor of law and computer science Woodrow Hartzog, whose latest work is Breached! Why Data Security Law Fails and How to Improve It.

Bert Spector Associate Professor of International Business and Strategy at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University

In partnership with the Governance Lab at Northeastern University, we solicited input from a wide range of experts about how to improve Congress’s evidence-gathering ability. And the format we used for these two sessions stood out as one model for how to do it.

She passed away in August at the age of 79 after a nine-month battle with cancer. Before her diagnosis, she and her husband, Rick Burnes, a founder of Charles River Ventures, had started to think about launching a center dedicated to social justice at Northeastern University, where she had attended law school, served as a trustee, […]