David Lazer (@davidlazer) is University Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Computer Sciences at Northeastern University and co-director of the COVID States Project.

Healey, who was co-captain of her Harvard College basketball team and went on to play professionally in Austria, also announced plans for a conference in late August and early September on addressing hate and bias in school sports, to be followed by a series of regional trainings this fall by Northeastern University’s Center for the […]

Daniel Medwed, GBH News legal analyst and Northeastern University law professor, joined GBH’s Morning Edition hosts Paris Alston and Jeremy Siegel to talk about legal ethics and the investigation. 

Serena Parekh Serena Parekh is a professor of philosophy at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, and author of No Refuge: Ethics and the Global Refugee Crisis.

Leo Beletsky, a Northeastern University professor of law and health sciences who leads the Health in Justice Lab, said Allen’s sentence is the most extreme he’s heard of in the five years he’s been following these prosecutions.  

Northeastern University’s Institute of Experiential AI will launch its research center this Wednesday with a full-day event on campus. The launch will include a session led by Lila Snyder, CEO of BOSE, and Don Peppers, founding partner of Peppers & Rogers Group, and panels on topics like executive leadership in AI and AI ethics. A career fair […]

Drawing on research by T Alexander Aleinikoff, philosopher Serena Parekh of Northeastern University explains that refugee flows were primarily east to west (rather than south to north) in the first half of the 20th century. 

Lisa Feldman Barrett, neuroscientist, psychologist; University Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Northeastern University; she holds appointments at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, where she is Chief Science Officer for the Center for Law, Brain & Behavior; author of Seven and Half Lessons About the Brain and How Emotions are Made.

“People in the U.S. have no greater right to health than people elsewhere in the world,” says Brook K. Baker, a Northeastern University Law School professor who specializes in access to medicines. “We’re all human. Health is a positive good for everyone. Yet we’re living under a monopoly-based system where giant pharmaceutical corporations make billions […]

But Pfizer’s decision has dismayed public-health advocates. DNDi’s inability to obtain medicine for clinical trials compounds ongoing inequities in access to vaccines and treatments, including Paxlovid, in low- and middle-income countries, says Brook Baker, a law professor at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, who specializes in global access to medicines and vaccines. “This is a […]

Harvard scholar Oleh Kotsyuba and Northeastern University professors Mai’a Cross and Pablo Calderon explained Wednesday how Zelenskyy can call Russian President Vladimir Putin’s bluff by joining the E.U. on NBC10 Boston’s weekly series, “Russia-Ukraine Q&A.”

Christo Wilson, an associate professor of computer science at Northeastern University, was hired by pymetrics to audit the platform for bias in 2020. Wilson and his team spent three months in 2020 analyzing the machine-learning input datasets, verifying that decisions passed the four-fifths rule (a rule of thumb established by the EEOC for organizations to evaluate […]