Matthew Miller, professor of health sciences at Northeastern University and lead author of the 2021 study documenting more diverse gun owners, notes that a firearm in the house increases each inhabitant’s risk of injury or self-harm. Millions of new gun owners expose millions of adults and children to that danger. 

Stephen Chan is chief of staff at Northeastern University. 

Without a radical change in the Russian government, Putin will never appear before the court, says a Northeastern University report.

Mai’a Cross, an Edward W. Brooke Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at Boston’s Northeastern University, has written extensively about diplomacy surrounding the ISS and other space programs. She finds Rogozin’s warnings laughable and in an interview with News@Northeastern said, “This boils down to a ridiculous scenario.” Without all sides continuing to cooperate, she noted, the ISS […]

“Before ‘Pokémon Go,’ if you asked me what an [augmented reality game] was, it would take me 10 minutes to explain it to you,” says Celia Pearce, a game designer and professor of games at Northeastern University. “So now when someone asks me what a LARP is, I’m going to say, ‘Like Galactic Starcruiser.’ Everyone […]

“Anything is on the table at this point, but if strategically his goal is to have another puppet regime like in Belarus, even if he can put one in place in Ukraine, there will be uprisings,” says Mai’a Cross, a professor of political science and international affairs at Northeastern University. “I don’t think he walks […]

“Buildings are an enormous investment of energy, material, human capital, and money,” says David Fannon, a professor of architecture at Northeastern University and coauthor of The Architecture of Persistence: Designing for Future Use. “We pour all these resources into making them. It seems like it would be good if those things served their purpose for as […]

On Wednesday, the state Supreme Judicial Court will hear a case focused on physician-assisted death. First, we talk with the plaintiff, Dr. Roger Kligler. He’s a retired physician who has been living with cancer for 20 years and has been spending his retirement advocating for patient rights to access medical aid in dying. Then, we […]

But Teladoc’s new partnership with Amazon — allowing millions of consumers to dial up doctors on a smart speaker — is unlikely to improve care beyond well-heeled consumers who already have plenty of access. “People who have Alexas already both have the means to afford these technologies and they have high technical literacy,” which is typically correlated with health literacy, Northeastern […]

“I didn’t want to keep them in the freezer in my basement,” Dr. Litvaitis said of her flatworms, adding that blackouts are not uncommon in her New Hampshire neighborhood. She reached out to the Ocean Genome Legacy Center, a marine DNA genome bank near Boston that is part of Northeastern University, to see if it […]

Wendy Parmet, director of the Center for Health Policy and Law at Northeastern University School of Law, said she couldn’t rule out the possibility that the state would try to tie the recommendation to some sort of legal enforcement measure. But she too felt the impact would mostly be to further undermine confidence among parents. […]

The Pennsylvania court’s 2021 ruling had “nothing to do with guilt or innocence,” Northeastern University Professor of Law and Criminal Justice Daniel Medwed previously told PEOPLE. “It’s really more of a reaction to what I would consider a prosecutorial misstep.”