“[Uhlig] is missing the point of her nomination,” added Alicia Sasser Modestino, an economics professor at Northeastern University. “Right now the Fed needs an economist who understands the economic history of Black innovation to build an inclusive recovery.”

Daniel Medwed, Northeastern University law professor and GBH News legal analyst, joined hosts Paris Alston and Jeremy Siegel on Morning Edition today to talk about the case and the Massachusetts juvenile justice system.

But according to Psyche Loui, director of the Music, Imaging and Neural Dynamics Lab at Northeastern University, there’s nothing special about Mozart. Instead, it seems that early exposure to music, particularly in the form of musical activity and training, may have benefits that extend beyond children’s intelligence.

In her book Seven and a Half Lessons about the Brain, Lisa Feldman Barrett, a neuroscientist at Northeastern University, suggests that all this synchronizing is just a part of being a social species — and often a very advantageous part. “One advantage,” she writes, “is that we live longer if we have close, supportive relationships with […]

“For the next few weeks, we should see a decrease in epidemic activity. All of the indicators seem to go down,” Alessandro Vespignani said to VOA. Vespignani is the director of the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University and leads a team of infectious-disease modelers who have been developing COVID-19 projections since the pandemic began.

“We’ve been seeing this done here, in Ghana, in Bangladesh, all over India, at the UK Health Security Administration,” says Samuel Scarpino, the Institute’s managing director of pathogen surveillance and affiliate faculty at Northeastern University, where he worked on the Somerville city project. “But there’s nobody pulling all of that information together, layering it with […]

Leo Beletsky, a law and health sciences professor at Northeastern University School of Law, told the Associated Press he was let down by the White House’s reaction to the GOP outrage. “This administration has said repeatedly they are making harm reduction one of their key priorities,” he stated. “As soon as there’s a little right-wing echo chamber […]

Leo Beletsky, professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University School of Law, said he was disappointed by the White House response. “This administration has said repeatedly they are making harm reduction one of their key priorities,” Beletsky said. “As soon as there’s a little right-wing echo chamber pushback against something that is quite […]

The truth, as always, is much messier, as historian and Northeastern University professor Edward H. Miller demonstrates in his new book, “A Conspiratorial Life: Robert Welch, the John Birch Society, and the Revolution of American Conservatism,” published this month by the University of Chicago Press.

Daniel Medwed, a law and criminal justice professor at Northeastern University, said “the key finding is that drivers of color are more likely to be searched and given citations after a stop.” That, he said, is “revealing about potential police biases in making judgment calls about whether a search is warranted or a citation merited […]

Daniel Medwed, GBH News legal analyst and Northeastern University law professor, joined host Henry Santoro on Morning Edition to discuss legal issues around the case.

Researchers at Northeastern University have shown that people who perceive higher levels of partisan polarization are at greater risk for depression and anxiety. The pandemic has already taken years off our lives. Physicians who choose the partisan route of abandoning the unvaccinated risk worsening the nation’s physical and mental health.