For Northeastern University political scientist Emily Clough, attacking the root causes of poverty and injustice is best achieved by private funding efforts to hold governments accountable.

For Northeastern University political scientist Emily Clough, attacking the root causes of poverty and injustice is best achieved by private funding efforts to hold governments accountable.

“Generally we can see a decline in protective behaviors everywhere post-vaccination,” David Lazer, a researcher with The COVID States Project and Political Science Professor at Northeastern University said in an email. Mask wearing in particular has plummeted, Lazer said.

Northeastern University professor Nick Beauchamp is on the case this year. According to Protocol, Beauchamp used a scraping tool to grab recent Amazon reviews that included the words “no smell” or “no scent” from the three highest-rated Yankee Candles. The rise in these complaints seems to follow the recent spike in COVID cases.

Ramiro Martinez, a homicide researcher and criminology professor at Northeastern University, cited one potential reason why the homicide rate might be lower in Massachusetts: more recent immigrants. “Many places with higher levels of immigration have had relatively lower levels of crime,” he said. “And that’s something that we’ve seen across cities and different places across […]

Criminologists, such as James Alan Fox, a professor at Northeastern University in Boston, attribute the recent nationwide violent crime to a confluence of factors, including the coronavirus pandemic, as well as conflicts over politics and race.

Some researchers, such as Northeastern University psychologist Lisa Feldman Barrett, have questioned whether it is possible to reliably detect emotion from a facial expression. And though already widely used, some facial recognition software has shown evidence of racial bias; one study that compared two mainstream programs found they assigned more negative emotions to Black faces […]

A new Massachusetts proposal—which seems to be getting some traction—could be, in the words of Woody Hartzog, professor of law and computer science at Northeastern University, “the most revolutionary data-privacy legislation in the United States.”

“The U.S. needs to quickly develop a test-and-treat strategy that encourages people to get tested regularly and at first signs of symptoms and then to quickly connect to care,” said Brook Baker, a professor at Northeastern University School of Law and a senior policy analyst at Health GAP, an advocacy group focusing on equity in […]

“We see a ‘two steps forward, one step back’ kind of trend” with “every wave of Covid that comes, where women make some inroads over the summer, or in between waves of Covid,” Alicia Sasser Modestino, an economics professor at Northeastern University, said. “And then the next stretch of rubber hitting the road puts the […]

Jean-Charles is a Northeastern University professor and director of Africana Studies in the university’s Department of Cultures, Societies and Global Studies. Her book is titled “Martin Luther King & the Trumpet of Conscience Today.”

Phase Zero was one of the startups to graduate out of Northeastern University’s Roux Institute inaugural Techstars Accelerator class. The company, founded by engineer Ngoc Le,  helps digital health companies build internal tools, including HIPAA-compliant databases for patient management and care coordination. Following the accelerator, Phase Zero has already signed six customer contracts and is […]