That makes “Cowboy Bebop” part of a larger phenomenon observed by scholars like Amy Lu, associate professor at Northeastern University. In a 2009 study, Lu asked more than 1,000 people to identify the race of nearly 350 anime protagonists, based solely on images of their faces. “Cowboy Bebop’s” Spike Spiegel was one of them. 

The deliberations are private, and legal experts caution against speculating about what could be happening inside the jury room. But the longer the process lasts, the more it seems there are potential divisions among the jurors, said Daniel S. Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University.

Ravi Sarathy, a professor of international business and strategy at Northeastern University, said airlines are making the right moves, such as reducing schedules and putting staff in spots where problems are most likely to occur. Even so, he said, some elements are out of their control, such as weather.

Meg Heckman is an assistant professor of journalism at Northeastern University, where she leverages historical and contemporary research to dismantle journalism’s macho culture and improve representation of women in news media. 

Polli notes that Pymetrics hired a team from Northeastern University to audit its algorithmic tests to ensure they didn’t produce a disparate impact on race or gender, and she says the New York law “could be a big moment for the responsible regulation of this field.”

Polli notes that Pymetrics hired a team from Northeastern University to audit its algorithmic tests to ensure they didn’t produce a disparate impact on race or gender, and she says the New York law “could be a big moment for the responsible regulation of this field.”

Professor Stephen Flynn joins NPR’s Planet Money podcast to discuss what broke the global supply chain and how the ports are working to clear the bottlenecks.

“To put it in stark terms, you could be saving one life or you could be saving 10 lives for the same price,” said Leo Beletsky, a professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University. “This is a symptom of broader dysfunction in the US pharmaceutical industry, where public health concerns are secondary to financial […]

“Not a lot of adults want to jump off the sidelines to take these jobs,” said Alicia Modestino, an economist and professor at Northeastern University in Boston.

Wendy Parmet, a Northeastern University law professor who focuses on public health law, noted that OSHA issued regulations around how companies should handle HIV, also a communicable disease. “We don’t have anything quite comparable. We have not had a pandemic of this kind of severity since OSHA has been created, but it did respond to […]

It should be noted that an estimated 380,000 guns are stolen from private owners each year, according to a 2017 study by researchers at Harvard and Northeastern University. And because there is no federal law requiring owners to report stolen guns, many simply do not.

Almost three-quarters (74 percent) of college and university students have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, and about half of all students attend colleges with a COVID-19 vaccination mandate, according to a new national survey conducted by researchers at Harvard, Northeastern, Northwestern and Rutgers Universities as part of the COVID States Project: A 50-State COVID-19 […]