“You can talk to older adults and they’ll tell you what happened when they were 5,” said Laurie Kramer, who studies sibling relationships at Northeastern University. “They’re stuck on that.”

As someone who has studied mass killings for more than 40 years and manages the Associated Press/USA TODAY/Northeastern University Mass Killing Database, I’ve kept a close eye on the social factors and public policies that have contributed to upward and downward swings in mass killings.

“The first reason is just pure efficiency,” said Deborah Ramirez, a professor at Northeastern University School of Law and a former federal prosecutor.

Wendy Parmet studies health care policy at Northeastern University and joins NPR’s All Things Considered.

How cephalopods achieve this instant camouflage is a mystery that has fascinated humans since at least 350 B.C., when Aristotle made observations on the subject, says Leila Deravi, an associate professor at Northeastern University whose  BioMaterials Design Group specializes in biomimicry.

In the U.S., “work is the single most important way of proving your worth” as a person, Steven Vallas, professor emeritus of sociology at Northeastern University, previously told CNBC.

Op-ed by Deborah Ramirez, the co-director of the Center for Law, Equity and Race at Northeastern University School of Law.

Northeastern University PhD candidate Nail Bashan believes public transit is the best thing we can have in our cities. Bashan’s research focuses on urban mobility and the urban experience. 

European nations, Japan, South Korea and China are likely to try to fill the diplomatic vacuum. China, in particular, will have the authority to lead, said Maria Ivanova, the director of Northeastern University’s School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs.

When top-ranked college Northeastern University unveiled plans to open a small campus on the fifth floor of 277 Pleasant St., part of the Durfee-Union Mills complex — already home to Prima CARE medical center and Saint Anne’s Hospital outpatient services — it did so with a commitment to being an integral part of the Fall River community

Flu seasons, as a rule, differ drastically from one another, and “we don’t have a great understanding of why one ends up being more severe than another,” Samuel Scarpino, an infectious-disease-modeling researcher at Northeastern University, told me.

Jill Abramson, a former executive editor of The New York Times, teaches journalism at Northeastern University and is a contributing Globe Opinion writer.