Dispelling any notion that the Mills College merger with Northeastern University announced in September 2021 means the Oakland-based higher education institution will slink quietly into the night—or the college’s commitment to cultivating women’s leadership subsumed or eclipsed—the 2021–22 Mills Music Now Concert Series strikes an impressive profile. 

That’s not an exception; prices rose significantly in three-fourths of mergers studied after they were approved by the antitrust agencies, according to studies conducted by Northeastern University professor John Kwoka.

But, according to Brook Baker, a professor of law at Northeastern University who has tracked the negotiations over the drug, the price of a course of treatment could fall below $10 as competition increases among manufacturers and production scale grows.

Daniel Medwed, GBH News legal analyst and Northeastern University law professor, joined Henry Santoro on Morning Edition to discuss the legal issues. This transcript has been edited for clarity and length.

The numbers have been soaring: gun homicides by intimate partners jumped 58% over the last decade, according to never-before-published FBI data analyzed for Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting by James Alan Fox, a professor and criminologist at Northeastern University. The pandemic has been an especially lethal period for abuse victims, Fox found; gun […]

By March 2020, for every SARS-CoV-2 infection diagnosed in the United States, another 97 to 99 infections went undetected, according to a report published in Nature on Monday. “Transmission is likely to have begun by late January in California and early February in New York state, but possibly up to two weeks earlier in Italy,” […]

Ravi Sundaram is a professor of computer science in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University in Boston. 

Massachusetts had the third-highest rate of COVID-19 infections in the US by July of last year, according to a Northeastern University study that modeled how the coronavirus emerged on the nation’s coasts but spread most rapidly in the Northeast in the first wave.

After 2016’s Hurricane Matthew, though, researchers from UNC-Chapel Hill and Northeastern University interviewed 295 homeowners on sounds in Carteret and Dare counties and the Intracoastal Waterway in Brunswick County. They found that about 24% of the homeowners with bulkheads and 12% of the homeowners with living shorelines reported damage to their property.  

Researchers at Northeastern University in America have developed a process that uses cow manure as a filter that then purifies the otherwise undrinkable seawater.

The selective private school will be the 10th campus of Northeastern University, a Boston institution that’s been expanding globally for a decade and attracting buzz — and thousands of applications — because it entwines academics with internships in high-profile companies and agencies, from NASA to Microsoft.

The country has suffered through five waves of the pandemic now, depending on how you count. “Each of these waves has a different complexity and pattern,” said Alessandro Vespignani, the director of the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University in Boston.