Daniel Aldrich, director of the security and resilience studies program at Northeastern University in Boston, told VOA Mandarin that “China has not offered vaccines to South Korea, Japan, or other neighboring countries; instead, it has focused on projecting its soft power abroad to developing nations where it hopes to create a favorable reputation and build […]

Early last year, shortly before Covid began shutting down the U.S., I reached out to two of the researchers who had been studying this phenomenon, Muhammad Ali and Piotr Sapiezynski of Northeastern University.

Meanwhile, as needle exchanges grow nationwide, similar disputes have flared up in California and Washington state. “It’s easy to beat up on West Virginia, but this is a nationwide problem, and these kinds of disputes are happening all over the country,” Leo Beletsky, a public health law expert at Northeastern University, told BuzzFeed News.

The police departments will open up their arrest files and ask researchers from the University of Southern Maine and Northeastern University to do a deep dive into the data.

“Federal government: This was paid for by taxpayer dollars. You don’t really have the right to delete or remove it,” Sara Wylie, an associate professor at Northeastern University and a cofounder of EDGI, told The Verge last year.

A vaccine’s ability to block transmission doesn’t need to be 100% to make a difference. Even 70% effectiveness would be “amazing”, says Samuel Scarpino, a network scientist who studies infectious diseases at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. But there could still be a substantial amount of virus spread that would make it a lot harder […]

The University of Southern Maine’s Cutler Institute and Northeastern University’s Institute on Race and Justice will undertake a 12-month study of three years of policing data from each city to determine whether either department’s enforcement activities have been biased against people of color. Jack McDevitt, director of Northeastern’s Institute on Race and Justice, said he […]