It’s the second year for the 733-square-foot island that was planted on a raft and placed by the Charles River Conservancy in partnership with researchers from Northeastern University. “There’s irises, there’s bulrush. There’s almost 30 different native species out on the island,” said Northeaster researcher Max Rome.

 Lazer is a professor of political science and computer sciences at Northeastern University and co-director of the NULab for Texts Maps and Networks.

“The messaging has not been as clear and as helpful as it could have been,” said Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern University’s center for health policy and law. “Health officials, media, and folks who support vaccination perhaps oversold it in ways, so now the breakthrough cases seem inconsistent and undermining.”

IN THE EARLY 2010s, Angela Kilby was seeking a topic for her PhD thesis in economics at MIT. Intrigued, she wanted to know more. So in the late 2010s, having become an assistant professor at Northeastern University, she decided to simulate the machine-learning model that generates NarxCare’s most algorithmically sophisticated measure, the Overdose Risk Score.

Alan Clayton-Matthews, professor emeritus at Northeastern University, warned that the mutant’s continued spread could throw a wrench in the rosy economic projections for the rest of 2021.

Alan Clayton-Matthews, professor emeritus at Northeastern University, warned that the mutant’s continued spread could throw a wrench in the rosy economic projections for the rest of 2021.

Shedding new light on the problem of vaccine resistance, a survey released Tuesday by a consortium that includes Northeastern University and Harvard University found that 20 percent of Americans believed at least one of four false claims about the coronavirus vaccine.

Daniel Medwed, GBH News legal analyst and Northeastern law professor Daniel Medwed joined Aaron Schachter on Morning Edition to discuss whether these vaccine mandates are likely to withstand the inevitable flurry of courtroom challenges.

Leo Beletsky, a professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University in Boston, told the New York Times that “it was not biologically possible” to experience overdose symptoms, or to die, from touching or being exposed to the drug.

“It is very clear that you cannot overdose by touching fentanyl,” said Dr. Leo Beletsky, a professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University in Boston and an associate adjunct professor of public health at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine.

“I imagine there are more than 100 billion chips in daily use around the world,” says Matteo Rinaldi, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Northeastern University. “So think about how many transistors and semiconductors we use in our lives everyday.”

An opioid overdose tends to leave victims with shallow, almost undetectable breath, limp limbs, blue lips and fingertips, and gurgling sounds coming from the mouth, said Leo Beletsky, a professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University in Boston.