Northeastern University announced Sunday that faculty and staff will be required to be vaccinated against the coronavirus in time for the fall semester. “Now, as cases of COVID-19 tick upward across the country and a more contagious strain of SARS-CoV-2 — the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 — gains traction, university officials are requiring faculty and […]

“When you’re looking at state and local reparations policies, I think it is going to be really interesting to see what kinds of challenges are brought and how the legal landscape develops these policies, said Katie Sandson, a fellow at the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project at Northeastern University’s Law School.

Northeastern University is the latest Massachusetts college to require workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19 at a time when cases are rising and concern is growing about the need for new precautions. Northeastern, with roughly 18,000 employees, said it was taking the action in light of the more contagious Delta strain, which has shown to […]

“How do you address a problem when you don’t even know what the problem is?” asked Leo Beletsky, a professor at Northeastern University in Boston who studies the health impact of laws and policing. “In Texas, you have this everyone-for-themselves mentality.”

The national poll was conducted in June and July by the COVID States Project, a group of researchers at Northeastern University, Harvard University, Rutgers University and Northwestern University. It included a survey of 707 Texans and findings in the state carried a margin of error of 4.7 percentage points.

The study, conducted by The COVID-19 Consortium for Understanding the Public’s Policy Preferences Across States — a multi-institutional project that includes Harvard University and Northeastern University — surveyed over 20,000 people across all 50 states and Washington, D.C., between June 9 and July 7.

Northeastern University said all faculty and staff based in the United States will be required to be vaccinated against COVID-19 by the fall semester. In April, the university said all undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students were required to be vaccinated for the fall semester.

According to Northeastern University Law School’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice project — which built an archive of more than 1,100 racially motivated homicides that occurred during the Jim Crow era and was first to unearth the FBI file on Hall — at least 28 active-duty African American soldiers were killed in the United States […]

The New York Times reported in May that preliminary data from Northeastern University and the Harvard Injury Control Research Center showed that a fifth of the people who bought guns in the U.S. last year were first-time owners.

The collection also includes a foreword by the science fiction writer Bruce Sterling and an introduction by Joseph Reagle, an associate professor of communication studies at Northeastern who writes and teaches about popular culture , digital communication, and online communities.

At Northeastern University, the Beneath The Waves team offers graduate student mentorship for those interested in pursuing careers in marine science.

Taken together, those gaps have created what Weiner calls a “black hole” in valuable patient data. That makes it difficult for modelers like Muhammad Noor E Alam, an assistant professor of mechanical and industrial engineering at Northeastern University, to gather enough useful data to develop models that can actually improve treatment outcomes or help curb […]