Evan Selinger is a professor of philosophy at the Rochester Institute of Technology and an affiliate scholar at Northeastern University’s Center for Law, Innovation, and Creativity.

Wendy Parmet, the director of Northeastern University’s Center for Health Policy and Law who has taught and written about public health law for decades, said she’s noticed a backlash against public health powers and decision-making at the judicial and legislative levels. She said she fears legislators are reacting to the heat of the moment, and […]

On this front, Instagram says it has expanded its “Youth Advisors” group to include new experts like Jutta Croll at Stiftung Digitale Chancen, Pattie Gonsalves at Sangath and It’s Okay To Talk, Vicki Shotbolt at ParentZone UK, Alfiee M. Breland-Noble at AAKOMA Project, Rachel Rodgers at Northeastern University, Janis Whitlock at Cornell University, and Amelia Vance at the Future of Privacy Forum.

Researchers from Northeastern University, Massachusetts, are working to eliminate the stiff, jerky motions in robotic arms to make them deft enough to gently pick up an egg or sturdy enough to stack dinner plates. “With no motors in the arm, they are much lighter than a traditional arm,” said Peter Whitney, assistant professor of mechanical […]

Op-ed by David Lazer (@davidlazer), Jon Green (@_Jon_Green), Katherine Ognyanova (@Ognyanova), Matthew Baum (@matthewabaum), Jennifer Lin (@jennifer_lin16), James Druckman, Roy Perlis (@royperlis), Mauricio Santillana (@MauSantillana), Matthew Simonson (@mattysimonson) and Ata Uslu (@Atauslu) are scholars studying the U.S. coronavirus response.

Burned by post-Charlottesville lawsuits, far-right extremists are careful and savvy in their rhetoric, says Jack McDevitt, a criminologist at Northeastern University who has written two books on hate crimes. 

Different methods of construction will display structural problems in different ways, said Mehrdad Sasani, an engineering professor at Northeastern University whose expertise is in concrete structures. “Steel structures do not have the type of cracks that concrete structures have,” Sasani said.

“The legal framework has evolved in ways that will complicate and perhaps undermine efforts to deal with the next public health crisis or even routine health threats,” said Wendy Parmet, director of the Northeastern University Center for Health Policy and Law, who also said she has been a “long critic of emergency laws and their […]

An uptick in crime in certain Boston neighborhoods appears to be linked to the introduction of Airbnb rentals, according to a study out of Northeastern University.

A Northeastern University professor has developed a paper-based material that can sustainably cool buildings, offering a potential alternative to traditional air conditioning.

Airbnb has ingrained itself into travel culture in recent years. But a new study from Northeastern University links the growth of units listed on the short-term rental app in Boston to 911 calls reporting violent crimes.

One of the more striking findings, as David Lazer, a professor of political science and computer science at Northeastern, explained in a recent interview, is that even as vaccines have arrived and society has opened up, some measures of loneliness have not abated.