Northeastern University’s Roux Institute in Portland on Tuesday announced the names of 10 startups participating in a 13-week accelerator program in partnership with Techstars, a Boulder, Colo.-based seed investment firm.

Northeastern University opened the Roux Institute last year to bolster Maine’s tech and life sciences sectors with a $100 million donation from David Roux and his wife, Barbara Roux. David Roux is the former chairman and co-chief executive officer of Silver Lake, a private equity firm that focuses on acquiring technology companies.

Many researchers estimate travel with “gravity models,” which assume that movement between cities is proportional to their population sizes. But these models do not account for travel patterns within cities—information that is particularly critical in tackling disease transmission. Northeastern University epidemiologist Sam Scarpino, who was not involved in the study, says models based on this […]

Inside Northeastern University’s Life Sciences Testing Center in Burlington, a delivery cart with hundreds of COVID-19 tests from the Boston campus arrives every few hours. Jared Auclair, the Director of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, at Northeastern University said, “Since school started, we’ve been averaging about 5,500 tests per day.”

The accelerator, which started operations Monday, is a collaboration between the Roux Institute at Northeastern University, a Portland-based graduate school and research center, and Techstars, a Colorado-based startup accelerator with more than 24 locations. The Portland accelerator is the second in New England after Boston.

Not only do researchers often depict the brain and its functions much as mapmakers might draw nations on continents, but they do so “the way old-fashioned mapmakers” did, according to Lisa Feldman Barrett, a psychologist at Northeastern University. “They parse the brain in terms of what they’re interested in psychologically or mentally or behaviorally,” and then […]

Lance Williams, a professor at Northeastern University, said it “kind of puts conflict on steroids.” “Social media exacerbates the problem, because what it does is expands the platform for interpersonal beef,” said Williams, who was one of the authors of “The Fracturing of Gangs and Violence in Chicago,” a report from the Great Cities Institute.

This sensor, developed by Matteo Rinaldi and his team at Northeastern University, shines infrared light on the leaves of a plant. By reading the reflected light, it can tell if the plant is dehydrated or not.

“The case of ivermectin should probably not come as a surprise as it repeats a pattern we saw earlier with hydroxychloroquine,” said Katherine Ognyanova, associate professor at the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University and co-lead of the COVID States Project, a joint research initiative of Northeastern University, Harvard University, Rutgers University and Northwestern University. “Experts are recommending […]

Currently, the Boston Police Department is facing a series of challenges involving police legitimacy that may be among the most daunting in the organization’s history.  Jack McDevitt Northeastern University

“Even the very existence of this crisis is politicized and debated,” said Daniel Aldrich, professor and Director of the Security and Resilience Studies Program at Northeastern University. “No one disagreed that there in fact was an attack on 9/11 that killed several thousand Americans that day.”

Similarly, aligned with the device-related work, “we picked 10 THz as the end. So, 100 GHz to 10 THz. This definition was backed up by agencies within DoD, at the time the main ones investing on fundamental research in this area,” said Jornet, who is now an associate professor at Northeastern University.