“We could talk about buying American all we want but if we have not ensured the supply chain is functioning, we’re going to continue to have shortages and stock outs,” said Nada Sanders, a professor of supply chain management at Northeastern University.

By mid-January 2020, epidemiologists were doing just this for SARS-CoV-2 — but had not come to a consensus about their findings. Sam Scarpino, an epidemiologist who directs the Emergent Epidemics Lab at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, tweeted that the evidence didn’t confirm sustained human-to-human transmission. And he remembers Rivers responding to him in a direct message: […]

Global.health was created by a consortium of researchers from institutions including the University of Oxford, Tsinghua University, Northeastern University and Boston Children’s Hospital, using funding from Google’s charity arm Google.org.

“Our study differs from most of the previous work on adolescent bullying in that we don’t focus solely on the individual characteristics of young people, but instead pay attention to the broader social context in which adolescents are situated,” Dr. Cassie McMillan, professor of sociology and anthropology at Northeastern University, told Salon by email. 

GBH Morning Edition host Joe Mathieu spoke with Northeastern University law professor and GBH News legal analyst Daniel Medwed about the proposed measures, how they would work, and how they line up with how other states are approaching decriminalization.

This approach is a common impulse among teachers, according to Shaunna Harrington, an assistant teaching professor at Northeastern University, who teaches a graduate education class called Teaching History. “They look at racism as a topic, rather than looking at history through a racial lens,” said Harrington, who is White.

The Big Four firm partnered with Northeastern University to create a masters in accounting program that combines online learning with real-world experience. Participants will be working with PwC’s private client services group; the time they spend on the job transfers into course credit. Earning this degree puts accountants one step closer to becoming a CPA — an accountant who […]

A worldwide entrepreneur network plans to assist young technology companies at the Roux Institute at Northeastern University in Portland. Colorado-based entrepreneur network Techstars said Monday that it has partnered with the technology school to create a business accelerator program intended to provide 10 companies a year with funding, mentorship and access to its network of […]

A separate study from Northeastern University, which has yet to be published in a peer-reviewed journal, also found wide gaps in protectiveness — anywhere from 30 percent to 90 percent — between different kinds of fabric masks.