The decision to overturn the conviction “has nothing to do with guilt or innocence,” says Northeastern University Professor of Law and Criminal Justice Daniel Medwed. “This isn’t a referendum on whether Cosby committed this act. It’s really more of a reaction to what I would consider a prosecutorial misstep,” adds Medwed.

Sebastian Stockman is a teaching professor in English at Northeastern University. He writes A Saturday Letter at sebastianstockman.substack.com

Modeled air temperature in Boston, Cambridge and Brookline. (Maps created by researchers at the Museum of Science, Boston and the Helmuth Lab at Northeastern University)

That is why, as David Lazer at Northeastern University in Boston, Massacusetts, and colleagues write, researchers who work with large data sets must resist drawing conclusions from just the trends or patterns seen in the numbers — and should account for factors that could affect a result.

Dr. Mehrdad Sasani, a professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Northeastern University, told ABC News that the method in which Champlain South’s support structure was built would usually allow it to withstand disturbances to the soil near the surface, which means the impact of the excavation for the neighboring construction would […]

Bert Spector Associate Professor of International Business and Strategy at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University

Mehrdad Sasani, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern University, and Joel Figueroa-Vallines, president of SEP Engineers, have said the available information about the building, along with video of the collapse, suggest something may have failed near the foundation of the building. They’ve also said that, rather than a single smoking gun, a […]

Dan Kennedy, a journalism professor at Northeastern University, called out major news outlets including the Times, Reuters, and the Boston Globe for running native ads in which Philip Morris, the tobacco giant, promotes research around smoke-free products. Most newspapers stopped taking cigarette ads a long time ago; Kennedy argues that they should now “take the next step” and refuse to […]

Shawn Bhimani is an assistant professor of supply chain management at Northeastern University. 

Laurie Kramer, a professor of applied psychology at Northeastern University in Boston, said it is difficult to untangle the reasons for these apparent links. “People seem to be healthier, happier and better adjusted — all of those things are related to having positive relationships with siblings, you know, and a lot of that comes from […]

For thousands of years, there’s been a common belief in Western culture about emotions — that they are hard-wired and reflexive, psychologist Lisa Feldman Barrett writes in the book How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain. “When something happens in the world … our emotions come on fast and uncontrollable, as if somebody […]

Lisa Feldman Barrett is a psychologist at Northeastern University. She says that over time, it becomes easier to feel this mood-boosting emotion. LISA FELDMAN BARRETT: It may sound hokey in the abstract, but I can guarantee you that if you practice it, then that practice is essentially helping to rewire your brain to be able […]