If the foundation was under stress and moving, it would almost certainly have been apparent for weeks, if not longer, said Mehrdad Sasani, a professor of environmental engineering at Northeastern University in Boston. “Usually, such failures are not sudden,” he said. “People should have seen (substantial) cracks, they should have heard noises for a long time. […]

But there are several reasons why buildings do collapse, and some telltale signs to look for if you’re worried about the relative safety of your building, said Mehrad Sasani, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern University.

Mehrdad Sasani, a Northeastern University professor who has studied building collapses, said tragedies like the one in Surfside are rare. Catastrophes are often caused by several factors such as design and construction issues, long-standing deterioration, or excessive use that overloads a building’s structural capacity, he said.

Some of the interviews with family members of the next of kin were produced in collaboration with StoryCorps, a national nonprofit whose mission is to preserve and share humanity’s stories in order to build connections between people and create a more just and compassionate world. The Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project at Northeastern University […]

“If Jonah Peretti and company are serious about not eliminating jobs, then they must believe that scale will enable them to compete for advertising with Facebook and Google in a way that they can’t now,” said Dan Kennedy, a journalism professor at Northeastern University.

Peter Enrich, a law professor at Northeastern University, and Pilar Mata, executive director of the Tax Executives Institute, debate whether states should try to tax Twitter, Facebook, and other media giants

Northeastern University Prof. Mehrdad Sasani said an explosion doesn’t seem likely because of witness accounts so far, and suspects there was a problem with the structure of the building or the foundation.

Curtis L. Odom is an executive professor of management in the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University in Boston. Away from the classroom, he is the managing partner at Prescient Strategists, a distinguished principal researcher at The Conference Board, and a council member of the Forbes Coaches Council.

“How people communicate anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, and surprise varies substantially across cultures, situations, and even across people within a single situation,” stated the report, from a team of researchers led by Lisa Feldman Barrett, of Northeastern University, Mass General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.   

“I think it is important for Cognoa marketing purposes not to conflate de novo classification with product approval [from the FDA],” says Matthew Goodwin, director of the computational behavioral science lab at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts.

Neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett, a University Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University and author of How Emotions Are Made, uses the term “emotional granularity” to describe the ability to name emotions with specificity. 

“We have a really fragile global supply chain that had been overly leaned out,” said Dr. Nada Sanders, distinguished professor of supply chain management at Northeastern University in Boston.