At least that’s the view of Samuel Scarpino, an assistant professor at Northeastern University and director of the school’s Emergent Epidemics Laboratory.

“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. “Things are going to change, but it’s going to take a long time.”

The new hires are a mix of people with experience in biotech manufacturing as well as fresh college graduates with engineering and chemistry degrees from nearby universities including Northeastern University and Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Mr. Barrows said.

As a society, we often praise people for surviving adversity, said Dr. Kayse Maass, an industrial engineer who leads the Operations Research and Social Justice lab at Northeastern University. “But we do not acknowledge ways systems within our society need to change to promote resiliency or lessen the need for it in the first place.”

“The Gates Foundation’s footprint has been all over the COVID response with respect to access in low- and middle-income countries,” said Northeastern University law professor Brook Baker, a policy analyst for the nonprofit Health GAP, which advocates for equitable access to medicines.

“People who use flexible work practices such as telecommuting or working from home can be seen as less devoted to their career, and putting family and personal life first,” said Kimberly Eddleston, a professor of entrepreneurship and innovation at Northeastern University in Boston and co-author of a study that examined the relationship between remote work and […]

Patricia Davis researches African American cultural memory at Northeastern University and says these community celebrations have been an important way for Black Americans to keep the memory of Juneteenth alive.

When asked about how the holiday has evolved and changed over the years, Kabria Baumgartner, a dean’s associate professor of history and Africana studies and associate director of public history at Northeastern University, called celebrations of the holiday “dynamic.”

Meg Heckman, a professor of journalism at Northeastern University in Boston, researches the role of women in journalism. She said she would be playing the clip to her students to trigger a discussion when they return in the fall.

“They read the papers – and they are part of the world,” said Daniel Urman, a Northeastern University constitutional law specialist. “They know that court’s credibility is what really matters, that its legitimacy is at stake, and they know that the court cannot be too far out of step. These decisions show us that the […]

Peter Enrich, a member of the vocational coalition and emeritus professor at Northeastern University School of Law, said merely ensuring comparable demographics at voc schools and sending districts does not meet federal civil rights standards. “That’s not the requirement,” he said during Thursday’s virtual briefing by advocates.

Women are underrepresented in the biomedical sciences and also face systemic barriers and a lack of support to commercialize their ideas. “There’s multiple levels at which the barriers need to be broken down in order to get real equity,” said Rebecca Shansky, a neuroscientist at Northeastern University who was not involved with the study.