Max Abrahms, a professor of political science and public policy at Northeastern University, said Putin’s remarks about both countries being “committed to discussions” about cybersecurity were a positive signal.

“It’s super cool from an engineering standpoint,” says Northeastern University roboticist Hanumant Singh, who develops ocean robots but wasn’t involved in this research. “It’s really an amazing piece of work, in terms of looking at an area that’s unexplored in the ocean.”

But the buzz it generated was to be expected, explains Ted Clark, executive director of the Northeastern University Center for Family Business. “When family businesses work well, nothing beats them,” he says. “This obviously at one point worked super well. But now with the bickering and fighting, you can’t look away. It’s like a car […]

 GVO staff say they are sometimes treated as “field boys,” good for data collection, but no more, says Jonathan Esole, a DRC-born mathematician at Northeastern University who has visited GVO and advocates on behalf of its staff.

Daniel Medwed, professor at Northeastern University School of Law, said Judge Woodlock’s role overseeing the trial may have played a role in his opinion that Andrade deserved some prison time.

Amazon plans to enable this feature by default, requiring users to opt out if they don’t want the service. “I’m not going to tell someone that this has no value. But I certainly have a lot of concerns,” says David Choffnes of Northeastern University.

A database compiled by The Associated Press, USA Today and Northeastern University that tracks mass killings — defined as four or more dead, not including the perpetrator — shows Tuesday’s shooting in Chicago is the 18th mass killing, of which 17 were shootings, so far this year in the U.S.

Yi Zheng, associate professor of mechanical and industrial engineering at Northeastern University, created “cooling paper” so that a building or home could essentially keep cool on its own, with no electricity required, according to Northeastern University’s blog. 

“To prevent hate crimes requires something completely different. It requires not changing laws, but the thinking of people in this country,” says Levin, now a Northeastern University professor emeritus.

“I think a lot of times advocates for these programs fall into these sorts of traps of trying to produce the evidence that the other side says that it wants to see,” Leo Beletsky, a professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University, told Filter. “But [the other side] doesn’t really want to see evidence. […]

First-time gun owners made up for about 20% of all gun sales in 2019-2021, according to preliminary data from researchers at Northeastern University and the Harvard Injury Control Research Center. 

What they’re saying: James Alan Fox, a criminologist and professor at Northeastern University, told AP there had been a “worrisome … blend of people beginning to get out and about in public” as pandemic restrictions lift.