Prymus Insurance in Texas asked Deborah Ramirez, a law professor and police-accountability expert at Northeastern University’s law school in Massachusetts, to analyze how much personal liability insurance should cost for cops in Colorado. Her law students are building a database of payouts for police cases based on records from the state’s five biggest cities.

Using video and considering context is “absolutely a step forward” for the field, says Lisa Feldman Barrett, a professor and psychologist at Northeastern University, who wrote an accompanying commentary on the study. “The question that they’re asking strikes right at the heart of the nature of emotion,” she remarks, but there’s a risk that such […]

Alessandro Vespignani, a computational epidemiologist at Northeastern University in Boston, who analysed the effects of travel restrictions on the spread of the virus, will also be spending Christmas at home with his immediate family. 

If stress makes you snap, your first move is to apologize, followed with something along the lines of, “That was not a productive response,” says Laura Dudley, associate clinical professor of applied psychology at Northeastern University. 

But a new study jointly published by Google, Apple, Stanford University, OpenAI, the University of California, Berkeley, and Northeastern University demonstrates the pitfall of this training approach

GBH Morning Edition host Joe Mathieu spoke with Northeastern University law professor and GBH News legal analyst Daniel Medwed about that case from Texas and why it was ultimately struck down by the Supreme Court.

“The real concern isthere might not be any options left except for a lockdown,” said Sam Scarpino, director of Northeastern University’s Emergent Epidemics Lab.