Much of the research uses small samples with varying degrees of rigor, and more needs to be studied about how a patient’s activity in the virtual world translates into improved performance in the physical world, said Danielle Levac, an assistant professor in the department of physical therapy, movement and rehabilitation sciences at Northeastern University. 

That effort to separate Chauvin from police was “a wise choice” to appeal to any jurors who might be uneasy with some of the sharpest criticisms of police and calls to reform or defund them, said Daniel S. Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University. “They didn’t want to make it a trial about policing, […]

Voice-based assistants encode biases present in the training examples. These include accent understanding, gender bias, geographic bias, religious bias and so on. Awareness of these biases is the first step. In the near future I expect research will be carried out to understand the impact of these biases on consumers—in the same way that biases […]

A poll released in March by a consortium that includes Northeastern, Harvard, Rutgers, and Northwestern universities also found Massachusetts with the lowest percentage among the states of residents who said they “would not get the COVID-19 vaccine.” Samuel Scarpino, an epidemiologist at Northeastern University, said it was good news that people in Massachusetts are receptive to getting […]

This rise in violence comes after 2020, which saw the start of the pandemic and the smallest number of mass killings in more than a decade, according to a database compiled by The Associated Press, USA Today and Northeastern University.

Daniel Medwed, a criminal justice professor at Northeastern University’s School of Law, said the state has had a much easier time making their case considering the magnitude of their central piece of evidence: video of Floyd’s death. “It’s often said a picture’s worth 1000 words,” he told VICE News. “And with that video, what are […]

Since 2006, there have been 14 workplace massacres with at least four people killed that stemmed from employment grievances, according to the Associated Press/USA Today/Northeastern University Mass Killing Database (of which I am one of the principals).

Mass shootings in American workplaces are not a new phenomenon, said James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University. In one of the most notorious examples, a mail carrier in trouble with his supervisors opened fire in a crowded post office in Oklahoma, killing 14 workers and injuring seven others before killing himself. The violent attack in […]

James Alan Fox is the Lipman Professor of Criminology, Law and Public Policy at Northeastern University and a member of the USA TODAY Board of Contributors.

Her decision points to a larger political calculus, said Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University. “She has probably made the calculation that she is better off without the police, which is amazing,” he said. “Because the support of the police is, to some extent, code for the support of white voters in Boston.”

“It’s quite possible there will be an increase in these kinds of killings when people who have been working remotely start to return,” said James Alan Fox, a criminology professor at Northeastern University in Boston and one of the nation’s top experts on mass killings.

It follows a lull in mass killings during the pandemic in 2020, which had the smallest number of such attacks in more than a decade, according to a database compiled by The Associated Press, USA Today and Northeastern University. That database tracks mass killings defined as four or more dead, not including the shooter.