“The law has considerable flaws, including continued criminalization and lack of forethought about agencies responsible for its implementation,” said Leo Beletsky, a professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University.

GBH Morning Edition host Joe Mathieu spoke with Northeastern University law professor and GBH News legal analyst Daniel Medwed to learn more about U.S. intellectual property law and at least one effort underway to get companies to share their vaccine formulas. 

“How organs and tissues know when to stop growing at a certain size and stay there is a major mystery,” says Jake Daane at Northeastern University in Massachusetts. This scaling, known as allometry, is also a key driver of evolutionary change. The stunning variation in the fins of bony fish are a classic example, from the billowing veils […]

The Republican governor, who has led the state through the deadly pandemic for the past year, has been presiding over a vaccination campaign that has left many residents frustrated. David Lazer, a Northeastern University political science and computer science professor who worked on the report, said researchers found that approval ratings for governors’ handling of […]

“There’s definitely a scenario with a coordinated federal response where we had caught the East Coast introductions in time, and have what would’ve amounted to a completely different future with COVID-19,” said Dr. Sam Scarpino, director of the Emergent Epidemics Lab at Northeastern University. “One thing that’s generally true about epidemics, and we’ve seen this […]

Dan Kennedy, a professor of media ethics at Northeastern University, agreed that the incident “raises media ethics concerns” but recognized that “in-the-moment” decisions were required. “You can see what a difficult situation everybody was in,” Kennedy told the newspaper. “Lives were at stake here.”

Enrich, professor of law emeritus at Northeastern University School of Law who serves on the board of left-leaning think tank MassBudget, told MassLive earlier this month. “That is simply a confused narrative that has been exploited by lobbyists for the business community.”

And many bigger companies are sitting on a lot of cash, said John Bai at Northeastern University. They’ve been borrowing a lot in the last year, since interest rates have been near zero.

“The stakes are definitely higher for low income women,” said Alicia Sasser Modestino, a professor of public policy, urban affairs and economics at Northeastern University.

Alicia Sasser Modestino, director of research at Northeastern University’s Dukakis Center, says that Massachusetts has one of the highest rates of female workforce participation, which also means it is one of the states with the greatest dependence on childcare. A survey she conducted in the fall found that a quarter of the women who became […]

It’s the framework that explains why “Black Americans were always inventing,” adds Kara W. Swanson, a law and history professor at Northeastern University. But proper ownership was hard to come by. “Many sold the rights to white men in part because they didn’t have the money to develop or because they were worried that people […]

The $107 million marketing spend by Coursera in 2020 is not unprecedented when you consider the company’s scale and growth, said Sean Gallagher, founder and executive director of Northeastern University’s Center for the Future of Higher Education and Talent Strategy and executive professor of educational policy.