Some epidemiologists are arguing the government should have been better prepared from the beginning to respond to hot spots with vaccines to slow the spread of more transmissible variants. “We should have held a tranche of vaccines in reserve for surging to variants,” said Samuel Scarpino, an epidemiologist at Northeastern University.

“It takes away any ambiguity about whether individuals should be vaccinated,” said Kenneth Henderson, the chancellor of Northeastern University in Boston. “It also provides a level of confidence for the entire community that we are taking all appropriate measures.”

Lifespan researcher and Northeastern professor Dr. Christie Rizzo developed the Date SMART program, which uses techniques to help teens build skills necessary for healthy relationships

Daniel Medwed, distinguished professor of law and criminal justice at Northeastern University School of Law, told Insider that while there’s no legal problem with the timing of the settlement because civil and criminal court processes are separate, “it could create a practical glitch down the road.”

While the research spotlights issues at Facebook, a lasting fix for the problem has so far eluded the industry, said Piotr Sapiezynski, a computer-science researcher at Northeastern University who collaborated with the USC team on past research into racial disparities in the delivery of job ads.

“The global economy is vulnerable because it never really recovered,” said Nada Sanders, a professor of supply chain management at Northeastern University. “There is massive pent-up consumer demand, but it’s important to have supply and demand connected because when you have a supply shortage you don’t have the products consumers want.”

Mary Jo Ondrechen, Ph.D., professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Northeastern University.

A team of independent researchers including Korolova, led by Northeastern University’s Muhammad Ali and Piotr Sapieżyński , corroborated those allegations a week later. They found, for example, that houses for sale were being shown more often to white users and houses for rent were being shown more often to minority users.

“What most of us want is a safe return to something that looks more normal,” says Samuel Scarpino, who models the coronavirus outbreak at Northeastern University. “That to me means 80% to 85%, probably, vaccinated.”

Samuel Scarpino, director of the Emergence Epidemic Lab at Northeastern University in Boston, says he spends hours each day trying to track the U.K. variant but cannot say definitively how widespread it is in Massachusetts.

Still, calls to boycott baseball or stop attending games are unlikely to have much of an effect on the MLB’s bottom line, judging from the experience of other major professional leagues, said Roger Abrams, an emeritus professor at the Northeastern University School of Law in Boston.

A mass killing where two siblings are the perpetrators is rare, said James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University.