“It looks to me like we’re very much entering into another surge,” Northeastern University epidemiologist Samuel Scarpino said this week. At the same time, Scarpino said, this surge may not be as bad as the two previous ones, which hit last spring and last fall. Factors working in our favor include a rising level of […]

Alessandro Vespignani, a disease modeler at Northeastern University in Boston, warns that relaxing measures like social distancing now could turn this into a bigger surge. Instead, he says, we need more time for the vaccination campaign to roll out. “We really need to keep fighting for a few weeks,” he says. “We see that light at […]

“There’s a lot that can be done with $100,000 to help people get their lives into a good and productive place,” said Susan Sered, a sociology professor with Northeastern University’s Center for Women’s Health and Human Rights. “There’s a whole lot that can be done for $50 million, so this is a little bit mind-boggling.”

“This is really disturbing,” said Nada Sanders, who teaches supply chain management at Northeastern University. Sanders says think of this like what happened at the Suez Canal, where one major error backs up the flow of J&J vaccines.

“Alden is offering a clean bid; they have cash and are waving it in front of the shareholders,” said Dan Kennedy, a Northeastern University journalism professor.

Stephen Flynn, professor of political science at Northeastern University, told CNBC this scale of disruption would have cascading effects. Knock-on disruptions include congestion at ports and vessels being delayed for their next scheduled journey.  

Ravi Sundaram, professor of computer science at Northeastern University, went further in an email interview. “The problem is worse than what Javier Guzman says – it is not restricted to malicious mafias and unwilling governments but there is passive connivance from big tech (search, social network, ads, e-commerce) in turning a blind eye to illegal sales so […]

A survey by researchers at Northeastern University estimated that 22% of guns are sold that way — as were, for example, the weapons used in a 2019 mass shooting in Midland and Odessa, Texas.

Lewiston-raised tech investor David Roux and his wife, Barbara, donated $100 million to Boston-based Northeastern University to seed the institute, and the Harold Alfond Foundation has since given another $100 million in support. 

“The rapidly increasing number of COVID-19 cases in teens and young adults is very troubling. Tragically, states — like Massachusetts — ignored the advice of public health officials and re-opened too quickly,” said Sam Scarpino, an assistant professor in the emerging epidemics lab at Northeastern University.

The defense counsel may not be aware of the racial overtones in his arguments, but his words paint Williams as someone whose anger overpowered and colored his perception of the event, according to Deborah A. Ramirez, professor of law at the Northeastern University School of Law.

GBH Morning Edition host Joe Mathieu spoke with Northeastern University law professor and GBH News legal analyst Daniel Medwed about what comes next.