Global.health was created by a consortium of researchers from institutions including the University of Oxford, Tsinghua University, Northeastern University and Boston Children’s Hospital, using funding from Google’s charity arm Google.org.

Last January, Samuel Scarpino wasn’t sure what to make of Covid-19. The director of Northeastern University’s Emergent Epidemics Lab, he, along with every other epidemiologist in the world, was trying to interpret the earliest data on the new virus.

“Our study differs from most of the previous work on adolescent bullying in that we don’t focus solely on the individual characteristics of young people, but instead pay attention to the broader social context in which adolescents are situated,” Dr. Cassie McMillan, professor of sociology and anthropology at Northeastern University, told Salon by email. 

GBH Morning Edition host Joe Mathieu spoke with Northeastern University law professor and GBH News legal analyst Daniel Medwed about the proposed measures, how they would work, and how they line up with how other states are approaching decriminalization.

This approach is a common impulse among teachers, according to Shaunna Harrington, an assistant teaching professor at Northeastern University, who teaches a graduate education class called Teaching History. “They look at racism as a topic, rather than looking at history through a racial lens,” said Harrington, who is White.

“It’s really tragic that this is not surprising,” said Samuel Scarpino, a Northeastern University epidemiologist. “The risk that we would mismanage this, especially federally,” was clear early last spring, he said.

The Big Four firm partnered with Northeastern University to create a masters in accounting program that combines online learning with real-world experience. Participants will be working with PwC’s private client services group; the time they spend on the job transfers into course credit. Earning this degree puts accountants one step closer to becoming a CPA — an accountant who […]

A worldwide entrepreneur network plans to assist young technology companies at the Roux Institute at Northeastern University in Portland. Colorado-based entrepreneur network Techstars said Monday that it has partnered with the technology school to create a business accelerator program intended to provide 10 companies a year with funding, mentorship and access to its network of […]

A separate study from Northeastern University, which has yet to be published in a peer-reviewed journal, also found wide gaps in protectiveness — anywhere from 30 percent to 90 percent — between different kinds of fabric masks.

The Roux Institute in Portland is now accepting applications for a new program designed to bring new business and jobs to Maine. The “Roux Institute Tech Stars Accelerator” program will recruit 10 of the best start-ups in artificial intelligence, data analytics, health and life sciences.

Northeastern University’s Roux Institute in Portland is teaming up with a Boulder, Colo.-based seed investment firm called Techstars to launch an accelerator for technology startups, they announced on Monday.

“We’re standing at an inflection point,” said Sam Scarpino, assistant professor at Northeastern University and director of the school’s Emergent Epidemics Lab. Thanks to the arrival of vaccines, he said, “we finally have the chance right now to bring this back under control, but if we ease up now, we may end up wasting all […]