Even the coronavirus pandemic has become a measure by which executives are judged. A massive public opinion survey conducted by researchers at Northeastern University, Rutgers, Harvard and Northwestern University in November found that voters gave the highest marks to governors who had enacted some of the strictest lockdown measures.

Brandon Dionne, assistant clinical professor of pharmacy and health systems sciences at Northeastern University said in October that “until we have reached a point where globally we can prevent transmission, there’s always a risk that it could flare back up.”

Schools including Northeastern University and Boston University have elevated their diversity and equity administrators, promoting them to vice president roles so that they have a direct line to the institution’s top leader. Others have boosted their training for faculty, staff, and students and set aside money to hire more diverse professors and ensure that Black and Latino […]

Samuel Scarpino, a Northeastern University epidemiologist, said he also expected that, at some point in the coming months, the focus of the vaccination effort in Massachusetts would turn to younger people. “That would be my assumption — that this first goal is what we want to do for people over 18,” and once younger people […]

“The need for human contact is extremely profound,” says Judith Hall, a psychology professor emeritus at Northeastern University who researched interpersonal touch at the university’s Social Interaction Lab. But whether to hug someone or not sometimes seems touchy.

Then, once researchers get the sewage, it needs to be evaluated. That process involves using computers to sift through enormous piles of genetic information, to separate the signal from the noise, according to Jared Auclair, who leads the genomic sequencing lab at Northeastern University. “The largest problem is the sheer amount of data,” Auclair told […]

We do this by constructing and running our own internal model, or simulation, of our lived reality. According to Lisa Feldman Barrett, professor of psychology at Northeastern University, this simulation is essentially neuronal firing based on best guesses of what is about to happen next, kind of like a bridge that forms just as you put your […]

It’s difficult to predict what the virus will do over the next few months, said Samuel Scarpino, who conducts infectious disease forecasting at Northeastern University in Boston. The variants make estimates more difficult, he said, as do the rising rate of vaccination, the relaxation of some COVID-19 public health measures, the lack of demographic information on who’s getting vaccinated and […]

GBH Morning Edition host Joe Mathieu spoke with Northeastern University law professor and GBH News legal analyst Daniel Medwed about what legal actions could still be taken against the former president.

The big three incumbents preferred to prioritise their tried and tested methods. “Companies tend to rely on their proprietary technologies because they think they can trust them — and don’t want to infringe on rivals’ intellectual property,” said Mansoor Amiji, professor of pharmaceutical sciences at Northeastern university.

“We’ve been very sluggish at getting to this next level of vaccination — individuals that are 65 plus — and I have not seen a clear explanation for why it is that we have the vaccines here and are not getting them into people’s arms efficiently,” said Samuel Scarpino, an assistant professor in the Network […]

The weather has been freezing up a statewide vaccination process that so many wish would run fluidly. Massachusetts is behind in administering vaccinations, according to a supply chain expert at Northeastern University, but the large-scale effort can help. “I think mass vaccination sites are really important because you want to maximize throughput in supply chain […]