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 […]

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 […]