Mayor Joe Curtatone announced Thursday that the city is partnering with Northeastern University Asst. Professor Ameet Pinto of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Stantec for the program that is designed to reveal COVID-19 hotspots up to one to two weeks earlier than current individual testing.

The initiative is a partnership between the city, the engineering firm Stantec, and a research team at Northeastern University led by Ameet Pinto, an environmental engineer and microbiologist.

Facebook will pay tens of thousands of users to quit the app ahead of the election so it can study the platform’s impact on politics

A recent nationwide survey of 19,000 US residents conducted by researchers from Harvard University, Rutgers University, Northeastern University, and Northwestern University found that the average wait time to receive COVID-19 test results was roughly four days.

Alicia Modestino of Northeastern University wrote in an article published on the EconoFact website last month that on average parents are losing a full day of work each week to address their children’s educational needs during the pandemic. About a third of the US workforce, or about 50m people, has a child under 14 at […]

 GBH Morning Edition host Joe Mathieu spoke with Northeastern University law professor and GBH News legal analyst Daniel Medwed to clarify the measures Massachusetts has in place to protect the election. 

“The child care system needs a large-scale, immediate bailout. Full stop,” says Alicia Modestino, an economist at Northeastern University.

A recent survey from Northeastern University has found that during the pandemic, working parents lose, on average, a full day of work productivity every week due to a lack of child care. 

Massachusetts stands in stark contrast to a number of other states where governors have routinely commuted the sentences of inmates as part of a national trend to reduce mass incarceration, according to Michael Meltsner, a Northeastern University Law School professor. 

“We’re looking at double shots. That’s twice the amount,” said Nada Sanders, a professor of supply chain management at Northeastern University.  “Doubling is a huge supply chain issue.”

“It’s not terribly surprising,” says Prof Paula Caliguiri of Northeastern University in Boston, US, and the author of Get a Life, Not a Job: Do What You Love and Let Your Talents Work for You. Stuck at home, unable to leave the house during those early, fear-filled months of lockdown, many people looked at the […]

In 2019, researchers at Northeastern University and the digital civil rights advocacy group Upturn ran dozens of their own ads, all targeted to the same broad audience, and found that Facebook showed the ads seeking to hire secretaries mostly to women.