But David Lazer, a professor at Northeastern University and one of the survey authors, told NPR last month that more needs to be done to reduce the spread of the virus. “The good news is we’ve improved a lot in terms of mask-wearing and social distancing. The bad news is, to bend the curve they […]

Lisa Feldman Barrett is a professor of psychology at Northeastern University, Massachusetts, and author of Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain

“In general, of the many masks that we tested — and there are over 50 — the ones that seemed to provide the best fit were the ones that had elastic that went around the back of the head and the back of the neck,” Fernandez said. Still, not all masks that are secured around […]

The survey was conducted by The COVID-19 Consortium for Understanding the Public’s Policy Preferences Across States, which is a joint project of Northeastern University, Harvard University, Rutgers University, and Northwestern University.

Michael Meltsner Cambridge, Mass. The writer is a professor of constitutional law at Northeastern University.

A 2019 study from the nonprofit tech group Upturn and researchers with Northeastern University and the University of Southern California found that housing and employment ads delivered on Facebook can also skew to certain subgroups, even when targeting is not intended, raising questions about liability in the event of illegal discrimination.

GBH Morning Edition host Joe Mathieu spoke with Northeastern University law professor and GBH News legal analyst Daniel Medwed about this second trial and why the move to impeach the former president again is constitutional, despite some claims that it’s not.

The COVID States Project has been working with researchers at top colleges to conduct national surveys throughout the pandemic. That includes those at Northwestern, Northeastern, Harvard and Rutgers universities. And that tracks with some of the federal gun sale data, according to Matthew Simonson of Northeastern University, who led the research.

Northeastern University researchers sought to study these face labels in the context of racial categories and fair AI. In a paper, they argue that labels are unreliable as indicators of identity because some labels are more consistently defined than others and because datasets appear to “systematically” encode stereotypes of racial categories.

One study conducted by Northeastern University’s department of psychology found that smiling can have a negative effect on applicants in a job interview.

The effects of this inequity would be stark. Modelling by Northeastern University indicates that if the first two billion doses of Covid-19 vaccines were distributed proportionally by the national population, worldwide deaths would fall by 61%. But if the doses are monopolised by 47 of the world’s richest countries, only 33% fewer people will die.

And the killer was also probably going to get more violent and more frequent in his attacks, warned James Fox, dean of the criminal justice department at Northeastern University in Boston and author of “Overkill: Mass Murder and Serial Killings Exposed.”