Max Abrahms, a professor of political science and public policy at Northeastern University, said that for all Trump’s tough and sometimes non-sensical talk on China, Iran and North Korea, he has not started anynew wars.

The Harold Alfond Foundation recently announced an unprecedented grant of more than $500 million to higher education and research institutions in Maine, with the goal of fostering growth and opportunities for Maine’s future. We learn about the diverse ways in which the grant recipients will apply those funds, and what they see as the best […]

Gary Young, an expert in health policy at Northeastern University, said hospitals are already facing staffing shortages and extreme financial pressures from the pandemic, evidenced by hospital closures and layoffs at a time of unprecedented demand. “There are still many hospitals, particularly in rural areas, that are going to be overwhelmed,” said Young. “The preparation […]

The M.I.T.-based institute, directed by Jesse Thaler, a particle physicist, is the only one specifically devoted to physics. It includes more than two dozen scientists, from all areas of physics, from M.I.T., Harvard, Northeastern University and Tufts.

Lisa Feldman Barrett (@LFeldmanBarrett) is a professor of psychology at Northeastern University and the author of “Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain,” from which this essay is adapted.

“The consequence of longtime Gates strategies is that they go along with corporate control over supply,” said Brook Baker, a Northeastern University law professor and policy analyst for Health GAP, which advocates equitable access to drugs. “In a pandemic, that is a real problem.”

“We have every reason to be hopeful that a vaccine plus coordinated federal leadership . . . can get us to a new normal relatively quickly,” said Sam Scarpino, a Northeastern University epidemiologist. “If we do not take non-pharmaceutical interventions . . waiting on a vaccine alone will probably take a year or more. But […]

James Alan Fox, a criminologist with Northeastern University in Boston, said there are situations in which Amber Alerts are launched inappropriately and that if one was issued every time a parent wanted one to be, they could become less effective.

Lisa Feldman Barrett, a distinguished professor of psychology at Northeastern University, the chief science officer of the Center for Law, Brain & Behavior at Harvard University, and now the author of Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain, agrees. She speculates a solution on a grand scale: We need the most highly coordinated influencer campaign […]

To truly understand the brain’s inner workings, we have to rely not on our intuitions but on reports from the front lines of scientific research. Barrett, a professor of psychology at Northeastern University, has just produced a new one: “Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain,” a book published this week. In it, Barrett […]

Daniel P. Aldrich, Professor and Director of the Security and Resilience Studies Program at Northeastern University, told me he believes selfishness is part of the problem, but not worthy of all of the blame. “Many people would say that the whole society of capitalism runs on us each out there trying to make a bunch — and it […]

Ms. Brothers is an associate professor at Northeastern University and the author of “Michelangelo, Drawing, and the Invention of Architecture” (Yale).Ms. Brothers is an associate professor at Northeastern University and the author of “Michelangelo, Drawing, and the Invention of Architecture” (Yale).