Brook Baker, a law professor at Northeastern University, also said that other vaccine manufacturers may have reduced access to key ingredients. “So there is a kind of interruption to ordinary market competition that can be a result of this,“ he said. “But many people would say it’s still good public policy for the government to […]

“Our new vice president is going to change the look of power in the US. The ceiling is there, but it is breakable. I want to stress that on the big picture, she did change the entire outlook as well as the perspective of what an Asian girl from a second-generation immigrant family might be […]

Shalanda Baker, a Northeastern University law, public policy and urban affairs professor, will be deputy director of energy justice, and Jennifer Jean Kropke, who directed workforce and environmental engagement for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union 11, will direct the energy jobs office.

Research centers throughout the U.S., including those at the Mayo Clinic and Northeastern University’s Healthcare Systems Engineering, suggest challenges such as patient safety could be made better by applying systems engineering principles and techniques through more holistic and human-centered approaches to systems design.

And while energy policy may seem a long way from the fight for racial justice, Shalanda Baker argues that it’s a critical part of the discussion. “The energy system is not immune from this broader reckoning with racial and social justice,” Baker, a professor of law, public policy and urban affairs at Northeastern University, says.

Some supply chain experts, such as Nada Sanders, a professor of supply chain management at Northeastern University, have suggested Biden enlist logistics expertise from Amazon in overseeing distribution of the vaccine because of the company’s ability to manage and quickly deliver inventory.

Leo Beletsky is a professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University School of Law. 

“It certainly has a big symbolic value,” said David Lazer, a political science and computer sciences professor at Northeastern University. “The centrality of Twitter to Trump’s brand and identity has made the moment a lot more significant.”

Daniel P. Aldrich is director of the Security and Resilience Studies program and professor of political science and public policy at Northeastern University.

Starting a new graduate school months before a global pandemic struck was not great timing for the Roux Institute at Northeastern University, but over the last year it has enrolled more than 100 students and forged relationships with more than 30 corporate, academic and community partners.

GBH Morning Edition host Joe Mathieu spoke with Northeastern University law professor and GBH News legal analyst Daniel Medwed to learn more about how Biden could react to the federal death penalty and what it could mean for the Boston Marathon bombing case. 

Dr. Curtis Odom is the Managing Partner at Prescient Strategists, and an Executive Professor of Management at Northeastern University.