In fact, some studies have shown they seem even more prone to believe misinformation about the pandemic: A September survey of more than 21,000 Americans by researchers led by a group from Northeastern University found that adults under 25 had the highest probability of believing a false claim about COVID-19. 

In an Inquirer article last year about the rising overdose toll in Philadelphia and around the country, Northeastern University professor Leo Beletsky said lockdown measures must be designed with people who use drugs in mind, making sure they can access overdose-reversal drugs, treatment, and economic and social support so they can safely stay home. He […]

Most Republican voters, in Kansas and elsewhere, either believe Trump won the election or they are not certain of the victor, polls like this one from Northeastern University suggest.

Innovation initiatives after the Covid-19 crisis, however, are likely to prioritize quality ahead of speed. First-movers enjoy less of an advantage in times of rapid change. “Gradual evolution in both technology and markets provides first movers with the best conditions for creating a dominant position that is long lasting,” point out Fernando Saurz and Gianvito Lanzolla, professors […]

And after-hours entrepreneurs can forget about raising money. “Anybody working on a business part time is not going to find growth capital,” says Karthik Krishnan, an associate professor of finance at Northeastern University. “No investor will give their money to someone they think is not committed.”

“When you get older, your tissues are much less flexible, even fragile,” says Meredith Hinds Harris, professor emeritus and former head of the physical therapy department at Northeastern University in Boston. “Without warming up and stretching, just one wrong way or quick movement, and you are likely to tear something because of your inflexibility.”

Northeastern University in Boston started administering Covid-19 vaccines Tuesday, making the school one of the first universities in the U.S. to do so.

So why can’t the world simply manufacture more doses? Lawyer Brook Baker at Northeastern University believes there’s an underlying root cause: international patents on COVID-19 vaccines. “The [vaccine] innovators hold patent rights and trade secret rights over those technologies, and they’re unwilling to share them broadly to other manufacturers. So we have artificially constricted supply,” […]

“There is so much secrecy built in here that the dark figure of crime is at this stage impossible to estimate,” said Nikos Passas, a professor of criminology and criminal justice at Northeastern University in Boston Massachusetts.

James Alan Fox, a professor of criminology at Northeastern University, said the combination of a cratering economy and cooped-up young people with even fewer opportunities provides an opening for gangs to exploit. “You have a lot of teenagers and young adults who recognize that they’re not working — no one’s hiring,” Fox said. “And what […]

Modelling Northeastern University published in September also found that, if rich countries buy up the first two billion doses of vaccine instead of distributing them in proportion to the global population, then almost twice as many people could die from Covid-19.

Barrett is a university distinguished professor of psychology at Northeastern University in Boston, where she directs the school’s Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory. She also holds appointments at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital.