The diversity gap in the patent system has “deep historical roots,” Northeastern University law professor Kara Swanson said.

Laboratory testing by Northeastern University, in Boston, found that surgical masks block out 75 per cent of respiratory-droplet-size particles, while the University of Hong Kong found that loose-fitting surgical masks block almost all contagious droplets breathed out by infectious people.

“In the 1700s and 1800s state and local officials could do all sorts of things in the name of public health, like close businesses and hold ships at port and forcibly quarantine people, that they could not otherwise do,” says Wendy Parmet, a public-health legal scholar at Northeastern University. “But by World War II those […]

Enough with the “but the flu” and “it’s getting better” and “it’s going to go away on its own” talk. There needs to be consistent communications from all levels of government about the risk the virus poses, said Alessandro Vespignani, director of the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University.

“The federal government hasn’t made it easy — though it’s tried — to access these grants and programs,” said Stephen Flynn, founding director of Northeastern University’s Global Resilience Institute, which was one of the institutions that collected data on what states need.

“It’s not an either-or: It’s the combination of under- and over-policing that occurs simultaneously that undermines police effectiveness and police legitimacy,” said Brunson, a professor at Northeastern University’s school of criminology and criminal justice, noting that “extreme calls for abolishing police altogether” would prove “dire” for people in high-crime areas.

Criminal justice expert and professor at Northeastern University Deborah Ramirez discusses why it’s difficult to hold police accountable for using excessive force and if changes will be made.

Ted Landsmark, a Northeastern University professor and a Black man who was attacked during a 1976 anti-busing demonstration in Boston gives advice to young Black Lives Matter activists today.

Deborah Ramirez, a professor of law at Northeastern University and a former federal prosecutor, told ABC News liability insurance would go a long way for cutting down taxpayer waste and improving police conduct.

Northeastern University says it will test all students, faculty, and staff for coronavirus as the school begins a phased reopening ahead of the fall semester.

Timothy J. Hoff is a professor of management, health care systems, and health policy at Northeastern University in Boston, a visiting associate fellow at the University of Oxford, and the author of “Next in Line: Lowered Care Expectations in the Age of Retail- and Value-Based Health” (Oxford University Press, 2017).

Dan Kennedy is a professor of journalism at Northeastern University and a panelist on “Beat the Press,” a weekly media program on Boston’s WGBH-TV.