Guests:  Megan Messerly, health reporter, Nevada Independent; Brian Labus, assistant professor, UNLV School of Public Health; Marshall Allen, health reporter, ProPublica; Samuel Scarpino, assistant professor, Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute    

13% of them lost their jobs or cut back hours due to child care challenges during the pandemic, according to a June survey conducted by Northeastern University. And even if parents can work and care for their kids at the same time, it’s impossible to be as productive. On average, a working parent loses around eight hours a week […]

… flexibility to do something like that,” said Barbara Larson, an executive professor at Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business.  

“The Republicans weren’t trying to persuade anyone or talk about any themes that anyone but their base already buys into,” Alan Schroeder, a Northeastern University professor emeritus and expert on the theatrical aspects of politics, said after the convention’s first night.

Our guests are Kathy Spiegelman, vice president and chief of campus planning and development at Northeastern, and Dr. David Hamer, professor of global health at BU’s School of Public Health and School of Medicine, and a member of the medical advisory group, which advises the university on the public health measures.  

Northeastern University threatened to expel students who, in an online survey, merely expressed plans to attend parties. Madeleine Estabrook, Northeastern’s senior vice-chancellor for student affairs, told the students that such a sentiment “is unacceptable [and] will not be tolerated”, and she demanded they renounce it in writing.

Northeastern University students will be tested for COVID-19 every three days and workers will be tested twice a week throughout the semester as part of the schools efforts to prevent outbreaks.

To handle all of those tests, Northeastern University built the Life Sciences Testing Center is on the university’s Innovation Campus in Burlington. It secured state and federal certifications earlier this month to process coronavirus samples.

“Studying the historical responses of ecosystems like coral reefs to past changes in climate provides a useful guide. But these methods only get us so far,” says Brian Helmuth, a professor of marine and environmental sciences and public policy at Northeastern University. 

At Northeastern University, the administration was alerted to an Instagram poll in which a number of incoming students indicated that they were planning to attend parties. When asked, the student running the poll voluntarily gave the administration the names of the 115 freshmen who said they would party, and each student and their parents received a […]

“You don’t get the applause at certain points. You don’t get the orchestrated signs that people were holding up,” said Costas Panagopoulos, professor of political science at Northeastern University and editor of “Rewiring Politics,” a book about modern party conventions.

“Their experiment of trying to convince rich countries to join to hedge their bets has gotten very few takers,” says Brook Baker, who studies access to medicines at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts.