In March, Dr. Matthew Miller, a veteran gun violence researcher and professor of health sciences and epidemiology at Northeastern University, co-authored a study on civilians who were shot and killed by police officers between 2014 and 2015.

WGBH Morning Edition host Joe Mathieu spoke with Northeastern University law professor and WGBH News legal analyst Daniel Medwed about liability and the legal concerns surrounding reopening.

Meryl Alper, assistant professor of communication studies at Northeastern University, argues in her book “Giving Voice,” that this app creates inequality. 

The lawsuit also includes 40 declarations from a variety of institutions affected by the new rule, including the Northeastern University, the Tufts University, the University of Massachusetts, the Boston University, the Massachusetts Community Colleges, the Massachusetts State Universities, the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities in Massachusetts among others.  

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.