But Zhu Hongli, a mechanical engineer at Northeastern University in Boston, thinks it can be put to better use. As she and her colleagues describe in Matter this week, with a bit of tweaking bagasse makes an excellent—and biodegradable—replacement for the plastic used for disposable food containers such as coffee cups.

We know from research that working parents – a third of the US workforce – lose an average of eight hours per week due to child care responsibilities during the pandemic, per Northeastern University research.

“Programs geared specifically to individuals 50-plus are helpful because they address the unique concerns, and also strengths, of this demographic, said Kimberly A. Eddleston, a professor of entrepreneurship and innovation at Northeastern University and a senior editor on the EIX Editorial Board of the Schulze School of Entrepreneurship at the University of St. Thomas in […]

Working parents — who make up about a third of the U.S. workforce — are losing an average of eight hours per week due to child care responsibilities during the pandemic, per Northeastern University research.

GBH Morning Edition host Joe Mathieu spoke with Northeastern University law professor and GBH News legal analyst Daniel Medwed to make sense of the various lawsuits.

Even if a vaccine is approved this year, there won’t be enough available to change the course of the pandemic for months, said Samuel Scarpino, an assistant professor at Northeastern University in Boston, who directs the school’s Emergent Epidemics Lab.

The people of Tahiti, for example, have no word for “sadness”, writes Lisa Feldman Barrett, a neuroscientist at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, and author of How Emotions Are Made.

“Emotion regulation means practising something known as impulse control,” says Kris Lee, Ed.D., a professor at Northeastern University, behavioural science expert and author of Mentalligence: A New Psychology of Thinking: Learn What it Takes to be More Agile, Mindful and Connected in Today’s World.

“Churches are really a way to break down some of those barriers,” remarked Tiffany Joseph, a professor of sociology and international affairs at Northeastern University, who has done extensive research on immigrants’ access to health care.

“You look down the barrel of an entire school year of remote and hybrid learning, and you just want to give up,” said Alicia Sasser Modestino, an economist at Northeastern University. “Women are dropping out of work, up and down the income scale. We’re seeing surgeons dropping out of the labor market and epidemiologists drop […]

“Trump is sort of like the boxer, where the fight ended and he still wants to keep fighting in the parking lot,” said Dan Urman, who teaches at Northeastern University’s law school and School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs. “He’s almost forcing courts to say, ‘No.’ ”

“Whenever drug reforms were on the ballot, they won quite handily,” says Leo Beletsky, an epidemiologist and the faculty director of Northeastern University’s Health in Justice Lab. “That shows a hunger for major shifts and reforms across party lines.”