According to Amy Morin, a psychotherapist and professor at Northeastern University, negative phrases such as “we’ll never afford that” or “I hate my job” are toxic and can cause kids to develop a victim mentality.

“If you want to win, you have to get a significant percentage of the swing voters,” said William G. Mayer, a professor of political science at Northeastern University who has written extensively about swing voters. 

An evaluation of Boston’s program by Alicia Modestino at Northeastern University documented a similar pattern, including a 35 percent reduction in arraignments for violent crimes.

During crisis times for family businesses, “family members tend to come together and do whatever it takes to promote the family’s health and prosperity,” says Kimberly A. Eddleston, a professor of entrepreneurship and innovation at Northeastern University and a senior editor on the EIX Editorial Board.

Northeastern University also is contributing works to The Year of the Plague, which has received more than 5,600 items as of June 23. Victoria Cain, director of Graduate Studies at Northeastern’s Department of History, said submissions could help their creators find a sense of purpose during this pandemic.

In for Jim Braude, Adam Reilly joined Juliette Kayyem, a senior lecturer at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and a WGBH News and CNN contributor; and Sam Scarpino, an assistant professor at Northeastern University and the head of the university’s Emergent Epidemics Lab.

Policymakers should use summer break to make clear contingency plans that address the possibility of a new wave of infections during the fall semester, said Samuel Scarpino, an epidemiologist at Northeastern University.

Kudlow’s previous highlight as a White House official was the Feb. 25 interview in which he said the coronavirus had been “contained” in the U.S. According to Northeastern University modeling cited in a Thursday New York Times visual about the spread of the pandemic, the number of undetected cases in the country rose from about 2,000 to about 32,000 […]

 Undetected infections by Feb. 15, per estimates from a Northeastern University modeling team led by Alessandro Vespignani

Christina “Nina” Schlegel, director of the Global Center for Climate Justice at Northeastern University. 

Max Abrahms is an associate professor of Public Policy at Northeastern University and a fellow at the Quincy Institute.

On the surface, they have nothing in common. But, according to network scientist Samuel Scarpino, they’re all complex systems that spread. Sam’s job is to crack the rules underlying their spread, and then apply them to epidemics such as Covid-19.