In New York City, Yeshiva University canceled classes on two of its campuses until March 10 after a student tested positive for the virus this week, and Northeastern University in Boston said that it would offer online classes to students on its Seattle campus.

“A link between social contagions and real biological contagions are a feature of modern outbreaks because of misinformation and fake news,” says Samuel Scarpino, a business professor of network science at Northeastern University College of Science.

Emily Spieler is the Edwin W. Hadley Professor of Law at Northeastern University. 

“The term I’ve been using is ‘metering,’” says Wendy Parmet, director of the Center for Health Policy and Law at Northeastern University. “Hopefully, if you’re slowing it down, maybe more people are sick at the other side of our knowledge curve about treatment.”

“You can’t bring criminal charges for being a bonehead or just not doing what you were told was advisable to do,” said Wendy Parmet, faculty director of the Center for Health Policy and Law at Northeastern University. 

Wendy Parmet is a law professor at Northeastern University where she heads the Center for Health Policy and Law. She spent much of her career studying the intersection of immigration and health, and fears the confluence of the new public charge rule and the potential for community transmission of the new coronavirus could produce a perfect storm […]

“These old brick row houses are incredibly beautiful and really valuable,” said Michelle Laboy, an assistant professor of architecture at Northeastern University in Boston. “And yet so many of them are threatened by the dropping groundwater table.”

Wendy E. Parmet, J.D., is professor of law and director of the Center for Health Policy and Law at Northeastern University School of Law and professor of public policy and urban affairs at Northeastern’s School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs.