“It certainly looks that way,” said Samuel Scarpino, a mathematical epidemiologist at Northeastern University, in an interview Tuesday. “And it’s consistent with the model-based forecasts that have come out of multiple groups in the Boston area, and it’s consistent with the governor’s forecast.”

James Alan Fox is the Lipman Family Professor of Criminology, Law and Public Policy at Northeastern University, a member of USA TODAY’s Board of Contributors and co-author of “Extreme Killing: Understanding Serial and Mass Murder.” 

“The question about face masks is how will they morally change us? To some extent the answer depends on our motivation for wearing them,” says Liz Bucar, a professor of religion at Northeastern University. “If you are wearing a mask to protect yourself from others, you are forming a habit of fear. Every time you […]

“Surgical masks, unlike N95 respirators, are designed to fit loosely,” says Loretta Fernandez, an environmental chemist at Northeastern University, in Boston, Massachusetts, who was one of those involved in the study. “This allows some air to go around the mask to the breathing zone rather than through the mask material.” They found that the addition […]

The Santa Clara death “was a kind of smoking gun that things actually started in January,” said Northeastern University physicist Alessandro Vespignani.

Northeastern University professor and economist Alicia Sasser Modestino says charity is a good thing for the economy as long as the money gets to people who will spend it.

“Inventories have generally been way too lean,” said Rich Weissman, a part-time teacher of supply chain management at Northeastern University, who worked in direct procurement for 25 years, and writes for the trade publication Supply Chain Dive.

Comcast and Charter, the two largest cable broadband providers in the US, kept average internet speeds fairly steady despite the surge of gaming and video, without throttling major streaming video services, according to preliminary data from researchers at Northeastern University.

Sara Jensen Carr, assistant architecture professor at Boston’s Northeastern University, said cholera and yellow fever outbreaks resulted in the building of underground wastewater systems and green spaces like New York City’s Central Park.

In 2016, researchers at Northeastern University tracked the prices of more than 16,000 of the most popular items on Amazon and collected information about the top sellers for those products, including their ratings. 

She works with a group at Northeastern University whose high-powered model is already trying to find some answers. 

“By the time they detected the tip of the iceberg, unfortunately, there were thousands of infections in several cities,” says Alessandro Vespignani, director of the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University in Boston.