“The bizarre part of that dissent is that she seems to want to bar people from challenging discrimination and voter suppression because she thinks Congress used the wrong preposition in a statute,” said Michael Meltsner, the Matthews distinguished university professor of law at Northeastern University school of law.

By the end of the coronavirus’s “first wave” this summer, America will likely have buried close to 100,000 victims of the disease, with as many as 9 million people having become infected, according to Alessandro Vespignani, the director of the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University.

“Sibling relationships are pretty safe,” says Laurie Kramer, professor of applied psychology at Northeastern University. “You can have huge fights, wake up and they’ll be there. These relationships can often withstand really negative stuff.”

“While on the one hand, there is no question that a serious pandemic such as we are experiencing can have an enormous effect on the national security of a country, it’s really also important to understand the differences between a naturally occurring disease and, you know, an act of war,” said Wendy Parmet, director of […]

“Language is always in a state of evolution to meet the needs of its users,” said Adam Cooper, a Northeastern University linguistics professor.

“We’ve already learned what moving fast and breaking things can do to society,” said Woodrow Hartzog, a professor of law and computer science at Northeastern University, referring to the negative consequences of a tech mind-set that values speed and disruption above all else.

The Northeastern researchers found that adding the nylon layer improved the performance of a DIY mask by between 15% and 50%.

David Lazer (@davidlazer) is University Distinguished Professor at Northeastern University, visiting scholar at the Harvard University Institute for Quantitative Social Science and author, most recently, of “Politics with the People” (Cambridge University Press, 2018).

Alexander DePaoli, a marketing professor at Northeastern University, warned against overthinking when choosing to whom and how much to donate. DePaoli, who researches the effects of emotion in consumer reasoning, said you’ll get the most happiness from donating to what matters to you.

Additionally, new research suggests that COVID-19 cases were spreading rapidly in the U.S. far earlier than was reported: researchers at Northeastern University estimate that on March 1, when New York confirmed its first case of coronavirus, more than 10,000 people in the state may already have been infected. 

“In these moments of uncertainty we all suddenly feel the need to police our own behavior, but also police other people’s behavior as well,” says Northeastern University health law professor Aziza Ahmed.

“This is in line with our projections,” says Kate Coronges, director of the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University.