A recent survey led by researchers from Harvard Kennedy School, Northeastern University, and Rutgers University supports this trend as well. The study found a majority of people in the U.S. want to continue physical distancing measures, even as the federal government and some state governors are pushing to reopen the economy.

“You know Philly, there is no shortage of drugs on the street,” said Leo Beletsky, a drug policy researcher and professor at Northeastern University.Beletsky said an increase in the availability of prescription opioid drugs might even have a positive overall health effect, as it could cause people who use to switch from heroin or fentanyl, […]

“There really has never been a successful effort to share comprehensive open data sources during any of the modern epidemics,” says Samuel V. Scarpino, who runs the Emergent Epidemics Lab at Northeastern University.

Deborah Ramirez is a professor of law at Northeastern University School of Law. She works with the US House Judiciary Committee on police reform issues and issues related to racial profiling. 

“What’s certainly different is the widespread belief that we are taking a different approach, but the reality on the ground is very much different,” Leo Beletsky, professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University, told The Appeal.

“You have to communicate way more than you ever thought was necessary — it feels weird at first, but then it becomes more normal,” Barbara Larson, an executive professor of management at Northeastern University, told me. 

Early in his career as a Minneapolis police officer, Michael A. Davis, now Northeastern University’s chief of police, realized he was being dispatched to calls where he was not necessary: Petty arguments between adults; undefined suspicious behavior; loitering.

 WGBH News’ Morning Edition host Joe Mathieu spoke with Northeastern University law professor and WGBH News legal analyst Daniel Medwed about his thoughts on police chokeholds

Matthew Desmond from Princeton University, Andrew Papachristos from Northwestern University and David Kirk from the University of Oxford, have scientifically investigated the impact of this particular harrowing incident, finding that residents of Milwaukee, especially in black neighborhoods, were far less likely to report crimes after Jude’s beating was broadcast. 

Sharon Harlan, a professor of health sciences at Northeastern University in Boston, has done research on how heatwaves affect people living in different parts of a city.

James Heathers, a research scientist at Northeastern University and cohost of the Everything Hertz podcast on methodology and scientific life, said the increased speed of publication and the increased scrutiny of what’s being published means more published articles are going to come under question.

Law professor Deborah Ramirez of Northeastern University in Boston says you could do that by making personal liability insurance mandatory for police officers. Ramirez wrote a paper recently where she argues liability insurance for officers would work just as it does for drivers.