“One of the things that’s really impressive about this moment is that people are repurposing social media as a tool for activism and for … demanding racial justice,” said Bailey, an assistant professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Northeastern University in Boston.

James Heathers, a research scientist with Northeastern University in the US, said major results in large medical journals can affect medical policies in a matter of days, both at the level of changing local hospital practice and changing governmental health policy. 

While both President Trump and Vice President Pence said that the country is “ready,” Northeastern University Political Science Professor Daniel Aldrich warns that the problem with the White House hurricane plan is confidence in the messenger.

Still, less than 10 percent of those who make an attempt will subsequently go on to complete the act, said Dr. Matthew Miller, a professor of health sciences and epidemiology at Northeastern University and an author on the study.

They often aren’t insured against riots and other man-made disasters and have little in the way of financial reserves, said Daniel Aldrich, director of the Security and Resilience Studies Program at Northeastern University. 

WGBH Morning Edition host Joe Mathieu spoke with Northeastern University law professor and WGBH News legal analyst Daniel Medwed to learn more about the criminal case against Chauvin. 

Short-term certificates “can be a positive force in people’s lives,” said Chris Gallagher, vice chancellor for global learning opportunities at Northeastern University and author of College Made Whole: Integrated Learning for a Divided World. 

 “We talk about prejudice on two different levels,” says David DeSteno, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology at Northeastern University in Boston.

Don’t Touch Your Face hosts Amy Mackinnon and James Palmer are joined by Sara Carr, an assistant professor at Northeastern University’s School of Architecture, and Richard Florida, a professor at the University of Toronto’s School of Cities and Rotman School of Management. 

“Public interest and focus have a lot to do with whether people can see themselves as a victim, whether it could have happened to them,” said James Alan Fox, a Northeastern University professor of criminology, law and public policy. “If it happens in a workplace, people think, ‘That’s not like my workplace.’”

Kay Mathiesen, an associate professor at Northeastern University who focuses on information and computer ethics, said it’s too early to say what effect the group will have. But she lauded its focus on research and development as something that can benefit governments: “We need good policy-making that is aware of the direction that these technologies […]

“The meaning we give to these masks matter,” Liz Bucar, a professor of religion at Northeastern University, told our colleague Robin Givhan about society’s sartorial shift.