Six months into battling the Covid-19 pandemic, it’s clear that the US still needs better testing. Backlogs have caused unbearably long wait times for results, and the coming flu season might further encumber test processing. But what if our coronavirus-carrying breath could be harnessed to detect Covid-19? That’s the hope of some researchers at Ohio […]

Our foundation asked modellers at Northeastern University’s Mobs Lab to consider two different scenarios. In one, approximately 50 high-income countries monopolise the first 2bn doses of vaccine. In the other, doses are distributed globally based on each country’s population, not its wealth.

“I suspect it will be litigated. And it’s not a complete slam dunk,” said Peter Enrich, a retired Northeastern University law professor, who, like other legal experts, hedged his opinion on the proposal’s constitutional viability given the lack of a judicial opinion. “It’s a legitimate question to be asking.”

In Tuesday evening’s ceremony, students were greeted by Northeastern University President Joseph A. Aoun, Gov. Janet Mills and U.S. Sen. Angus King, I-Maine.

Claudia Haupt, an associate professor of law and political science at Northeastern University, put it succinctly: “Lies are protected in public discourse.”

Jack McDevitt directs Northeastern University’s Institute on Race and Justice and consulted with the city about these recommendations. He joined WBUR’s Deborah Becker to discuss.  

A study from Christoph Riedl of Northeastern University and Anita Williams Woolley of Carnegie Mellon University, published in 2017, suggested that “bursty” communication, where people exchange ideas rapidly for a short period of time, led to better performance than constant, but less focused, communication.

“With mandatory or coerced treatment, you actually have something that’s neither ethical nor effective,” said Leo Beletsky, professor of Law and Health Sciences at Northeastern University School of Law. “The evidence certainly does not support replacing incarceration with quote unquote mandatory rehab, which in many corners of this country looks pretty much like incarceration, just under a […]

Nicole Boyson, a finance professor at Northeastern University, said most investors, outside of professional money managers, have no business shorting stocks. “Stocks can go up forever,” Ms. Boyson said.

Northeastern University started a police academy last year that requires each trainee to introduce him- or herself to a stranger every week and report back with the story of that person, and to practise peacefully resolving violent conflicts staged by actors.

Hanlon and Gwendolyn McManus, a marine biology student at Northeastern University in Boston, describe the results in the August Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology.

GBH News Morning Edition host Joe Mathieu spoke with Northeastern University law professor and GBH News legal analyst Daniel Medwed about some of the cases the court is considering.