The reporting included this quote from Alicia Modestino, an economist at Northeastern University: “The child care system needs a large-scale, immediate bailout. Full stop.”

To further prevent a surge of cases in the city, Curtatone launched a community wastewater testing program last week, in partnership with a Northeastern University professor, to monitor for the virus.

A Northeastern University study of Boston’s pilot program in 2017 found that some officers feared their conduct would be overly scrutinized and that video evidence would subject them to undue discipline.

Woodrow Hartzog is a professor of law and computer science at Northeastern University.

Alan Schroeder – Professor at Northeastern University and author of Presidential Debates: Risky Business on the Campaign Trail

For example, the U.S.’s existing “PREP” pandemic legislation shields firms from almost all injury-related lawsuits unless the cause is deemed willful misconduct (a high bar). That’s an “extraordinarily broad” view, explains Wendy Parmet, professor of law at Northeastern University. 

“This was a lifeline for them, getting that money every year,” said Daniel P. Aldrich, a professor at Northeastern University who has studied the benefits. He says Japan followed a pattern of offering more money than the rural communities that hosted the plants had ever seen while convincing residents the facilities were safe.

Mayor Joe Curtatone announced Thursday that the city is partnering with Northeastern University Asst. Professor Ameet Pinto of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Stantec for the program that is designed to reveal COVID-19 hotspots up to one to two weeks earlier than current individual testing.

The initiative is a partnership between the city, the engineering firm Stantec, and a research team at Northeastern University led by Ameet Pinto, an environmental engineer and microbiologist.

Facebook will pay tens of thousands of users to quit the app ahead of the election so it can study the platform’s impact on politics

A recent nationwide survey of 19,000 US residents conducted by researchers from Harvard University, Rutgers University, Northeastern University, and Northwestern University found that the average wait time to receive COVID-19 test results was roughly four days.

Alicia Modestino of Northeastern University wrote in an article published on the EconoFact website last month that on average parents are losing a full day of work each week to address their children’s educational needs during the pandemic. About a third of the US workforce, or about 50m people, has a child under 14 at […]