In underground economies like the drug market, disruptions in the global supply chain can wreak havoc for people in addiction, said Leo Beletsky, the director of the Health in Justice Action Lab at Northeastern University.

“Think of that as about the pace of the walk to school in the morning,” says Charles Hillman, lead author of the study and associate director of the Center for Cognitive and Brain Health at Northeastern University.

Northeastern University has gone all in on in-person instruction. Long famed for promoting work experience, it is now trumpeting another specialty: an on-campus lab to process 5,000 Covid-19 tests a day.

“You have to wonder about the police departments that didn’t participate,” said Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University. “Maybe they were embarrassed about their data.”

According to a recent survey from Northeastern, Harvard, Rutgers and Northwestern, only 66 percent of people say they plan to get vaccinated once it’s available. WGBH News Morning Edition Host Joe Mathieu spoke with David Lazer, a professor of political science and computer and information science at Northeastern University, about the survey and what it could mean […]

A similar survey, conducted by researchers at Harvard University, Northeastern University, Northwestern University and Rutgers University, found 66 percent of Americans saying that would be somewhat or extremely likely to vaccinate themselves. This poll surveyed 19,058 U.S. adults from July 10 to July 26.

“I’ll admit that I’m skeptical of some of the conclusions,” said Samuel Scarpino, an epidemiologist at Northeastern University.

“You can’t expect the public to go through all the science, so you rely on people of authority, someone whom you trust, to parse that for you,” says Aleszu Bajak, a science and data journalist who teaches at Northeastern University in Boston. “But now you have more than just the scientists in their ivory tower throwing out […]

“It is going to be a long road to the White House,” said Moya Bailey, a professor in the department of cultures, societies and global studies at Northeastern University in Boston and who coined the term misogynoir, referring to the way Black women experience both sexism and racism. “I do think that the way our […]

 In it, the author and Northeastern University-based expert on network theory explains how his team has developed a dead simple formula for success.

He quotes Laura Dudley, a behavior analyst and associate clinical professor in applied psychology at Northeastern University, who explains the importance of rituals at the end of the workday, noting that “many of us are working in the same space where we are then spending time unwinding,” and any behavior that signals that shift between […]

Nada Sanders, professor of supply chain management at Northeastern University, says that without a national, authoritative body to oversee all the moving parts, every stage of the U.S. testing system, including the testing sites, the labs and the manufacturers, will continue to be overwhelmed.