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.

“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.