The number of shootings in which four or more victims are killed has spiked to 32 thus far this year, according to the Associated Press/USA TODAY/Northeastern University Mass Killing Database.

Northeastern University is opening new satellite campuses around the world and boasts a Top 40 ranking on the U.S. News & World Report list of national universities. 

Laurel Leff, associate director of the Jewish studies program and associate professor of journalism at Northeastern University, tells their story in Well Worth Saving: American Universities’ Life-and-Death Decisions on Refugees From Nazi Europe (Yale University Press).

Information Exposure From Consumer IoT Devices: A Multidimensional, Network-Informed Measurement Approach (Direct link to PDF for their full paper). In it, the researchers from Northeastern University and Imperial College London share some shocking results.

Lisa Feldman Barrett, of Northeastern University, also argues that a main purpose of the brain is to read the body, and to regulate what she calls the body budget. 

Those common musical threads make sense if you think about how music affects the brain, says Psyche Loui, associate professor of music at Northeastern University, who studies the neuroscience of music.

Michael Sinha, an adjunct professor at Northeastern University’s law school, said the disparities in their sentences demonstrate larger issues in the criminal justice system. “If these prosecutions actually served as a warning to traffickers, people would stop trafficking. Instead, what they’re actually doing is warning people who use drugs not to call 911 if they […]