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. 

But given that many people in diversion programs, such as drug-treatment court, fail and then face severe consequences, Northeastern University law and health sciences professor Leo Beletsky said, a better approach would be to not arrest people for drug use in the first place.

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).

Forthcoming research from three professors focused on digital media, identity, and social change — University of Pennsylvania professor Dr. Sarah Jackson, Northeastern University professors Dr. Moya Bailey, and Dr. Brooke Foucault Welles — can offer some advice.

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 […]

“The details emerging in the Teixeira trial are horrific and paint a picture of a couple who endured a brutal ordeal in the last moments of their lives,” Stephanie Hartung, a professor at Northeastern University School of Law who has been following the trial, told USA TODAY.

Since 2006, nearly 1,800 people have died in amass shooting in the U.S. (defined as a shooting with at least four fatalities, not including the suspect), according to the USA TODAY/Associated Press/Northeastern University mass killings database.

“Drug checking is a legal gray area,” says Northeastern University law professor Leo Beletsky. “There are provisions in Massachusetts law and the laws of pretty much every other state that might be interpreted to consider drug checking devices as ‘drug paraphernalia.’ “

But Engin Kirda, professor of computer science at Northeastern University, says it’s easy to take precautions — and unless you’re a diplomat or a CEO in a foreign country, you probably don’t need to stress out.