“The financial and real personal injuries that are at the heart of these claims are profound and profoundly important to our society,” said Mark Gottlieb, executive director of the Public Health Advocacy Institute at Northeastern University School of Law.

Still, Costas Panagopoulos, a professor of political science at Northeastern University, thought the early voting money was well-spent.

Added Jonathan Kaufman, the director of Northeastern University’s School of Journalism: “For political reporters right now, it’s as common a tool as a notebook or a pencil.”

“The reality is that ISIS was always part of the opposition to Assad, so it is entirely unsurprising that its leader would hide out among other radicals in the opposition,” Max Abrahms, a professor of political science at Northeastern University, told Newsweek.

Wood and Papachristos’ results also highlight the huge financial impact of even modest reductions in gun violence, says criminologist Anthony Braga of Northeastern University in Boston. 

But at the 17 public and private doctoral universities, which include such heavy hitters such as MIT, Harvard, Northeastern and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, women make up only 22 percent of the presidents.

In this week’s edition of Beat The Press, Emily Rooney was joined by former NECN anchor Mike Nikitas; Farah Stockman of The New York Times; Dan Kennedy of Northeastern University; and Callie Crossley of WGBH News.

Some university presidents, such as Joseph Aoun at Northeastern University, encouraged other institutions at the 2018 New England Innovation Leadership Forum to create new ways for adults to get the credentials and skills they need in order to fuel an economy driven by artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies. 

In April, a study based on FBI crime statistics found that, after almost four decades of decline, homicides by intimate partners have increased, according to James Alan Fox, a criminologist and professor of criminal justice at Northeastern University, who is the co-author of the study together with Ph.D. student Emma E. Fridel.

Efforts by the DEA tend to ignore this cause-and-effect relationship between controlling one substance at the expense of sending folks toward another, according to Jeremiah Goulka, senior fellow at the Health in Justice Action Lab at Northeastern University Law School.

Lisa Feldman Barrett, PhD, is a University Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University, with appointments at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital in Psychiatry and Radiology. 

Max Abrahms is a professor of political science at Northeastern University and the author of Rules for Rebels: The Science of Victory in Militant History.