This year, the research team is partnering with the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Northeastern University, and the University of California at San Francisco to implement their first tests of microbiome samples to study links to Parkinson’s disease. 

Dr Heathers, a physiologist at Northeastern University in Boston, started it because he would read interesting news about research, but then be underwhelmed by the original scientific paper.

Leo Beletsky, Northeastern University professor of law and health sciences, said that legally the Philadelphia ruling has limited impact, but symbolically, “it’s very momentous and important.”

“You don’t want to be the only state that’s not getting tobacco money or opioid money or money from one of these banking settlements,” according to Wendy E. Parmet, a professor of law and public policy at Northeastern University.

A new survey by Gallup and Northeastern University found three-fourths (75 per cent) of Canadians backed the idea as a way to support people at a time when artificial intelligence is taking over over jobs held by humans.

Last week I asked my Northeastern University journalism students to identify an undercovered story and to explain their choice. Some of what they told me was predictable; some of it was surprising. Greta Thunberg’s climate activism? Of course. Gender-neutral Barbie dolls? Who knew? (And how cool is that?)

Gallup’s RJ Reinhart: “A recent survey by Gallup and Northeastern University finds a slight majority of Americans opposed to a universal basic income (UBI) program as a way to support workers displaced by AI adoption. Conversely, about three-fourths of residents in the U.K. and Canada favor the idea.”

James Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University, distinguishes between mass shootings and mass killings, which separates incidents related to gang violence from events like the attack on a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, in August that killed 22.

“People are always talking about Medicare and how to tweak it and improve access to care, but these kinds of social problems [hunger] can be just as much of an issue,” said study author Jeanne Madden, from Northeastern University in Boston.

A survey by Northeastern University and Gallup shows “a clear majority of US adults overall (61%) say employers should fund these programs. The federal government comes in second at 50%.”

Some 77% U.K. residents and 75% of Canadian residents back the idea of a universal basic income (UBI) to help workers who lose their jobs due to artificial-intelligence advancements, according to surveys published by Gallup and Northeastern University. That’s compared to just 43% of Americans.

The U.S. Supreme Court begins its new term on the first Monday of October. WGBH Morning Edition Host Joe Mathieu spoke with Northeastern University law professor and WGBH legal analyst Daniel Medwed about a few of the cases the Supreme Court intends to consider in this new term. The transcript below has been edited for […]