As schools consider virtual education, they should help parents plan for time stuck at home, said Samuel V. Scarpino, a Northeastern University assistant professor who studies epidemics. 

Voice assistants such as Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa and the Google Assistant are being falsely activated up to 19 times a day, according to researchers from Northeastern University and Imperial College London.

Leo Beletsky, professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University who studies supervised injection sites, said there are more than 200 of the facilities around the world.

Alan Schroeder is a professor in the school of journalism at Northeastern University in Boston. 

A number of innovative institutions — including the College of Healthcare Professions in Texas, the G3 initiative in Virginia’s Community Colleges and the co-op program at Northeastern University — focus on tight career alignment, regular feedback from employers and continuous iteration.

“The assumption for a long time was that facial expressions were obligatory movements,” says Lisa Feldman Barrett, a psychologist at Northeastern University in Boston who studies emotion.

Leo Beletsky, a Northeastern University professor working at the intersection of public health and criminal justice, considers the Hancock County prosecutor’s policy to be a de facto criminalization of naloxone.

Endicott College in Beverly and Northeastern University in Boston stressed they are monitoring the outbreak and communicating with students studying in Northern Italy who want to make arrangements to return home.

WGBH News’ Morning Edition host Joe Mathieu spoke with Northeastern University law professor and WGBH News legal analyst Daniel Medwed about how clemency works in Massachusetts specifically. 

“There is a massive for-profit industry that operates separate and outside of established medicine, relying on group therapy, 12-steps, counseling, etc. while eschewing best medical practices,” said Zach Siegel, a journalism fellow at Northeastern University School of Law.

Epidemiologists simply don’t have enough data to even put reasonable odds on that, says Alessandro Vespignani, an infectious disease modeler at Northeastern University. 

All too familiar anecdotes aside, researchers at Northeastern University and the Imperial College of London spent the past six months streaming 125 hours of popular Netflix TV shows to a handful of voice-activated smart speakers.