Daniel Urman, a Northeastern University specialist on the U.S. Supreme Court, says, “Abella is Canada’s version of Sandra Day O’Connor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Thurgood Marshall: she was a pathbreaking ‘first’ in many dimensions.”

The humanities were humming along prior to 2008, according to an analysis by the Northeastern University historian Benjamin Schmidt. 

Researchers at Consumer Reports and Northeastern University tested whether Amazon’s Echo turns on without actually hearing a “wake word.” It turns out it sometimes does.

“This decision has been several years in the making, building on decades of turning a deaf ear on well-reasoned calls for change,” said Leo Beletsky, a professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University.

Northeastern University professor Dan Kennedy posted The Boston Globe management’s latest statement on negotiations with its employees represented by the Newspaper Guild, in which they warn that profits will disappear if costs to the publication aren’t kept under control.

Leo Beletsky, associate professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University in Boston, worries that the focus on these lawsuits obscure these realities, along with the deeper roots of the overdose problem that go beyond a single company or drug.

“The Taliban has a long history of working alongside Al Qaeda, but the group has tried to reassure the U.S. that it is done with Al Qaeda and will counter Islamic State. Of course, the notion that the U.S. will now delegate counterterrorism responsibilities to the Taliban is deeply ironic,” Max Abrahms, professor of political […]

Dukakis, the 1988 Democratic presidential nominee who is now a Northeastern University political science professor, said the governors should heed the message he delivered during a speech in April to Grow Smart RI in Providence.

The study, led by scientists at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), Woods Hole, and Northeastern University, is published in Global Change Biology.

Daniel Urman, a Northeastern University specialist on the U.S. Supreme Court, says, “Abella is Canada’s version of Sandra Day O’Connor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Thurgood Marshall: She was a pathbreaking ‘first’ in many dimensions.”

A recent study by Northeastern University and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst found that AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon have all artificially slowed down online videos. 

Leo Beletsky, a professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University and an expert on opioids, says it’s the latter strategy that will make a difference.