Laurel Leff, Associate Professor of Journalism, Northeastern University

“It backfires because people head for the hills,” says Wendy Parmet, a professor of health law policy at Northeastern University. “People don’t call and seek health care when they might be becoming sick. And health care providers become fearful of treating patients because they don’t want to get caught up in the quarantine.”

According to a recent study by the Northeastern University School of Law’s Health in Justice Action Lab, prosecutors in almost every state have exercised the overdose-homicide option.

Indeed, the system works best when used sparingly, according to James Alan Fox, a professor of criminology, law, and public policy at Northeastern University.

But a recent study on working from anywhere, from two professors at Harvard Business School and Northeastern University and a Harvard doctoral candidate, suggests it might be something employers ought to try, as tech firms like Akamai and SAP already have.

This theory, introduced in 2006 by Lisa Feldman Barrett, a neuroscientist and psychologist at Northeastern University, argues that emotions are not just biological entities. 

Northeastern University neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett has similarly found in her work that emotions are shaped and defined by bodily sensations, past experiences, and emotional concepts from our parents and cultural upbringing. 

“The simple answer is no, your (gadget) is not likely actively listening to your conversations,” Northeastern Associate Professor of Computer and Information Science David Choffnes told me over the phone. “But that doesn’t mean they aren’t (enabling the collection of) millions of data points to know who you are, where you live, what stores you shop at, […]

A study led by a researcher from Boston’s Northeastern University—using mathematical probability models based on travel patterns and confirmed international cases—estimated the median number of infections in Wuhan at 31,200 as of Wednesday, compared with that day’s official tally of 2,261.

In January, David Roux, a co-founder of private equity firm Silver Lake Partners, donated $100 million to Northeastern University to establish a graduate school and research center in Portland, Maine with an eye toward life sciences. 

Somewhere in their genomes, “all animals have the ability,” says James Monaghan, a regeneration biologist at Northeastern University in Boston. After all, he points out, all animals grow body parts as embryos. 

Somewhere in their genomes, “all animals have the ability,” says James Monaghan, a regeneration biologist at Northeastern University in Boston.