Boston Magazine Should the media report on health research? “Science is messy. It’s not really linear,” adds Gary Young, director of the Northeastern University Center for Health Policy and Healthcare Research. “We’re always trying to refine what we know, and hypotheses change in ways we didn’t think about in prior studies.”
The Hill House turns focus to opioid abuse Leo Beletsky, a drug policy expert and law professor at Northeastern University, said he noticed opioid use reaching a crisis point in 2006. “A response has been very sluggish,” Beletsky said. “The administration has been really playing it safe in a lot of ways. … It has been theoretically on the top of their agenda, […]
Boston Herald Experts: Boston proposal for lowering speed limit is road to nowhere A City Hall proposal to force a 20 mph speed limit on Boston drivers is unlikely to slow them down, traffic engineers say. “It would be a mistake to think that lower speed limits will instantly slow people down,” said Peter Furth, a professor of civil engineering at Northeastern University. The City Council held a […]
Could ‘actual innocence’ save the broken US justice system? “I think because of some of the professional incentives to get convictions and maintain convictions, and political incentives to be tough on crime, the justice role takes a back seat to the advocacy role,” says Northeastern University law professor Daniel Medwed, author of Prosecution Complex: America’s Race to Convict and Its Impact on the Innocent. […]
Smithsonian Magazine The future of cars is already here It’s natural to think of innovation as happening in some instantaneous transformative way, but the transition to our own future will likelier involve a great mix of evolving technologies—a transportation landscape populated with smart cars, autonomous cars and, muses Fernando Suarez, a professor at Northeastern University’s School of Business, “maybe flying cars for some longer […]
As vinyl revives, three friends make a U-Turn A business incubator program at Northeastern gave them $2,500 in seed money, enough to build their first prototype. This earned them the chance to seek investors at the crowdfunding website Kickstarter. The three entrepreneurs set a goal of $60,000, but $234,000 rolled in. “That’s when we knew it was an idea that had legs,” Hertig […]
Boston Herald Largest insurer pulls plug on states But Wendy Parnet, director of Health Policy and Law at Northeastern University, said the UnitedHealth move does not necessarily mean trouble for the market. “It’s certainly important for the success of the market for there to be competition, and that takes multiple insurers,” Parnet said. “But alone, I don’t think it necessarily says anything.” She […]
Boston Herald Northeastern University-led center to build tiny things A new effort to turn tiny objects into an economic development initiative with big impact has kicked off, centering on making commercial products with a new nanomanufacturing technique. “We look at it as a way to democratize manufacturing, it’s a new manufacturing paradigm shift,” said Ahmed Busnaina, a Northeastern University professor who will lead the […]
Study: Warming giving US type of weather we prefer – for now Other scientists dismissed the study. Matthew Nisbet, who studies climate communications at Northeastern University, said it was seriously flawed. He said looking at where people live is a not a good indicator of the weather people prefer. Nisbet and University of Oklahoma meteorology professor Renee McPherson said politics, more than weather, colors people’s perception of […]
Northeastern University gets $14M to lead development of smart sensors Northeastern University has been awarded $14 million from the Commonwealth, private companies and universities to develop smart sensors for industries ranging from medical and defense to energy. Gov. Charlie Baker and his administration awarded a five-year $3 million grant to Northeastern University on Tuesday in order to establish the project, formally called the Advanced Nanomanufacturing […]
Northeastern launches consortium to develop nanotech materials Northeastern University will create a consortium of private companies and universities to develop smart sensors and other nanomaterials, or extremely small components that are built by “nanoscale” printing processes. Northeastern President Joseph Aoun announced the plan Tuesday at the university’s Kostas Research Institute for Homeland Security on its Burlington campus. The consortium will be housed […]
Northeastern lands $3m grant for ‘nanoscale’ manufacturing The Baker administration has awarded a $3 million grant to a Northeastern University program that would focus on making tiny components for “smart” sensors and materials. The state’s investment, unveiled on Tuesday at Northeastern’s Kostas Research Institute in Burlington, would be matched by nearly $11 million in private funds from a combination of industry and […]