There are many sources of human PFAS exposure, including through “manufacturing, wastewater treatment, sludge application to land, firefighting foam, building products, personal care products, and dietary sources,” Phil Brown, the director of the Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute at Northeastern University, told Newsweek.

“It’s hard to look at steps like these and not see an intention to make people not feel anonymous,” said Laura Edelson, a computer scientist at Boston’s Northeastern University who co-wrote a recent report on China’s online censorship system.

Pop culture experts like Steve Granelli, an associate teaching professor of communications at Northeastern University, say the surplus of gatherings around “Love Island USA” has underscored a need for “pure escapism.”

Obstetric units have been closing throughout the U.S. in recent decades, especially in rural areas, according to a needs assessment of the obstetric workforce in Maine’s rural hospitals, commissioned by MaineHealth to the Roux Institute at Northeastern University and published in January 2024.

One reason bike lanes are inconsistent is because historically they’ve been added to streets as an afterthought, said Peter Furth, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern University.

Op-ed by Sharmila Murthy, a professor of Law and Public Policy at Northeastern University who previously worked at the White House Council on Environmental Quality.  

Lisa Feldman Barrett, neuroscientist and professor of psychology at Northeastern University, is one of the world’s foremost experts on the science of emotions.

Axolotls are the gold medallists when it comes to limb regeneration. Researchers from Northeastern University have discovered not only how an axolotl starts to regenerate a limb, but also how it knows just how much of the limb needs to be regenerated – whether it is just a finger or a whole arm. The research […]

Tianshi Li at Northeastern University in Massachusetts recently looked at six leading agents, and studied those vulnerabilities. She and her team found that agents could fall prey to relatively simple tricks.

Yet there were critics even in the moment of glory. “It reveals the kind of sweeping surveillance going on,” warned David Choffnes, executive director of the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute at Northeastern University in Boston, when contacted by a reporter. 

Dr. Kayse Maass, an industrial engineer who leads the Operations Research and Social Justice Lab at Northeastern University, put it plainly: “What we often need is community care […] but we also need to design our systems and communities so people have space to live healthy lifestyles.”

But Costas Panagopoulos, a professor of political science at Northeastern University, believes Harris could still face a challenge in the governor’s race.