Prescription drug plans often don’t cover medications that can be purchased without a prescription that some seniors depend on. “Things not included are vitamins and most over-the-counter medications,” says Becky Briesacher, an associate professor of pharmacy and health systems science at Northeastern University in Boston. “My research finds these types of medications may be burdensome to someone with […]

U.S. and U.K. officials earlier this year attributed NotPetya and a related ransomware attack called Petya to Russian actors, indicating that corporations increasingly will be drawn into warfare among nations, said Andrea Matwyshyn, a professor of law and computer science at Northeastern University.

Once online, today’s “rules for social engagement” have changed, in that “it’s OK to say almost anything to anybody at this point and call it free speech, or call it a joke,” says Lisa Feldman Barrett, University Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University, with appointments at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital.

Hemanth Gundavaram, co-director of our Immigrant Justice Clinic at Northeastern University in Boston, disagrees. He says the cost of ICE far outweighs the threat from immigrants. ICE, he says, has become a tool for President Donald Trump to “implement his racist and xenophobic” immigration policies.

Plans are underway to let Northeastern University students this fall get immediate answers to pressing questions about their enrollment status and reminders about important school tasks — all through a customized application loaded onto an Amazon Echo Dot.

Created by a team of researchers from the Barabási Lab at Northeastern University and IBM’s Visual AI Lab, WonderNet transforms databases into data sculptures, all of which take different forms based on the underlying structure of the data. 

Starting this fall, some students at Northeastern University in Boston will be given the option of getting an Echo Dot smart speaker linked to their university accounts. They’ll be able to ask Amazon’s Alexa what time their classes are, how much money’s left on their food card and even how much they owe the bursar’s […]

As a new report, Funding the News, by Matthew Nisbet and his colleagues—co-published by Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy and the School of Journalism at Northeastern University—makes clear, while nonprofit journalism is rising, commercial journalism is declining at a precipitous rate.

The report, “Funding the News,” by the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy and Northeastern University, focuses mainly on the largest flows of foundation funding for media, documenting support to public radio and national news nonprofits like ProPublica. But it also looks at funding for 25 magazines and journals over a six-year period, […]

Northeastern University will offer its students this fall the option of receiving an Echo Dot customized to handle basic questions about student life at the Boston-based school.

“Is the practice of giving out soon-to-be expired drugs ethical? The answer is clearly no,” said Leo Beletsky, an associate professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University in Boston. “People who receive medication [from a charity program] deserve the same quality as anybody else. There should be the same standards for products sold […]

In this op-ed, Liz Bucar, an associate professor of religion at Northeastern University, and author and writer Amanda Randone explain how Believers Bail Out, a Muslim-run grassroots organization, is helping raise awareness about incarceration during Ramadan.