David Choffnes, a Northeastern University professor who studies privacy and cybersecurity, said internet-service providers get a unique glimpse at consumer preferences, including whether they favor pricey or less-expensive goods or read more liberal- or conservative-leaning news.

After decades of decline, fatal intimate partner abuse rose from 2015 to 2017, according to a study by James Alan Fox and Emma Fridel of Northeastern University.

The fact that he’s appearing on the first night, when the star power will be dimmer, could give Ryan more of a chance to shine, says Alan Schroeder, a professor in the school of journalism at Northeastern University and the author of Presidential Debates: Risky Business on the Campaign Trail. 

The fact that he’s appearing on the first night, when the star power will be dimmer, could give Ryan more of a chance to shine, says Alan Schroeder, a professor in the school of journalism at Northeastern University and the author of Presidential Debates: Risky Business on the Campaign Trail. 

Alicia Sasser Modestino, a professor of public policy and urban affairs at Northeastern University and one of the report’s authors, said the team found that the inverse was true, as well.

With an educated workforce and an economy driven by sectors like education and health care, if additional housing, close to transit and jobs, doesn’t materialize, “employers may have increasing difficulty filling jobs,” according to the Greater Boston Housing Report Card, an analysis put together by the Boston Foundation and researchers at Northeastern University and UMass.

The danger for the candidates is “everyone stands there and mimics each other” and no one leaps out from the pack, said Alan Schroeder, an expert on presidential debates and a professor emeritus at Northeastern University.

“I think in New England we have a long tradition of thinking that home rule is a right and not acknowledging that it can sometimes work to the detriment of the greater good,” said Sasser Modestino, associate director at Northeastern University’s Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy.

Buttigieg bucked with some progressives in April when he seemed to oppose tuition-free college while speaking to students at Northeastern University.

“Americans who have a college degree earn more than Americans who don’t,” the South Bend mayor saidat Northeastern University in April. 

The filing points to a 2014 Northeastern University study exploring the ways that companies like Home Depot and Walmart use consumer data to customize prices for different customers. 

The legislation faces uncertain prospects, in part because of language defining dark patterns and the companies that would be subject to the new law that is ambiguous, said Woodrow Hartzog, a law and computer science professor at Northeastern University.