“There’s a lot of research that shows people take the lead from that kind of rhetoric as justification for their own acts of violence,” said Jack McDevitt, director of the Institute of Race and Justice at Northeastern University.

Hemanth Gundavaram said Northeastern University’s immigrant justice clinic was born that night. “Northeastern looked and saw how many students were passionate about what was happening and decided to set into motion the immigrant justice clinic,” he said.

Joseph Reagle is an associate professor of Communication Studies at Northeastern University.

Crighton is cosponsoring the legislation with Rep. Lori Ehrlich of Marblehead at the urging of Dan Kennedy, a Northeastern University journalism professor. 

WGBH’s Morning Edition Host Joe Mathieu spoke with Northeastern University law professor and WGBH News legal analyst Daniel Medwed about the trouble with eyewitness identification. 

“We’ve had a tremendous influx of young people,” said economist Barry Bluestone, former dean of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Northeastern University. “Good news is this keeps us vibrant. Bad news is we don’t have a housing stock for them.”

“The idea that women are primarily driven by ovarian hormones [was] a narrative put in place intentionally in the Victorian era,” says Rebecca Shansky, a neuroscientist at Northeastern University in Boston. “That has also infiltrated the way we think about female animals” in science.

Researchers from Northeastern University debunked this theory last year, but found that apps are doing something equally, if not more, creepy: recording your screen.

Meg Heckman, Assistant Professor, Northeastern University School of Journalism.

Joseph Reagle is an associate professor of communication studies at Northeastern University.

“Even just the moniker, like ‘the opioid epidemic,’ out of the gate, is problematic and incorrect,” said Leo Beletsky, an associate professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University in Boston. “This was never just about opioids.”

The researchers, from Northeastern University in Boston, consulted a pilot and security expert during their work, and all are careful to note that this kind of spoofing isn’t likely to cause a plane to crash in most cases.