The FDA’s announced plans are welcome news to those like Leo Beletsky, an opioid policy researcher at Northeastern University. “The immediate endpoint for opioid use disorder treatment must be reduction in overdose and other health risks, with longer-term goal being improved patient quality of life, functioning, and overall physical and mental health,” Beletsky told Gizmodo […]

And the impact of all those cars is becoming clear, said Christo Wilson, a professor of computer science at Boston’s Northeastern University, who has looked at Uber’s practice of surge pricing during heavy volume. “The emerging consensus is that ride-sharing (is) increasing congestion,” Wilson said.

Colleges nationwide, including Northeastern University, are standing by their future students, as teenagers across the country demand stricter gun control laws in the wake of a deadly school shooting in Parkland, Fla., earlier this month.

A lack of problem-solving skills has been linked to mental health problems, such as depression and suicidality, says Amy Morin, a licensed clinical social worker, a psychotherapist and psychology professor at Northeastern University, and author of “13 Things Mentally Strong Parents Don’t Do.”

Some — like Dylann Roof, who killed nine people at a church in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015 — might channel their rage at a specific group of people, said James Alan Fox, criminologist at Northeastern University and author of “Extreme Killing: Understanding Serial and Mass Murder.” But that doesn’t mean they’re acting on a […]

Trump’s embrace of ‘scholastic carry’ is a recycled NRA talking point from 2012. And it’s still a really bad idea, says Northeastern professor James Alan Fox.

Koen Pauwels, a marketing professor at Northeastern University who studies online consumer behavior, said the key will be if advocates can sustain the energy as they take on more difficult targets. “They shouldn’t rest on their laurels and say, ‘Hey, we made sure the NRA lost a little bit of money,’ ” he said. “That’s […]

President Trump has raised mental health as a key factor in mass shootings, including a call Thursday to create more mental hospitals. But experts say there’s little connection between a person’s mental illness and the likelihood of a mass shooting. Matthew Miller is a professor of epidemiology at Northeastern University who has published several papers […]

College admissions deans in New England are telling applicants that participating in protests likely will not jeopardize their chances of being admitted. Admissions officers at Northeastern University, Smith College, Springfield College, Hampshire College, and Mount Holyoke expressed support of student protests.

Students are, for all practical purposes, quite safe at school. In the years from 1999 to 2013, homicides, bicycle accidents, firearm accidents, falls and swimming pool drownings accounted for 31,827 of the total 32,464 reported deaths, while deaths in school shootings numbered 154, or fewer than 0.5%, according to James Alan Fox, a professor of […]

“The majority institutional ownership means that Starboard can effectively ignore retail investors,” said Nicole Boyson, an associate professor of finance at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University. Boyson said Newell’s unexpected divestiture move “signals to me that they’re running scared.”

None of the five governors’ offices responded to our questions about how they plan to monitor broadband providers for net neutrality violations. Falcon says states will need hard data, and engineers to review that data, to identify throttling, discrimination, or prioritization. That’s part of the motivation behind Northeastern University’s Wehe project, which helps users check […]