According to Northeastern University Professor and Independent Pharmacists Association Executive Director Todd Brown, pharmacies are required to keep a perpetual inventory of drugs with a high abuse potential and verify the count every ten days.

“He had that maniacal look that was always so striking,” said James Alan Fox, a criminology professor at Northeastern University in Boston, calling Manson the most notorious killer of all time. “Manson was memorable: his voice, his appearance, his mannerisms, as well as his crimes and the ‘crazy Charlie’ act he put on.”

“Network providers have business incentives to make their media products more desirable than their competitors, like Netflix or YouTube,” David Choffnes, an assistant professor in Northeastern’s College of Computer and Information Science, said in an university publication earlier this year. “One way to do that is to slow down or block Netflix or YouTube, making […]

“No more than 1 percent of all homicides are committed by serial killers, but on the other hand you’re talking about a very small number of guys who are responsible for a large body count,” said Jack Levin, a renowned criminologist at Northeastern University.

Research from Northeastern University has found that people who felt grateful for little, everyday things were more patient and better able to make sensible decisions, compared to those who didn’t feel very gracious on a day-to-day basis. When 105 undergraduate students were asked to choose between receiving a small amount of money immediately or a […]

Andrea Matwyshyn, a professor of law and computer science at Northeastern University, said that unless the owner or operator of a system specifically authorizes an attempt to guess a password, anyone who does so and enters that system could be charged under the CFAA. It wouldn’t matter whether the password was obtained through insider knowledge […]

As Enzo Yaksic, a map board member and the director of the Northeastern University Atypical Homicide Research Group, told me, the project “demonstrates that there’s a whole population of unapprehended killers that are clearly out there.”

There’s no question that the rise of digital technology has hollowed out traditional media, rendering the cross-ownership ban archaic in some respects. On balance, though, the ban has been good for Boston news consumers. What comes next is likely to have a lot more to do with profits than with the public interest.

In 2014, a study conducted by Northeastern University in Boston found that several major e-commerce sites such as Home Depot and Walmart were manipulating prices based on the browsing history of individual customers.

Wendy Parmet, a law professor at Northeastern University in Boston and director of the Center for Health Policy and Law there, said it’s important for lawmakers to devise a solution to bring at least DACA participants into the health care system.

As the antitrust expert John Kwoka of Northeastern University has written, 2 more generally, about remedies aimed at constraining a company’s behavior, “They are difficult to write, difficult to enforce and at the end of the day, they don’t work.”

When machines come for our jobs, we will need skills in communication, creativity, collaboration, and complex thinking to compete, says Joseph E. Aoun, president of Northeastern University. It will take a completely different kind of education system, he says — not the current one, created at the height of the farm and factory economies — […]