Other experts agree: We’re going to have to wait a while for communications to be restored to find out how many are dead. “Sadly the island is so badly damaged that there is no ability to communicate — no way to know the number of people who may have been killed in the storm itself […]

Neither the local healthcare industry nor its hospitals can afford the bad PR that might result from another nursing strike. “We’re moving into the age of hyper-competition among hospitals,” says Timothy Hoff, a professor of management, healthcare systems, and healthcare policy at Northeastern University, “and the Boston hospitals are not immune from that.”

“We’re finding more and more that in a restrictive state like Massachusetts, it’s harder to come by guns,” said Jack McDevitt, a Northeastern University criminologist. “Guns are being shared by gangs or groups of youth . . . that’s huge intelligence. You can start to put a case together.”

For most of the years of Elizabeth Bucar’s research, the fashion world barely noticed Muslim style and the style makers I studied. But now, the Northeastern professor sees pious fashion showing up on catwalks, in department stores and on non-Muslim women.

But that is a far cry from being a tool of Democrats, said Amilcar Barreto, a Puerto Rican political expert at Northeastern University. “Complaining about people on the island not having food, electricity, water is not partisan. That’s just basic human necessity.”

“Sadly, the island is so badly damaged that there is no ability to communicate—no way to know the number of people who may have been killed in the storm itself with houses coming down, debris,” Stephen E. Flynn, the founding director of the Global Resilience Institute at Northeastern University, tells Newsweek.

“It would be a major transformation,” said Barry Bluestone, a professor of public policy at Northeastern University and senior fellow at the Boston Foundation. “We’re talking about something that’s totally out of scale [from] anything we’ve ever seen.”

“The reason people so easily embrace this idea that things are bad out there … is because there is a level of discord. If we were all getting along and not distrusting our neighbor, we wouldn’t be so easily persuaded by a short-term spike in crime into thinking that the sky is falling,” says Northeastern […]

Peter Furth, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northeastern University, dissects Boston’s most dangerous intersections and shows why they are a headache for drivers.

That’s an idea that a team at Northeastern University in Boston is exploring. They’ve begun a trial in which they’re introducing terminally ill patients to chatbots—computer programs able to converse with humans.

Northeastern University professor Barry Bluestone writes an annual housing report for the Boston Foundation. He gives Walsh high marks.

This year’s milestone 40th event features a full week of programming, beginning Sunday, that includes a screening of the documentary “Chasing Trane,” a photography exhibit, a slideshow talk about Coltrane’s life and work and, on Friday, the memorial concert itself. On Saturday, the commemoration concludes with a performance at Northeastern University’s Blackman Auditorium by the […]