When top-ranked college Northeastern University unveiled plans to open a small campus on the fifth floor of 277 Pleasant St., part of the Durfee-Union Mills complex — already home to Prima CARE medical center and Saint Anne’s Hospital outpatient services — it did so with a commitment to being an integral part of the Fall River community

Flu seasons, as a rule, differ drastically from one another, and “we don’t have a great understanding of why one ends up being more severe than another,” Samuel Scarpino, an infectious-disease-modeling researcher at Northeastern University, told me.

Jill Abramson, a former executive editor of The New York Times, teaches journalism at Northeastern University and is a contributing Globe Opinion writer.

After those years of excess, it’s understandable that many people wanted to get sober or curb their drinking, said Malcolm Purinton, a beer historian at Northeastern University. 

Jeremy Paul, a constitutional law expert at Northeastern University, said: “You cannot say this was a law enforcement operation and then turn around and say now we need to run the country.”

Researchers at Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute have returned to this long-standing mystery today. In a new article published in Nature , they demonstrate how the same mathematics used for string theory could also be used to solve the question of why neurons branch and connect the way they do.

That’s critical as researches with Northeastern University and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health conducted a national survey in 2021 and found 36% of homes with kids had unlocked firearms, while 37% had loaded ones.

Andrew Mall, a professor of music at Northeastern University in Boston, studies media, music consumption and collecting. He said record stores — and the people who work in them — are crucial to local music scenes.

But whether the president can unilaterally withdraw the US from a treaty that the Senate ratified is a legally unsettled question, says Maria Ivanova, director of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Northeastern University.

Veteran Northeastern University criminologist James Alan Fox wasn’t buying it. “I don’t know what she said [to the agent], but I don’t see the reason for pulling a gun and then, particularly, for trying to open the [car] door, which intensified and escalated the encounter,” he said.

At the heart of today’s most advanced quantum computers sits a device called a Josephson junction. “The Josephson junction is the transistor of quantum computing,” says Kin Chung Fong, an engineer at Northeastern University, Burlington.

Northeastern University Criminologist James Alan Fox told Boston 25 that he believes Neves Valente, despite what he said, like other mass killers, was motivated to set across a simple message.