“More often than not, it undermines confidence in the verdict, which is enough to get a new trial,” said Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Boston’s Northeastern University.

John Wihbey, a media professor at Northeastern University who has studied Twitter, told BuzzFeed News that it is widely believed verification “generates an additional layer of trust.” Wihbey said the boost in perceived legitimacy may be waning today, (Yiannopoulos also said verification isn’t what it used to be) but the perception still lingers.

John Wihbey, associate professor of journalism and media at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, told ThinkProgress that there is no one reason driving the decisions behind the different coverage of these attacks. “There’s some xenophobia/stereotyping that is at work, and at the same time its indisputable that more planes fly into Paris and Barcelona from […]

Study after study has shown that poor communities of color are disproportionately affected by climate change, especially flooding. They’re more likely to live in floodplains and flood-prone areas and be more dependent on public infrastructure. They’re also less likely to have access to resources to deal with flooding, according to Neenah Estrella-Luna, a former law […]

“Poor adherence to CPAP remains the major impediment to effective treatment for obstructive sleep apnea,” lead study author Lichuan Ye of Northeastern University in Boston told Reuters Health.

When students first walk into the newest building at Northeastern University, they sometimes utter an audible “Wow.” The students get it right. This is a five-star piece of architecture. In an era when Boston is being swamped with buildings that are little more than boxes of leasable space, ISEC reminds you that architecture can aim […]

The upshot? The weight of evidence shows that disaster-response managers should focus less on speed, sea walls and sandbags and more on preserving people’s social ties, says Prof. Aldrich, who has studied both the Japanese and Gulf Coast catastrophes. “After Katrina, people were put on a bus and not told where they were going. When […]

The generational disparity is very clear to Prof. Suzanna Walters, director of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Northeastern University in Boston, whose research work encompasses queer identity.

Boston-based fintech startup Elsen Inc. raised $930,000 out of a $1.75 million offered, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Why it matters: Elsen, founded by three Northeastern University students, is on an interesting path for an early startup. It signed on to power Thomson Reuter’s investment analysis software back in April after having raised less […]

Even though the group that the Charlottesville suspect is alleged to have attacked seems to have included people from various demographic groups, federal prosecutors could argue that the suspect believed those people belonged to one group and targeted them because of that perception, according to Jack McDevitt, director of Northeastern University’s Institute on Race and Justice […]

Daniel Faber is director of the Northeastern University Environmental Justice Research Collaborative. He’s crunched some numbers and according to his findings,Chelsea is one of the most environmentally overburdened places in the state. “Communities that lack the political, economic power to defend themselves, where residents work longer hours, and they have less resources and are less educated, […]

Transmission persists at low but steady levels in some parts of Latin America, including Mexico, Peru, and Colombia, agrees Alessandro Vespignani, a modeler at Northeastern University in Boston who collaborates with Longini. And recorded cases are just the tip of the iceberg because 80% of infected people have no symptoms, he says. “If the number […]