All of which is to say that when Michael Wolff’s book “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House” was released late last week, the ground was already plowed and well-fertilized. So it’s no surprise that it became an immediate sensation. If Wolff were providing us with new information, we would need time to process it, to […]

The data used in the San Francisco study came from a group of researchers at Northeastern University in Boston who opened a series of Uber and Lyft accounts across the city and used them to track when the nearest available vehicles accepted or completed ride requests. “The Northeastern researchers collected information on vehicle locations every […]

Ed Sweda Jr., a senior attorney with Northeastern University School of Law, said the decision not to hear the appeal “is a big victory for Engle plaintiffs and their attorneys.” “This makes litigating these (potential 8,000) Engle progeny cases much easier than if the plaintiff lawyers had to re-prove these issues in each individual case.” […]

Northeastern University will name Jeff Konya its new director of athletics. Konya joins Northeastern after 3½ years at Oakland University in Michigan, where the school was the winningest program in the Horizon League over the past three seasons. He was recognized as one of Under Armour’s Athletic Directors of the Year in 2016-17 and is […]

Overall, Gary Young, director of Northeastern University Center for Health Policy and Healthcare Research, and his coauthors found spending for all types of community benefit “remained largely unchanged during the study period.” Tax-exempt hospitals’ average spending for all community benefits increased from 7.6 percent of operating expenses in 2010 to 8.1 percent in 2014, but […]

The issue has even caught the attention of the FBI. The agency recently began collecting data on crimes against animals. Northeastern Professor Emeritus, Jack Levin, wrote a book called Extreme Killing, and says he knows why the agency is interested in animal abusers. “Animal abusers are five times more likely to commit acts of human violence, murder, […]

“States that are seeing relatively little fentanyl in their supply, their overdose rates are more or less remaining flat,” said Leo Beletsky, associate professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University.

“She’s certainly a bigger celebrity than Trump ever was, especially in terms of connecting with her audience. Obviously this has given her an opportunity. What does she do next with it?” said Alan Schroeder, a journalism professor at Northeastern University in Boston who has written on the intersection of show business and politics.

“This is not easy for hospitals to do,” said Gary Young, the study’s lead author and director of the Center for Health Policy and Healthcare Research at Northeastern University in Boston. “By tradition, by the nature of their resources, hospitals have not been oriented to prevention, they’ve been oriented to treatment.”

“There have been data brokers for years but typically to get access to that data you had to sign a contract with them,” says Alan Mislove, a professor at Northeastern who worked on the project that exposed the problem. “Facebook and Google are de facto data brokers—they don’t sell data but they are making that […]

“The person that you trust might be totally trustworthy but just make a mistake by clicking on the wrong link that downloads a virus or getting hacked somehow and compromising your username and password without even meaning to,” said Woodrow Hartzog, professor of law and computer science at Northeastern University.

As Northeastern University economist Alicia Sasser Modestino puts it: “We have gone through all the easy-to-employ people, and we’re down to the hard-to-employ people.”