“These kinds of experiments are done on a small scale. … They are not necessarily a reflection of the bulk material properties,” said Manjula-Basavanna, who is senior research scientist at Northeastern University in Boston. 

“We expect to find plastics at the bottom of the ocean, and at the top of the ocean. But not everywhere,” says Aron Stubbins at Northeastern University in Massachusetts.

R. Paul Singh, CEO of Startup Strategies, is a successful entrepreneur and an adjunct lecturer at Northeastern University.

“It is difficult for us to grasp just how little was understood about the world’s most out-of-the-way places” in the mid-20th century, writes Ms. Heefner, a professor of history at Northeastern University and the author of “The Missile Next Door: The Minuteman in the American Heartland” (2012). 

Nada Sanders, Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management at Northeastern University, told Newsweek: “The reality is that supply chains take time to shift and reverse course, reroute, ramp up and slow down. Impacts on supply chains and global trade take time manifest and even more time to reverse course.

Laura Lewis, distinguished university professor of chemical engineering at Northeastern University, said in February that the accessibility and amount of the minerals Ukraine might have do not seem to be of a level that would even be economically competitive with what the U.S. already has access to.

Why do so many people care? “It involves a police officer and the possibility of police misconduct or even a cover-up,” said Laurel Ahnert, an assistant teaching professor at Northeastern University who taught a class on true crime.