“Boston is a super high-value city,” said George Thrush, a professor of architecture at Northeastern University.  “Boston, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, these are the absolute economic dynamos of the United States.” Thrush says the thriving economy is attracting new people with new priorities. “There are people from all over the world living here, there’s […]

Some experts argue that the simultaneous increase in deaths of despair — alcohol-related deaths, drug overdoses, and suicides — point to deeper problems in America. Leo Beletsky, a professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University, points to “changes in welfare policy, changes in the economy, and social isolation” as crucial to understanding why […]

Google Books and the HathiTrust can also be seen as “signature examples” of how research libraries have evolved beyond thinking of themselves as separate warehouses of knowledge, says Dan Cohen, the recently appointed university librarian at Northeastern University. He’s also vice provost for information collaboration and a professor of history there. Until recently, he was […]

The ‘not in my backyard’ sentiment is fundamentally rooted in the nation’s stigma against substance abuse, according to Northeastern University Professor of Law and Health Sciences Leo Beletsky. He predicts that safe consumption spaces must undergo the same process as marijuana legalization and reveal its effects from a couple of pioneering sites, then scale up […]

“The Sex Myth: A Devised Play,” a theatrical performance created at Northeastern University, is on its way to New York City.

Unsanctioned and unsupervised injection sites are popping up all over the nation, including in an abandoned church in Philadelphia, said Leo Beletsky, a professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University School of Law in Boston, who was not involved with the research. Plumbers frequently are summoned to fix public restroom pipes clogged with […]

We also don’t fund enough traffic signal engineers, says Peter Furth, professor of traffic engineering at Northeastern University. He says cities need one for every 50,000 people, meaning Boston should have 13 or 14, not 10. He says the small staff means the city has to spend on outside consultants to rethink intersections.

Last week a Bristol County judge sentenced Michelle Carter to two and a half years in county jail for her manslaughter conviction and granted a defense motion to delay the actual imposition of the sentence pending the resolution of her appeals. WGBH’s Morning Edition host Bob Seay spoke with WGBH Legal Analyst and Northeastern law […]

“When people are in correctional settings, it’s such an amazing opportunity to reach people who are in high need,” said Leo Beletsky, associate professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University. “People can be stabilized; people can be helped… and we’re throwing away that opportunity.”

Neale Mahoney, an associate professor of economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, says 50% is probably too high a number to attribute solely to medical debt: the equivalent of about 382,000 annual medical-related bankruptcy filings last year. He noted that a respected 2014 study by Northeastern University associate professor of law […]

Daniel Medwed, from the Northeastern University School of Law, said wrongful death suits often focused on future earnings because they were non-abstract damages that arise from death. “There’s often debate or battle over what those earnings might be, especially with teenagers. How do you speculate what earning potential is when we all evolve?” he said.

As drug-resistant infections proliferate, financial barriers are preventing the pharmaceutical industry from investing in new drugs to fight off superbugs. Economics correspondent Paul Solman, in a series of reports with science correspondent Miles O’Brien, explores how researchers, including Northeastern professor Slava Epstein, could be incentivized to develop new antibiotics.