Some researchers on mass shooting, like Northeastern University criminologist James Alan Fox, have even incorporated in their studies several types of multiple homicides that cannot be defined as mass shooting: for instance, familicide (a form of domestic violence) and gang murders.

Northeastern University terrorism expert Max Abrahms said the bloodshed could pull ISIS followers off the sidelines.

Two of the biggest concerns are whether a region that already has lots of tech companies can provide enough quality workers, and is there enough housing for them. But Northeastern University political economist Barry Bluestone, who joined WBUR’s Morning Edition, says these are challenges that can be solved.

“I really can’t recall another case where one has been used,” said James Alan Fox, a Northeastern University criminologist who studies mass shooters and believes Paddock was armed with an automatic weapon when he killed at least 59 people and set off chaos that injured more than 500.

“I just don’t know of any other case where the perpetrator used an automatic rifle,” said Jack Levin, professor emeritus at Northeastern University, who has co-authored several books on the rise in mass shootings, which he traces to the late 1960s and early 1970s.

“Wood is one of our best, most environmentally friendly resources,’’ said Peter Weiderspahn, who teaches courses in building technology at Northeastern University’s School of Architecture. “It’s the only truly renewable building material we have.” Weiderspahn notes that most wood used in the United States is produced domestically, it is lighter and thus requires less energy […]

For example, the Gun Violence Archive and Vox count any event in which four or more people were shot, but not necessarily killed, at the same general time and location. Some criminologists, such as Northeastern University professor James Alan Fox, prefer to include any shooting in which four more people are killed. Mother Jones editor […]

What is horribly normal are the dozens killed by guns every day in far less spectacular ways, writes Northeastern professor James Alan Fox.

Other experts agree: We’re going to have to wait a while for communications to be restored to find out how many are dead. “Sadly the island is so badly damaged that there is no ability to communicate — no way to know the number of people who may have been killed in the storm itself […]

Neither the local healthcare industry nor its hospitals can afford the bad PR that might result from another nursing strike. “We’re moving into the age of hyper-competition among hospitals,” says Timothy Hoff, a professor of management, healthcare systems, and healthcare policy at Northeastern University, “and the Boston hospitals are not immune from that.”

“We’re finding more and more that in a restrictive state like Massachusetts, it’s harder to come by guns,” said Jack McDevitt, a Northeastern University criminologist. “Guns are being shared by gangs or groups of youth . . . that’s huge intelligence. You can start to put a case together.”

For most of the years of Elizabeth Bucar’s research, the fashion world barely noticed Muslim style and the style makers I studied. But now, the Northeastern professor sees pious fashion showing up on catwalks, in department stores and on non-Muslim women.