Leo Beletsky, a drug policy expert and law professor at Northeastern University, said he noticed opioid use reaching a crisis point in 2006. “A response has been very sluggish,” Beletsky said. “The administration has been really playing it safe in a lot of ways. …  It has been theoretically on the top of their agenda, […]

A City Hall proposal to force a 20 mph speed limit on Boston drivers is 
unlikely to slow them down, traffic engineers say. “It would be a mistake to think that lower speed limits will instantly slow people down,” said Peter Furth, a professor of civil engineering at Northeastern University. The City Council held a […]

“I think because of some of the professional incentives to get convictions and maintain convictions, and political incentives to be tough on crime, the justice role takes a back seat to the advocacy role,” says Northeastern University law professor Daniel Medwed, author of Prosecution Complex: America’s Race to Convict and Its Impact on the Innocent. […]

It’s natural to think of innovation as happening in some instantaneous transformative way, but the transition to our own future will likelier involve a great mix of evolving technologies—a transportation landscape populated with smart cars, autonomous cars and, muses Fernando Suarez, a professor at Northeastern University’s School of Business, “maybe flying cars for some longer […]

A business incubator program at Northeastern gave them $2,500 in seed money, enough to build their first prototype. This earned them the chance to seek investors at the crowdfunding website Kickstarter. The three entrepreneurs set a goal of $60,000, but $234,000 rolled in. “That’s when we knew it was an idea that had legs,” Hertig […]

But Wendy Parnet, director of Health Policy and Law at Northeastern University, said the UnitedHealth move does not necessarily mean trouble for the market. “It’s certainly important for the success of the market for there to be competition, and that takes multiple insurers,” Parnet said. “But alone, I don’t think it necessarily says anything.” She […]

A new effort to turn tiny objects into an economic 
development initiative with big impact has kicked off, centering on making commercial products with a new nanomanufacturing technique. “We look at it as a way to democratize manufacturing, it’s a new manufacturing paradigm shift,” said Ahmed Busnaina, a Northeastern University professor who will lead the […]

Other scientists dismissed the study. Matthew Nisbet, who studies climate communications at Northeastern University, said it was seriously flawed. He said looking at where people live is a not a good indicator of the weather people prefer. Nisbet and University of Oklahoma meteorology professor Renee McPherson said politics, more than weather, colors people’s perception of […]

Northeastern University has been awarded $14 million from the Commonwealth, private companies and universities to develop smart sensors for industries ranging from medical and defense to energy. Gov. Charlie Baker and his administration awarded a five-year $3 million grant to Northeastern University on Tuesday in order to establish the project, formally called the Advanced Nanomanufacturing […]

Northeastern University will create a consortium of private companies and universities to develop smart sensors and other nanomaterials, or extremely small components that are built by “nanoscale” printing processes. Northeastern President Joseph Aoun announced the plan Tuesday at the university’s Kostas Research Institute for Homeland Security on its Burlington campus. The consortium will be housed […]

The Baker administration has awarded a $3 million grant to a Northeastern University program that would focus on making tiny components for “smart” sensors and materials. The state’s investment, unveiled on Tuesday at Northeastern’s Kostas Research Institute in Burlington, would be matched by nearly $11 million in private funds from a combination of industry and […]

Of the cases studied, NECIR found none in which a prosecutor has been disbarred for professional misconduct. There have been only two public reprimands for misconduct since 1974, when the state Board of Bar Overseers was created, and those two carried no fines or other punishment. “Prosecutors have more power than anyone, in many respects, […]