The Lewiston, Maine, mass shooting was the first test of Biden’s new gun violence prevention office As of Wednesday, there had been at least 37 mass killings in the United States in 2023, leaving at least 195 people dead, not including shooters who died, according to a database maintained by The Associated Press and USA Today in partnership with Northeastern University.
US Supreme Court’s dog toy ruling puts parody products on notice Alexandra Roberts, a law professor at Northeastern University, cited a “Chick-Fil-Hate” t-shirt as an example of a parody product that could still receive First Amendment protection because it conveys a message about Chick-fil-A and does not use “Chick-Fil-Hate” as a trademark.
Covid-Mutation Risk Drives Rush to Test Travelers From China Despite the rapid growth of cases there, China may not yet be fertile ground for variants that evade humans’ natural or vaccine-aided immunity, said Sam Scarpino, the director of Artificial Intelligence and Life Sciences at Northeastern University’s Institute for Experiential AI.
WGBH ‘It’s just a huge accomplishment’: Green Line Extension opens with fanfare, festivities, some protests The new station is a link to another one of her granddaughters, who goes to Northeastern University on the Green Line’s E branch.
As mass testing ends, how will covid waves be tracked? Not many academic papers start off as a joke. But Nick Beauchamp, of Northeastern University, in Massachusetts, was inspired by some light-hearted Twitter threads during the covid-19 pandemic.
Bloomberg Law Georgia’s Heartbeat Abortion Ban Tests FDA Limits on Pill Access “States have not been very successful in stopping this use and possession and spread of other substances that are banned,” said Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern University’s Center for Health Policy and Law. “I remain dubious that they’re going to really be able to stop the use of this.”
GBH Q+A: Should I use an expired at-home COVID test? What if I leave one in my hot car? But not so fast — make sure you check the expiration date on that kit before you use it, says Jared Auclair, director of the Biopharmaceutical Analysis Training Lab at Northeastern University, who joined GBH Morning Edition host Paris Alston to answer questions about COVID tests.
Why the Rise of Rapid Tests Makes COVID-19 Case Counts Hard to Trust In some respects, it’s surprising that so many people do get another test after getting a positive result at home. David Lazer, co-author of the COVID States Project survey and a professor of political and computer sciences at Northeastern University, says he was surprised by his group’s findings; he expected more than 30% of people […]
Who What Why Podcast Why We Should Not Take Data Breaches for Granted On this week’s WhoWhatWhy podcast we talk with Northeastern University professor of law and computer science Woodrow Hartzog, whose latest work is Breached! Why Data Security Law Fails and How to Improve It.
Mayor Wu proposes limits to protesting at private residences Courts have held that limited restrictions on the time, place, and manner of protests can be constitutional under certain circumstances, legal experts said. Restrictions on protests can be upheld in court so long as they are “ ‘content-neutral,’ e.g., not designed to suppress a particular viewpoint,” said Daniel Medwed, a professor of law at Northeastern […]
Transgender Kids Care Law Tests Arkansas Doctors’ Speech Rights “It’s usually not a problem as long as a state regulation of the professional practice tracks medical insights,” or the professional knowledge, said Claudia Haupt, an associate professor of law and political science at Northeastern University School of Law.
COVID inequity: In Africa, at-home tests are scarce, costly “Donors cannot deploy the tests until WHO say it’s OK to deploy, and countries themselves don’t want to use the tests until they get that guidance,” said Brook Baker, a professor at Northeastern University who advises the WHO and others on equitable access to COVID-19 medicines and tests.