David Lazer in The Washington Post: The Loneliest Americans Aren’t Reconnecting The COVID States Project has been probing American behavior (and attitudes) during the pandemic since March 2020. In 12 survey waves, an…
Brian Helmuth in News@Northeastern: When a Heatwave Comes, This Scientist Takes a Shellfish’s Perspective NAHANT, MASS. — Stepping into the gap between the rocks, it’s easy to understand what Brian Helmuth is talking about. The summer…
Sara Jensen Carr in News@Northeastern: Cities Don’t Spread Disease. Inequality Does. Speculation about the impact of COVID-19 on America’s thriving cities came almost as soon as the disease itself—and the diagnosis…
Holly Jimison and Misha Pavel in News@Northeastern: A Class Project Inspired This Healthcare Device to Solve a Common Drug Storage Problem It is a problem of refrigeration. Almost half of the pharmaceuticals sold in the United States are biologics that must…
Mark Patterson in News@Northeastern: This Robot is Going to Map Uncharted Kelp Forests in the Arctic—And the Impact of Climate Change The last thing Mark Patterson hears before his underwater robot embarks on a mission is a recording of his eldest child’s voice:…
Yakov Bart in News@Northeastern: Did Ben & Jerry’s Make the Right Call About the West Bank? ...Ben & Jerry’s—famous for its unique ice cream flavors as well as its outspokenness on social issues—waded into its most…
Ann Lesperance and Daniel Aldrich in News@Northeastern: How to Rebound from Disasters? Resilience Starts in the Neighborhood. The Beatles might have gotten it right. When disaster strikes, you truly do get by with a little help from…
Unproven Technology to Block Sun’s Rays Raises Practical, Ethical Concerns, Experts Say As it stands, research into solar geoengineering continues. Harvard hopes to restart its SCoPEx project by 2022, though its researchers have…
When Airbnbs Increase in a Neighborhood, So Does Crime. Here’s Why. A proliferation of Airbnbs, or similar short-term rentals, in a neighborhood contributes to higher rates of crime in the area,…
Can Democracy Come To Cuba? Impoverished, Frustrated Cubans Face An Uphill Battle One chant coming from protesters in Cuba loomed large for José Buscaglia, a global studies professor at Northeastern, as he watched coverage…
Carmen Sceppa in News@Northeastern: Bouvé Alumna Helps Bring Women-Led Food Businesses in Africa out of Kitchens and into the Big Time The idea occurred to Binja Basimike when she returned to Africa in 2020 after a dozen years in the United…
These Engineering Students Are Heading To Europe To Grow Robotics Relationships A group of robotics engineering students on Northeastern’s Boston campus is headed to Denmark later this month on a mission…
