Richard Daynard

Senate mem­bers on Wednesday engaged in a lively dis­cus­sion, the latest in a university-​​wide effort to gather feed­back about a poten­tial smoke-​​free policy.

Pro­fessor Richard Day­nard, chair of the Senate Agenda Com­mittee, dis­cusses a new ini­tia­tive that builds on Northeastern’s unprece­dented momentum, and explains how it works and how fac­ulty can get involved.

On Wednesday, Uni­ver­sity Dis­tin­guished Pro­fessor Richard Day­nard was elected the new chair of the Senate Agenda Com­mittee at the senate’s final meeting of the aca­d­emic year.

At the second annual Aca­d­emic Honors Con­vo­ca­tion, North­eastern hon­ored its top fac­ulty, stu­dents, staff and alumni.

This summer, the U.S. Food and Drug Admin­is­tra­tion unveiled graphic new cig­a­rette warning labels that will be required to appear on pack­ages starting next year. We talked to law pro­fessor Richard Day­nard, the pres­i­dent of the School of Law’s Public Health Advo­cacy Insti­tute and chair of its Tobacco Prod­ucts Lia­bility Project, about the effec­tive­ness of warning labels and a law­suit chal­lenging the new labels’ legality.

With $2.7 mil­lion from the National Cancer Insti­tute, a North­eastern law pro­fessor will examine how man­u­fac­turers exploit the con­cept of per­sonal respon­si­bility at the expense of public health.

Inter­na­tional scholars, policy experts on obe­sity to estab­lish rec­om­men­da­tions for next Pres­i­dent to deal with nation’s No. 1 health issue Public health offi­cials, scholars, and legal experts from the United States … read more »