WEEK OF JUNE 19, 2023

The newsletter will be published bi-weekly until the start of the fall semester.

Gavin Shatkin, Professor of Public Policy & Architecture, and Auroop Ganguly, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, spoke with Northeastern Global News about the ambitious plan to move the Indonesian capital Jarkarta to a new location 800 miles away.

Read "Indonesia is building a new capital. Will it be a model amid climate change?"

Is the US now a four-party system? Progressives split Democrats, and far-right divides Republicans

Northeastern Global News

Nicholas Beauchamp

Associate Professor of Political Science

Costas Panagopoulos

Distinguished Professor and Chair of Political Science

DeSantis flashes youth and energy as he runs against Trump and Biden

Washington Examiner

Florida’s Nude Beaches Pose a Problem for Ron DeSantis

Newsweek

Costas Panagopoulos

Distinguished Professor and Chair of Political Science

Why diplomacy is needed now to set rules for outer space

Northeastern Global News

Mai'a Cross

Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs, Diversity and Inclusion; Dean’s Professor of Political Science, International Affairs, and Diplomacy

Why comics and graphic novels like ‘Maus’ are effective teaching tools

Northeastern Global News

Hillary Chute

Distinguished Professor of English and Art + Design

International committee moves closer to treaty on plastic pollution—and this Northeastern policy expert is helping to lead the way

Northeastern Global News

A World Without Plastic Pollution

Living on Earth

Maria Ivanova

Director of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs; Professor of Public Policy

The Real Reason Ukraine Is Only Taking Responsibility for Some Attacks on Russia

Newsweek

Max Abrahms

Associate Professor of Political Science

Bringing the social and ethical responsibilities of computing to the forefront

MIT News

John Basl

Associate Professor of Philosophy

Nearly 50 years later, Forman’s photo still in the limelight

Eagle-Tribune

Ted Landsmark

Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs

RECOGNITION AND PUBLICATIONS

Laura Kuhl, Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and International Affairs, has co-published "Locally Led Adaptation: Promise, Pitfalls, and Possibilities" in the journal Ambio.

Professor Kuhl has also co-published "Opportunities for Nature-based Solutions to Contribute to Climate-resilient Development Pathways" with Public Policy PhD student Johan Arango-Quiroga and PhD candidate Alaina Kinol in Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability.

Margaret Burnham, University Distinguished Professor of Law and Affiliate Professor of Africana Studies, will be honored by the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities as a recipient of the 2023 Governor’s Awards in the Humanities. Professor Burnham will be honored for her dedication to exploring history, illuminating truth and confronting injustice in order to protect civil and human rights locally, nationally and internationally.

The international quarterly Written Communication is now hosted at the University of Maine and Northeastern University. Mya Poe, Associate Professor of English, and Dylan Dryer, University of Maine, will serve as the new editors and publish their first issue online and in print next month. Written Communication encompasses a wide range of topics, theoretical frameworks, and rigorous methodologies, and under the editorship of Professors Poe and Dryer, the journal will remain focused on multi-disciplinary, international perspectives on writing research.

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