WEEK OF DECEMBER 11, 2023

Denise Garcia, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, shared insight from her new book with Northeastern Global News on the need for governance of artificial intelligence and autonomous weapons systems.

Read "Military AI: New book anticipates a world of ‘killer robots’—and the need to regulate them."

A Swiftie’s 'Wildest Dreams' come true: Northeastern is offering a course on Taylor Swift

Northeastern Global News

Another Taylor Swift course is coming to Boston, this time at Northeastern University

Boston.com

Catherine Fairfield

Postdoctoral Teaching Associate in English

2024 vote could bring electoral college distortions to the forefront

The Washington Post

Biden admission about 2024 hesitancy fuels criticism of a "delusional" campaign

The Washington Examiner

Costas Panagopoulos

Distinguished Professor and Chair of Political Science

Climate loss-and-damage funding: how to get money to where it’s needed fast

Nature

COP28 loss and damage deal both huge victory and huge compromise: expert

China Global Television Network

Laura Kuhl

Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and International Affairs

Sandra Day O’Connor, first woman to serve on the Supreme Court, remembered as 'independent thinker' who often disappointed conservatives

Northeastern Global News

Daniel Urman

Director of Hybrid and Online Programs in the School of Law; Director of the Law and Public Policy Minor

New York waived the statute of limitations for civil sex abuse suits for a year. Should other states follow suit?

Northeastern Global News

Daniel Medwed

University Distinguished Professor of Law and Criminal Justice

Texas attacks add to record-setting year for US mass shootings

Northeastern Global News

James Alan Fox

Lipman Family Professor of Criminology, Law, and Public Policy

Smaller Airlines Seek Mergers to Compete With Industry Giants

The New York Times

John Kwoka

Neal F. Finnegan Distinguished Professor of Economics

New interpretive panel in Newburyport honors city’s Black abolitionists

The Boston Globe

Kabria Baumgartner

Dean’s Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies; Associate Director of Public History

What’s the big deal about Earth getting 2°C hotter?

National Geographic

Maria Ivanova

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

Why the OpenAI drama matters in Massachusetts

WBUR

Sina Fazelpour

Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Computer Science

Teen unemployment spikes, signals potential weakness in US labor force

S&P Global

Alicia Sasser Modestino

Associate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Economics; Research Director, Dukakis Center

Generative AI and Policymaking for the New Frontier

Governmental Technology

Beth Noveck

Director, Burnes Center for Social Change

RECOGNITION AND PUBLICATIONS

Jennie Stephens, Dean's Professor of Sustainability Science and Policy, and Public Policy PhD students Alaina Kinol, Elijah Miller, and Yutong Si; Public Policy MA student Ilana Hirschfeld and Hannah Axtell (BS Environmental Science '24); and Sophie Leggett (BS Environmental Science '24) have received a Sustainability Award for Outstanding Research in Higher Education Sustainability from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE).

Vivian Underhill, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, published "The Return of Pa'ashi: Colonial Unknowing and California's Tulare Lake" in the journal Open Rivers.

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