WEEK OF JULY 31, 2023

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

Roderick Ireland, Distinguished Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, was interviewed by Shalanda Baker, Professor of Law, Public Policy and Urban Affairs, currently serving as Director of the Office of Economic Impact and Diversity at the US Department of Energy, for New York University School of Law's Oral History series.

Watch the oral history of Justice Roderick L. Ireland.

Connecticut State Police issued 26,000 fake traffic tickets over eight years, according to an audit by a Northeastern researcher

Northeastern Global News

A Trooper Issued More than 1,000 Fake Tickets. Connecticut Police Won’t Say Whether He Still Has a Job

Rolling Stone

Matthew Ross

Associate Professor of Public Policy and Economics

In Gilgo Beach Killings, an Arrest Bears Out a Decade-Old Prediction

New York Times

US on grim pace for gun violence, mass killings in 2023: ‘The bad year continues’

USA Today

Biden decries gun violence as shootings across U.S. mar Fourth of July festivities

The Guardian

James Alan Fox

Lipman Family Professor of Criminology, Law, and Public Policy

Northeastern’s Oakland campus provides summer jobs, mentorship to Bay Area high school students

Northeastern Global News

Alicia Sasser Modestino

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

Carrie Maultsby-Lute

Head of Partnerships (Mills College)

NATO rides the wave of unprecedented unity while being careful to not cross a political line with Russia

Northeastern Global News

Julie Garey

Associate Teaching Professor of Political Science

An Indian bicycle program is having a revolutionary impact on the lives of young girls

Northeastern Global News

Nishith Prakash

Professor of Public Policy and Economics

Democrats and Republicans consume very different news content on Facebook, researcher says

Northeastern Global News

David Lazer

University Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Computer Sciences

Human exceptionalism hinders environmental action, Northeastern scientists conclude

NGN Magazine

Brian Helmuth

Professor of Environmental Science and Public Policy

Economists say US just might avoid a recession after all

Boston Globe

Robert Triest

Chair and Professor of Economics

What Benjamin Franklin Learned While Fighting Counterfeiters

New York Times

Jessica Linker

Assistant Professor of History

DeSantis mixes up media strategy in hope of closing Trump gap

Washington Examiner

Costas Panagopoulos

Distinguished Professor of Political Science; Department Chair

Designating Mexican Drug Cartels as Terrorist Groups Might Be Counterproductive

Epoch Times

Max Abrahms

Associate Professor of Political Science

Biden May Have No Better Luck With Plan B on Student Loans, Experts Say

The Messenger

Daniel Urman

Director of the Law and Public Policy Minor

More Visible L.G.B.T.Q. People Isn’t a Curiosity or a Crisis — It’s Normal

New York Times

K.J. Rawson

Associate Professor of English and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies; Co-Director of NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks

RECOGNITION AND PUBLICATIONS

John Kwoka, Neal F. Finnegan Distinguished Professor of Economics; Tommaso M. Valletti, Imperial College London; and Lawrence J. White, New York University, will release "Antitrust Economics at a Time of Upheaval: Recent Competition Policy Cases on Two Continents" in August. The book provides 18 contributions from leading antitrust economists involved in recent groundbreaking merger, monopolization and anti-competitive-agreement cases on both sides of the Atlantic.

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