President Aoun was on hand to help honor the first recipients of the newly created Senior Leadership Awards last week. CSSH students Damian Lee, Political Science and Economics '23; Breanna McClarey, Criminal Justice and Political Science '23; and Lei Nishiuwatoko, International Affairs '23, were all members of the inaugural cohort of awardees. Congratulations to all of our awardees!

Read "‘You are the benchmark,’ Northeastern President Joseph E. Aoun tells inaugural Senior Leadership Award recipients."

"I’m so glad that I did." Northeastern student on co-op learns from Serbian advocates on nonviolent resistance

Northeastern Global News

Zachary Greenwald

BS Politics, Philosophy, and Economics '24

"I wanted to go out into the field." How co-op in Cambodia taught Northeastern student to be comfortable in uncomfortable situations

Northeastern Global News

Paris Graff

BA International Affairs '25

What amount of dangerous chemicals used in fracking go unreported? More than scientists imagined

Northeastern Global News

Laura Kuhl

Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and International Affairs

Can Florida legally expand the death penalty to convicted child rapists?

Northeastern Global News

Why estate planning isn’t only for the wealthy

GBH News

Daniel Medwed

University Distinguished Professor of Law and Criminal Justice

Artificial intelligence poised to hinder, not help, access to justice

Reuters

Rashida Richardson

Assistant Professor of Law and Political Science

The startup CEO remaking City Hall

MIT Technology Review

Daniel T. O'Brien

Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Criminology and Criminal Justice; Director, Boston Area Research Initiative; Director, PhD in Public Policy Program

The flawed logic of rushing out extreme climate solutions

MIT Technology Review

Jennie Stephens

Dean's Professor of Sustainability Science and Policy

The real monster behind soaring prices

Business Insider

William Dickens

University Distinguished Professor of Economics and Public Policy

New York to ban fossil fuels in new buildings. 23 states have forbidden such bans

Stateline

Joan Fitzgerald

Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs

Past and Present: How Maus changed the way we think about comics

The Nation

Hillary Chute

Distinguished Professor of English and Art + Design

College of Social Sciences and Humanities; College of Arts, Media and Design

Feminism and Freedom in Ghana: The Ms. Q&A with Nana Akosua Hanson

Ms. Magazine

Régine Michelle Jean-Charles

Director of Africana Studies, Dean’s Professor of Culture and Social Justice, and Professor of Africana Studies and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies

RECOGNITION AND PUBLICATIONS

Katie Creel, Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Computer Science, has received the Herbert A. Simon Award for Outstanding Research in Computing and Philosophy from the International Association of Computing and Philosophy. Professor Creel also recently won the Ernest Nagel Early-Career Scholar Essay Award from the Philosophy of Science Association.

Alicia Sasser Modestino, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Economics and Research Director of the Dukakis Center, has been invited to join the IZA-Institute of Labor Economics as an IZA Research Fellow.

Qianqian Zhang-Wu, Assistant Professor of English and Director of Multilingual Writing, has published "Raising Critical Language Awareness in a Translanguaging-Infused Teacher Education Course: Opportunities and Challenges" in the Journal of Language, Identity, and Education.

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