WEEK OF JUNE 22, 2026

The newsletter will be published bi-weekly

until the start of the fall semester.

Zinaida Miller, Professor of Law and International Affairs, has co-authored "Dancing with Human Rights" in Harvard International Law Journal.

The World Cup is here. Is Boston ready?

Northeastern Global News

Serena Alexander

Associate Professor of Public Policy and Environmental Engineering

Stephen Flynn

Professor of Political Science; Founding Director, Global Resilience Institute and Defense Industrial Base Institute

A new way to measure the traffic impacts of development offers promise, but is not foolproof

Northeastern Global News

Study finds Highway 101 widening made Marin-Sonoma Narrows significantly hotter

Local News Matters

Serena Alexander

Associate Professor of Public Policy and Environmental Engineering

The Obama and Trump libraries are going digital. Some historians aren’t sure that’s a good idea.

Northeastern Global News

Richard Freeland

President Emeritus and Distinguished Professor of History

Martin Blatt

Professor of the Practice of Public History, Emeritus

Will the Federal Reserve cut interest rates? What to expect from Kevin Warsh’s first meeting

Northeastern Global News

William Dickens

University Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics and Public Policy

‘A deliberate crippling’: NIH researchers, Mass. scientists sound alarm over new funding rules

The Boston Globe

Briony Swire-Thompson

Assistant Professor of Political Science and Psychology

Three fathers killed their families this week as domestic violence deaths remain high

The Washington Post

James Alan Fox

Research Professor of Criminology

Platner Had Huge Advantage With Women—Will It Last?

Newsweek

Costas Panagopoulos

Distinguished Professor of Political Science

Social capital and community resilience: A conversation with Daniel Aldrich

Resilience

Daniel Aldrich

Dean's Professor of Resilience

How beer fueled the American Revolution

WBUR

Water, Barley, Hops, and … Dinosaurs?

Slate

Malcolm Purinton

Assistant Teaching Professor of History

Could youth employment programs help reduce crime?WVXU

Alicia Sasser Modestino

Associate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Economics; Director, Kitty and Michael Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy

The Real Mission of Higher Education Is Hiding in Plain Sight

Inside Higher Ed

Chris Gallagher

Professor of English

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