WEEK OF APRIL 27, 2026

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Jazz Square Celebration: International Jazz Day Concert


Thursday, April 30

6:30 – 9:00 PM


Union Church

485 Columbus Ave.

Boston, MA


Register to attend

Celebrate International Jazz Day with the Boston Jazz Foundation, the Reckonings Project, the Claremont Neighborhood Association and Union Church. This free public concert offers an opportunity to experience live music, community, and culture. This family-friendly event features performances by Grammy-nominated saxophonist Godwin Louis and Puerto Rican saxophonist Jonathan Suazo.

NULab Spring Conference 2026


Friday, May 1

10:30 AM – 3:00 PM Boston

7:30 AM – 12:00 PM Oakland

3:30 – 8:00 PM London



Register to attend virtually

Join us for the ninth annual NULab spring conference, featuring talks by Northeastern faculty, staff, students, and collaborators about their work in computational social science and digital humanities. This year's theme is "Collective Persistence," and the conference will include a diverse set of interdisciplinary presentations on topics including digital archiving, oral history, network analysis, Indigenous language preservation, ethical applications of AI, and more.

Cassie McMillan, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminology and Criminal Justice, and Jiaao Yu '29, PhD Sociology, have co-authored the article "Network threats to causal inference: Variations in network position by participation in randomized controlled trials" in the journal Social Networks.

CSSH graduates are ready to enter ‘the world as we know it’

Northeastern Global News

Liza Sheehy '26

BA, History, Culture, and Law


Bella Wood '26

MPA


Elena Leeds '26

BA, Sociology and Political Science


Camille Fei '26

BA, Sociology and International Affairs


Kellee Tsai

Dean of the College of Social Sciences and Humanities


Janet Garvey '75

Dean's Strategy Council Member

From Donald Trump to Jacob Frey — has politics lost its profanity filter?

Northeastern Global News

Nicholas Beauchamp

Associate Professor of Political Science


Katherine Haenschen

Assistant Professor of Political Science and Communications Studies

Do the papacy and politics mix?Northeastern Global News

Elizabeth Bucar

Professor of Religion; Dean's Leadership Fellow


Sarah Riccardi-Swartz

Assistant Professor of Religion and Anthropology

This grad is headed to Indonesia to empower communities in need

Northeastern Global News

Daniel Aldrich

Dean's Professor of Resilience

Why prosecutors allege that actor Timothy Busfield groomed a community to cover up child sexual abuse

Northeastern Global News

Carlos Cuevas

Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice; Co-Director of the Violence and Justice Research Lab

Want to practice your Spanish? This Claude-powered chatbot can help

Northeastern Global News

Yanet Canavan

Principal Lecturer in Spanish

It’s hard to make people more eco-friendly. New research finds a potential solution: children

Northeastern Global News

Nishith Prakash

Professor of Public Policy and Economics

A new book explores why the wellness industry has failed spiritual seekers

Religion News Service


Your Mindfulness Practice May Be Working Against You. Here’s Why.

Forbes

Elizabeth Bucar

Professor of Religion; Dean's Leadership Fellow

Shreveport massacre shocked Americans. Why do parents kill their kids?

USA Today

Mass killings database: Every event since 2006

USA Today

James Alan Fox

Research Professor of Criminology

‘Who Will Revere the Black Woman?’ Remembering Nancy, Cerina and So Many More

Ms. Magazine

Régine Jean-Charles

Chair, Cultures, Societies, and Global Studies; Director of Africana Studies; Dean’s Professor of Culture and Social Justice; Professor of Africana Studies and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies

The Solution Belongs to Us: A Conversation with Professor Moira Zellner

NU Nexus

Moira Zellner

Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs; Co-Director of NULab for Digital Humanities and Computational Social Science

What I Learned Discussing Israel with Tucker Carlson, Steve Bannon and Marjorie Taylor Greene

POLITICO

Max Abrahms

Associate Professor of Political Science

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