A Year in Review:

The 10 Biggest Stories from 2022

The Policy School celebrates a year of diverse accomplishments! These 10 stories highlight the most notable and inspiring achievements from our faculty and students in 2022. 

Open Classroom

Achieving Sustainability and Environmental Resilience

Every Wednesday from 6:00-7:30pm

West Village F, Classroom 020

A longstanding tradition in the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Open Classroom is a semester-long seminar series for the Northeastern community and the general public.

Learn more here.

Submit a proposal for the 9th annual CSSH Undergraduate Research Forum



Any undergraduate who has conducted original research in CSSH independently or in collaboration with a faculty member is eligible to submit a proposal to present at the Undergraduate Research Forum on March 22. Students may present results of research conducted in collaboration with faculty or independently. Presentations may emerge from class projects, research-based co-ops, thesis projects, honors in the major projects, capstone projects, etc. Projects may be conducted by individuals or groups. Works-in-progress—that is, the sharing of preliminary results—are welcome.

Submit an abstract for the Open Science Conference in Rwanda | Submit by March 14th

In October 2023, the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) will convene the Open Science Conference in Kigali, Rwanda. 

WCRP coordinates and guides global climate research to develop, share and apply climate knowledge that contributes to societal well-being. The Open Science Conference will focus on “Advancing Climate Science for a Sustainable Future” and will be held in Kigali, Rwanda, and online on 23-27 October 2023, with the overarching goal of bridging science and society. 

Abstract submission is now open for 40 science sessions and over 40 poster clusters, bringing together a wide range of topics under three conference themes:

· Theme 1: Advances in Climate Research

· Theme 2: Human Interactions with Climate

· Theme 3: Co-produced Climate Services and Solutions

Seed Grant Competition | Apply by March 22^nd

We invite applications for research seed grants of up to $5,000 for projects that begin during summer 2023. The grants will support Northeastern faculty, post-doctoral students, or PhD students engaging in research-practice partnerships to conduct research with a city agency, state department, or community-based organization with the goal of using research evidence to change a policy or practice. The goal of the seed grant funding is to aid in the development of projects with the goal of providing proof of concept to seek additional support from either internal or external sources.

Scholars Strategy Network (SSN) Training | May 2nd

City to City has partnered with the Scholars Strategy Network to provide training for PhD students, post-docs, and faculty seeking to form research-practice partnerships with a city agency, state department, or community-based organization. The Training Researchers to Inform Policy (TRIP) workshop is a full-day training that provides PhD students, post-docs, and faculty with methods for policy engagement. This training is free to Northeastern PhD students, post-docs, and faculty alike. We encourage mentoring dyads of faculty and PhD students to attend together.

Cristina Stanica, assistant teaching professor, has been selected as the recipient of the 2023 Jeanne-Marie Col Section Leadership Award by the American Society for Public Administration, Section on International and Comparative Administration. This recognition was earned by her 2019 Gould scholarship, co-chairing the newsletter committee, and editing the section’s Occasional Paper Series in the past three years.

Daniel Aldrich

School connectedness and substance use among early adolescents with diverse maltreatment histories

Alicia Sasser Modestino

Optimizing Return and Secure Disposal of Prescription Opioids to Reduce the Diversion to Secondary Users and Black Market

Dan O'Brien

Exposure to infection when accessing groceries reveals racial and socioeconomic inequities in navigating the pandemic

Jennie C. Stephens

Climate justice in higher education: a proposed paradigm shift towards a transformative role for college and universities.