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Celebrating Milestones
Policy School students were among the more than 700 graduates who crossed the stage at the May 10th College of Social Sciences and Humanities Celebration the day before the Fenway Park Commencement.
As we close out this academic year, we congratulate all graduates and wish everyone a great summer (the Policy Pulse will resume in September)!
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Connecting Policy and the Arts
The Policy School's commitment to integrating creativity with policy innovation took center stage at a May 28th gathering, co-hosted with the Berklee College of Music, designed to build connections between creative artists and the Policy School community. READ MORE AND SEE PHOTOS
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Promoting Green Economies from Boston to London
Prof. Joan Fitzgerald collaborated with Northeastern University London faculty to organize a workshop, conducted on the London campus, on labor market growth in Boston and London and how to facilitate the entrance of disadvantaged populations into the green economy in both cities. READ MORE
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Reimagining the Plastics Paradox
In a new interview, Policy School Director Maria Ivanova emphasized that cities, companies, and campuses must lead the shift toward sustainable alternatives and calls for reimagining our relationship with materials, waste, and shared responsibility. WATCH THE INTERVIEW
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Turning the Tide on Climate Change
Prof. Dietmar Offenhuber and his team have created a project that renders otherwise imperceptible climate impacts visible by conceiving the city of Venice itself “as a computer, as an environment that processes information.” READ MORE
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The five water cylinders that comprise Prof. Offenhuber's
physical reservoir computer. Courtesy photo from Northeastern Global News
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Making an Impact on Gender Equity, Education, and Institutional Reform
Prof. Nishith Prakash has been invited to join the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD)—one of the most prestigious networks in the field of development economics—as an Affiliate, joining a select group of scholars whose research has shaped global understanding of poverty, inequality, and economic development.
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Blending Common Sense and Environmental Justice
The Common SENSES Project and its partners recently facilitated a series of community events in Roxbury and Dorchester to co-design a network of environmental sensors as community infrastructure that will provide publicly available data on air quality, heat, and noise in the areas prioritized by participants. READ MORE
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Transforming the Youth Employment Outlook
The Community to Community Impact Engine (C2C)—which has played a key role in advocating for the expansion and improvement of Boston’s summer youth employment program—was a recipient of the National Youth Employment Coalition’s 2025 Data Champion Award. READ MORE
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Ensuring the Kids are Alright
Prof. Kimberly D. Lucas and colleagues launched the first-ever MA Early Childhood Policy Research Summit, which brought together more than 100 researchers, policymakers, practitioners, students, and funders to think about ways to support young children, families, and early educators across the Commonwealth. READ MORE
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Amy O’Leary (l) and Kim Lucas (r)
photo credit: Strategies for Children
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Digitizing Pathways to Social Justice
NULab Co-Director Moira Zellner helped organize NULab's eighth annual spring conference on the theme of “Social Justice,” which featured interdisciplinary presentations on topics including digital community archive projects, participatory modeling methods, collaborative algorithm development, and digital resources for collaboration and learning. READ MORE
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Modeling Civic Action in Boston and Beyond
Ann Walsh, Community Relations and Programs Manager at BARI, and Prof. Kimberly D. Lucas presented "Supporting Thriving Civic Research Communities: A Model from Boston + an Exploratory Conversation" at the annual URBAN Network Conference in Providence, RI.
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Getting into 'Good Trouble'
The 2025 winners of The Professor Ted Landsmark “Good Trouble” Award for the Massachusetts National History Day (NHD) Best Project in Civil Rights History are eighth-graders Adrianna Balderas and Sara Lay for their project "Plyler v. Doe: Securing the Constitutional Right to Education for Undocumented Children." READ MORE
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Blazing New Trails for Youth Activists
PhD student Olga Skaredina will lead the inaugural Youth Track, a new initiative that creates space for early-career scholars and youth activists across disciplines at the Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS) Annual Meeting in June in Nairobi. READ MORE
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Harnessing Technology to Track Shifting Narratives
Policy School PhD alumna Yutong Si '24 has published her final dissertation paper in the Policy Studies Journal as an article, titled "Aggregating Narratives on Oil and Gas from Opposing Advocacy Groups: Revealing Temporal Shifts in Narratives through Text Mining and Network Analysis." READ THE ARTICLE
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Heading Back to the Future
Congratulations to incoming Northeastern freshman Sienna Robertson, who, as a high school student, worked as a C2C intern in the Policy School in Summer 2023. She will begin her studies at the D'Amore-McKim School of Business as a Business Administration and Communication Studies major in Fall 2025.
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