Rashida Richardson, Assistant Professor of Law and Political Science, is featured in News@Northeastern for her appointment as senior policy advisor for data and democracy in the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy .

Nicole Aljoe, Professor of English and Africana Studies, has been appointed Visiting Professor at the University of Bristol in the UK for Fall 2021. Hosted by the Centre for Black Humanities, she will be completing research on 18th- and early 19th-century literary representations of Black people in England.

Kristina Rose (MS, SCCJ, '87) has been appointed Director of the Office for Victims of Crime by President Joe Biden. In this role, she will oversee programs and services that support crime victims and survivors.

Alicia Sasser Modestino, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Economics; Director of Research, Dukakis Center, was interviewed by Marketplace and Good Morning America on the COVID surge and its effect on working mothers.

David Lazer, University Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Computer Sciences, spoke with News@Northeastern on rates of vaccination among health care professionals.

John Kwoka, Neal F. Finnegan Distinguished Professor of Economics, appeared in The New Yorker for a recent article on a monopoly in the dairy industry.

Daniel Aldrich, Professor of Political Science, Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Director of the Security and Resilience Studies Program, was interviewed by News@Northeastern on the potential increase of COVID cases in Haiti as emergency relief from other countries arrives to assist after the recent earthquake .

Jack McDevitt, Professor of the Practice in Criminology and Criminal Justice and Director of the Institute on Race and Justice, spoke with News@Northeastern on the collection of hate crime data and misrepresentation of the data.

Serena Parekh, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Politics, Philosophy and Economics Program, and Daniel Aldrich both appear in a News@Northeastern article on the refugee crisis facing Afghanistan after the announcement of the U.S. military evacuation.

Serena Parekh was also interviewed for a New York Times article on the crisis in Afghanistan.

Rory Smead, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Ronald L. and Linda A. Rossetti Professor for the Humanities, was interviewed by News@Northeastern on societal confusion around mask usage as the COVID pandemic continues.

Timothy Hoff, Professor of Management, Healthcare Systems and Public Policy, and Patricia Illingworth, Professor of Philosophy, spoke with News@Northeastern on the state of the medical field, including increasing calls to provide different standards of treatment for unvaccinated individuals.