Régine Jean-Charles, Director of Africana Studies, Dean’s Professor of Culture and Social Justice, and Professor of Africana Studies and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, was profiled by The Heights on her move from Boston College to Northeastern University.

N. Fadeke Castor, Assistant Professor of Religion and Africana Studies, served as moderator for the 2021-2022 First Pages event, held on September 8. Professor Castor was in conversation with author Yaa Gyasi on Transcendent Kingdom, her novel which explores the interlocking themes of religion, science, family, and mental illness.

Moira Zellner, Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Director of Participatory Modeling and Data Science in CSSH, was appointed as an Honorary Spokesperson for the City of Buenos Aires through Boston's Voceros Program after serving in that capacity in Chicago.

Moira Zellner's co-authored article in Socio-Environmental Systems Modelling, is helping guide the National Science Foundation's funding agenda for earth systems modeling.

John Kwoka, Neal F. Finnegan Distinguished Professor of Economics, and Tommasso Valletti, former Chief Competition Economist of the European Commission, have published an article in Industrial and Corporate Change that recommends the breakups of dominant firms as a viable option.

Matthew Hunt, Professor of Sociology, has published an article on white Americans' attitudes toward reparations for slavery in Race and Social Problems.

Joan Fitzgerald, Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, published op-eds in Planetizen and The Conversation on tangible ways that local legislation can address climate change and social justice.

Madhavi Venkatesan, Assistant Teaching Professor of Economics, published an op-ed in Real Clear Policy on the adverse impact of plastics pollution.

Daniel Urman, Director of Hybrid and Online Programs in the School of Law and Director of the Law and Public Policy Minor, was interviewed by News@Northeastern on the new restrictions against abortion in Texas.

Alicia Sasser Modestino, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Economics and Director of Research in the Dukakis Center, spoke with Boston Herald on the continued effect of the pandemic on staffing needs and shortages in early education.