Daniel Aldrich, Professor of Political Science, Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Director of the Security and Resilience Studies Program, spoke with News@Northeastern on the concepts of security and resilience at the community level.

Megan Denver, Assistant Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, received the 2021 Ruth Shonle Cavan Young Scholar Award from the American Society of Criminology.

Berna Turam, Director of the International Affairs Program and Professor of Sociology and International Affairs, was awarded a 2021-2022 Fulbright Scholarship from the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.

Philip Thai, Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies, has been named Director of the Asian Studies Program in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities.

Northeastern University was selected for the second consecutive year to serve as the statewide research partner for the Senator Charles Shannon Jr., Community Safety Initiative (Shannon CSI) Grant Program by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety and Security’s Office of Grants and Research. The project team for the grant includes Professors Megan Denver and Anthony Braga, as well as Renée Contreras, Desiree Dusseault, Eileen Kirk and Ben Struhl, who will manage grant activities.

Northeastern's Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion awarded a Faculty Innovations Grant in Diversity and Academic Excellence to Caitlin Thornbrugh, Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor in English, and Kat Gonso, Teaching Professor in English, for the proposal "Creating and Curating Knowledge: First-Generation Low-Income Student Voice and the Experiential Liberal Arts."

Ted Landsmark, Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Director of the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy, co-authored an op-ed published by The Boston Globe on possible ways to bring more green space to Boston's Franklin Park.

James Alan Fox, Lipman Family Professor of Criminology, Law, and Public Policy, spoke with News@Northeastern on a new law in Texas that will allow adults to carry handguns without a permit and background check.

Jonathan D. Fitzgerald (English PhD ’18) wrote an article in the Sunday Boston Globe Magazine, that explores the rise of the non-alcoholic craft beer market.