Reminder to Students, Staff, and Faculty:

If you haven’t had a chance to complete Northeastern’s Diversity and Equity Campus Climate Survey, please take a moment to do so now. You can find it by searching your email for the subject line “Make your voice count.” It’s quick—only about 15 minutes—and the results will be used to inform Northeastern support, policies, and practices as we work together to build a more inclusive university community. The higher the participation, the more meaningful the results!

The Northeastern University International Relations Council (IRC) concluded its competitive model debate season on March 26-28. Undergraduate Akshat Dhankher (Economics '21) was elected by the National Council on US-Arab Relations to serve as the conference's Secretary-General, while three other students -- Alyssa Pascoe (PPE '21), Sabrina Zhang (Political Science and International Affairs '21), and Ilze Greever (Political Science and Computer Science '22) -- led three committees. Despite this year's conference taking place online, the twelve competing delegates were recognized as the first-place delegation for their representation of Tunisia, in addition to several individual awards. The IRC is supported by the Department of Political Science and CSSH, and is advised by Julie

Garey, Assistant Teaching Professor of Political Science.

Congratulations to incoming Sociology doctoral student Miranda Dotson. She recently received an Graduate Research Fellowship Program Award from the National Science Foundation for her project "Examining the Impacts of CBPR in Community-Led Resistance to Pollution (Gulf of Fos, France)."

Jennie Stephens, Director of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Dean's Professor of Sustainability Science and Policy, and Director of Strategic Research Collaborations in the Global Resilience Institute, is quoted in Huffington Post speaking against investments in solar geoengineering to address climate change.

Nicholas Beauchamp, Assistant Professor of Political Science, and Daniel Urman, Director of Hybrid and Online Programs in the School of Law and Director of the Law and Public Policy Minor, were interviewed by News@Northeastern on the movement to change the rules around the filibuster.

Moya Bailey, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, was interviewed by The Hollywood Reporter for a story on the emergence of sexism and racism in social media fandom.

Stephen Flynn, Professor of Political Science and Founding Director of the Global Resilience Institute, spoke with News@Northeastern on the Suez Canal crisis.

Jack McDevitt, Professor of the Practice in Criminology and Criminal Justice and Director of the Institute on Race and Justice, appeared in articles from News@Northeastern and NBC Boston discussing the advisory board for NU's police department and data on arrests across Massachusetts.

Janet Randall, Professor of English and Linguistics and Director of the Linguistics and Law Lab, has been cited as a linguistics expert in the Massachusetts Superior Court’s Model Jury Instructions. With Randall’s assistance, these plain-language instructions were designed to be legally accurate and easy for jurors to understand and for judges and practitioners to use.

Mya Poe, Associate Professor of English and Director of the Writing Program, has published an article in the Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy with Jennifer Randall and David Stomp. The article focuses on the power of everyday formative and summative classroom assessments to shape students’ perceptions of themselves and their learning, arguing for assessments that “stop doing harm” to Black students.