Margaret Burnham, University Distinguished Professor of Law and Affiliate Professor of Africana Studies; Richard L. O'Bryant, Advisory Board Member, Humanities Center, Director of the John D. O'Bryant African American Institute, and Research Associate of the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy; and Jack McDevitt, Professor of the Practice in Criminology and Criminal Justice and Director of the Institute on Race and Justice, were interviewed by News@Northeastern on the guilty verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial.

Congratulations to the following CSSH graduating seniors, who have all received Senior Excellence Awards from the Honors programs!

Alicia Sasser Modestino, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Economics and Director of Research in the Dukakis Center, has received an Institutional Challenge Grant by the William T. Grant Foundation to continue her research in summer youth employment.

Rod Brunson, Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. Chair of Public Life, Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice and Political Science, and Director of Graduate Mentoring and Diversity Initiatives, has co-chaired a report for the International Society for Research and Aggression (ISRA) outlining five policy recommendations for reducing the use of inappropriate police force against minority populations

Costas Panagopoulos, Department Chair and Professor of Political Science, published an op-ed in the Washington Post based on wait times during the November 2020 presidential election. The research is based on a Tier-1 funded project “Time to Vote” with Ted Landsmark, Margaret Burnham and other NU colleagues. Professor Panagopoulos' op-ed was picked up and also featured in a story in The Root.

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, published an op-ed in The Hill arguing against the use of solar geoengineering, a controversial set of proposed technologies that could potentially cool the planet by reflecting incoming sunlight back into space.

Daniel Aldrich, Professor of Political Science, Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Director of the Security and Resilience Studies Program, was interviewed for an article on China's interest in becoming a worldwide vaccine provider in South China Morning Post.

Timothy Hoff, Professor of Management, Healthcare Systems and Public Policy, recently spoke with WAMC Northeast Public Radio about lessons learned during the pandemic and the need to prepare much more effectively for similar future events.

Ronald Sandler, Professor of Philosophy, Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion, and Director of the Ethics Institute, has published an article in Biological Conservation on the ethics of cloning in conservation.