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, shared her reflections on living in the United States in the wake of the Haitian President's assassination in an op-ed for the Boston Globe.

Liam Monahan (SPPUA '22) won the Worcester Historical Museum's Harvey Ball 100th Birthday Celebration logo design contest. This event celebrated Harvey Ball, the designer of the iconic smiley face and a Worcester-native. Monahan was awarded a Key to the City of Worcester and became an Honorary Smile Ambassador by the Harvey Ball World Smile Foundation.

Dan O'Brien, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Criminology and Criminal Justice and Director of the Boston Area Research Initiative, spoke with News@Northeastern on new research examining the proliferation of short-term rentals in neighborhoods and their contribution to higher rates of crime in the area.

Alicia Sasser Modestino, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Economics and Dukakis Center Director of Research, published an op-ed in Project Syndicate on the gender, race, and ethnic imbalance in the field of economics.

Robert Triest, Chair and Professor of Economics, was interviewed by GBH-TV for a story on the labor shortage and its effect on the national economy.

Laurie Edwards, Teaching Professor and Online Pedagogy Coordinator in English, and Mya Poe, Associate Professor of English, have published an article in Prompt: A Journal of Academic Writing Assignments. Their article details their collaboration for the Pandemic Teaching Initiative, a library of publicly accessible educational modules created by Northeastern CSSH faculty that explore the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.

David Lazer, University Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Computer Sciences, was interviewed by News@Northeastern for an article on parental attitudes towards the COVID vaccine. Lazer also appears in a story on Gizmodo on anti-vaccine sentiments and the connection to social media.