Robert DeLeo, University Fellow for Public Life; James Alan

Fox, Lipman Family Professor of Criminology, Law, and Public Policy; and Jack McDevitt, Professor of the Practice in Criminology and Criminal Justice and Director of the Institute on Race and Justice, spoke with News@Northeastern on the recent school shooting and the lack of political will to strengthen regulations on firearms.

Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Distinguished Professor of English and Co-Director of NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks, and Philip

Thai, Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies and Director of Asian Studies, will join the 2022-2023 cohort of Fellows at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute. Professor Maddock Dillon will work on a book that explores the forms of racialized labor, property ownership, and inheritance that shaped plantation culture in the early Caribbean and laid the groundwork for structures of gender and race that persist into the present. Professor Thai's project will present a transnational history of the Greater China economy—Communist China, Nationalist Taiwan, British Hong Kong, and Portuguese Macao—from 1945 to 1991, revealing a history overlooked by research on high diplomacy and examining the creative ways actors negotiated a tangled web of domestic strictures and international embargoes.

Dan O’Brien, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Criminology and Criminal Justice and Director of BARI; Moira Zellner, Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Director of Participatory Modeling & Data Science; Michelle Laboy, Assistant Professor of Architecture, CAMD; and Amy Mueller, Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, COE, have received the 2022 Latrobe Prize from the American Institute of Architects (AIA) College of Fellows for their research proposal, “CommonSENSES: Standards for ENacting Sensor networks for an Equitable Society.” Collaborating with the city of Chelsea, MA and local non-profits, the research team will use the grant towards demonstrating how sensor networks can inform architects, and the communities they work with, of hyperlocal variations in environmental quality.