Philip Thai, Associate Professor of History, and other members of the AAPI community spoke on anti-Asian bias at an event last Monday. President Aoun pledged to "look at what the university can do better."

Madhavi Venkatesan, Assistant Teaching Professor of Economics, was named Editor-in-Chief of the journal Sustainability and Climate Change.

Northeastern University’s Holocaust and Genocide Awareness Week concluded last week after exploring ongoing issues arising from targeted campaigns against Jews and other groups. News@Northeastern spoke with David Nirenberg, who gave the 28th Annual Robert Salomon Morton Lecture, and Holocaust survivor Esther Adler.

Alicia Sasser Modestino, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Economics and Director of Research in the Dukakis Center, was interviewed by The Boston Globe on the effect of vaccinations on the Massachusetts economy.

Wendy Parmet, George J. and Kathleen Waters Matthews Distinguished University Professor of Law in the School of Law, spoke with News@Northeastern on the reluctance of Hispanic immigrants to take the COVID-19 vaccine and the lingering effects of the previous administration's treatment of these immigrants.

Rod Brunson, Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. Chair of Public Life and Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice and Political Science, and Megan Denver, Assistant Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, have received a National Science Foundation grant. The research team seeks to understand exclusion and avoidance in both the immediate reentry period and long-term integration process.