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For most of our students, engaging in an internship in Washington, D.C. would be considered an experience in their nation’s capital and an internship in Kyoto, Japan would be considered an experience abroad. Read more……

Northeastern University has always prided itself on its positive relationship with the Boston Community and there are many opportunities for Northeastern undergraduate and graduate students to participate in activities that help Bostonians of all ages. MPA student, Charlotte Flemmings, who started her graduate studies this September, wrote the following about her experience helping tutor Boston [...]

Distinguished Professor and former Massachusetts Governor, Michael Dukakis, and his wife Kitty, were awarded the Franklin Medal for Community and Public Service by the Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology on October 14, 2011.  The recipients of the Franklin Medal are honored for their lifetime of contributions to the community, public service, education, and international relations.

Amy Sliva recently joined the Northeastern faculty as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science with a joint appointment in the College of Computer and Information Science.  Read more……

PhD Candidate, Lacey Bradley-Storey, won the 2011 Northeastern Political Science Association (NPSA) Women’s Caucus Paper Award for the Best Paper by a Woman Political Scientist.  Read more……

Professor David Lazer was awarded the The Heinz Eulau prize by the American Political Science Association (APSA) for his 2010 article, “Who Wants to Deliberate–And Why?”.  The Heinz Eulau prize is awarded annually for the best article published in the American Political Science Review. His article was co-written by Michael A. Neblo, Kevin M. Esterling, [...]

Chris Chanyasulkit (PhD Candidate) has been appointed to the American Public Health Association’s (APHA) Joint Policy Committee (JPC). Additionally, in keeping with her public health background, she is a Mentor Mom for the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center’s Parent Connection Program. Finally, Chris was appointed as co-chair of the Brookline Commission for Women.

Marian Simion (PhD Candidate) was primary author of Religion and Political Conflict: From Dialectics to Cross-Domain Charting, published by the Presses internationals Polytechnique of Montreal.  The first part of this book contains the proceedings from a lecture series on religion and conflict which was sponsored by the Permanent Mission of Romania to the United Nations, while [...]

Richard Arenberg, who has been teaching undergraduate and graduate level courses on the U.S. Congress and public policy at Northeastern for the last several years, had served as a staff-person for three separate senators over the span of more than three decades.  Read more……

Northeastern University network scientists David Lazer and Alessandro Vespignani have been awarded $1.1 million as part of a $1.8 million grant from the National Science Foundation to analyze the interdependence between complex networks in natural, social and technological systems. Read more……