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GRI Faculty Affiliates Awarded NSF Grant for Designing Storm Strength Simulations to Predict and Mitigate Coastal Flooding

Qin Jim Chen and Samuel Muñoz Awarded NSF Grant for Designing Storm Strength Simulations to Predict and Mitigate Coastal Flooding

In a new grant from the National Science Foundation, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Marine and Environmental Sciences…

Standing Up College Corps CT Summer Program

College Corps CT is a government-sponsored initiative hiring college and university students to staff summer enrichment programs for K-12 youth.…

Vaccine passport

David Lazer in News@Northeastern: What Do Vaccine Passports Mean To You?

With more than 120 million U.S. residents fully vaccinated and eager to visit book stores and restaurants again, some businesses…

Abur Receives DOE Solar Energy Technology Office 2020 Award

Ali Abur Receives DOE Solar Energy Technology Office 2020 Award

GRI Faculty Affiliate and ECE Professor Ali Abur was awarded a $750K DOE grant from the Solar Energy Technologies Office for…

This Old House, Clearstory

Sara Jensen Carr on This Old House: The Post-Pandemic Home

This Clearstory episode from This Old House explores how the pandemic has changed our lives and our world, including our…

Workers wearing protective masks and food processing clothing perform quality checks at an Amy's Kitchen facility in Santa Rosa Calif., June 24, 2020.

Samuel Scarpino in ABC News: Where COVID-19 Has and Hasn’t Spread Since States Reopened: Analysis

Bars, gyms and restaurants. Those were just a few settings health experts warned could become hotbeds for COVID-19 spread as states began…

Freshman Alana Gill receives the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine at Stony Brook University

Samuel Scarpino in Forbes: Will Schools’ Requirement That Students Be Fully Vaccinated Against Covid Further Oppress Marginalized Students?

As colleges and universities break for summer, many are also preparing to welcome students back in the fall and making…

band-aid in the shape of a text bubble

David Lazer and Samuel Scarpino in Axios: Misinformation is Just One Part of a Vaccine Trust Problem

COVID-19 is the first major pandemic in the social media era — offering experts a rare opening to study the…

Blurred vaccine vials

David Lazer Featured in The Atlantic: The J&J Rescue Mission Starts With a Choice

Had Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine been the first to get the FDA’s green light, it might have been hailed…

Vaccination clinic in India

Nada Sanders Featured in News@Northeastern: The COVID-19 Crisis in India Could Cause a Global Economic Chain Reaction

The pace of vaccinations in India continues to drop as cases of COVID-19 in the country soar—a humanitarian crisis that makes the…

The health unit at the Middlesex County Jail and House of Correction.

Daniel Medwed Interview on GBH Morning Edition: How Should COVID Affect A Prisoner’s Release Or Sentence? In Mass., Courts To Weigh In

The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on vulnerable communities in Massachusetts. This week the Supreme Judicial Court will hear oral…

Jansenn vaccine vial

David Lazer Featured in News@Northeastern: After the Johnson & Johnson Pause, Enthusiasm for COVID-19 Vaccines Remains Steady, U.S. Study Shows

The Johnson & Johnson vaccine pause over blood clot concerns did not dampen enthusiasm among the unvaccinated as some feared…