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Climate change

Jennie C. Stephens Featured in The New York Times: Scientists Support an Idea Long Thought Outlandish: Reflecting the Sun’s Rays

The idea of artificially cooling the planet to blunt climate change — in effect, blocking sunlight before it can warm…

Sunrise

Jennie C. Stephens Featured in Reuters: U.S. Should Research Solar Geoengineering to Fight Climate Change but Exercise Caution, Scientists Say

The National Academies of Science on Thursday called for the United States to pursue research into solar geoengineering to cool…

Stephen Flynn Interview

Stephen E. Flynn Interview with The World: Traffic in the Suez Canal Comes to a Halt

A container ship longer than four football fields got stuck sideways in one of the narrowest parts of Egypt's Suez…

COVID-19 Dashboard

GRI Faculty Affiliate Ryan Ellis Launches COVID-19 Dashboard Study

The College of Arts, Media and Design and Communication Studies assistant professor Ryan Ellis and his colleagues were recently awarded grants from…

Daniel Aldrich Klein Lecture

Daniel P. Aldrich Featured in News@Northeastern: To Survive and Thrive after COVID-19, Community Networks are Key, Professor says in Annual Klein Lecture

When disaster strikes, it’s often not individual preparedness or government intervention that enables people to survive and thrive—it’s social connections…

Michael Kane Award

GRI Faculty Affiliate Michael Kane Awarded a $763K NSF CAREER Award for “Human-Centric Automation in the Built Environment.”

The objective of this Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) project is to enable the design of automation in the…

World Happiness Report

Daniel P. Aldrich Featured in The Washington Post: World Happiness Report is Out, with a Surprising Picture of Global Resilience

In a conclusion that even surprised its editors, the 2021 World Happiness Report found that, amid global hardship, self-reported life satisfaction across…

Mindfulness

Kristen Lee Featured in News@Northeastern: COVID-19 has been hard on our mental health. Here are some ways to keep practicing mindfulness and resilience.

After a year of disease, death, Zoom meetings, and social distancing, it can feel hard to stay positive, says Kristen Lee,…

Ted Landsmark Huntington News

Theodore C. Landsmark Featured in The Huntington News: Ted Landsmark’s Legacy is More Than a Photo

Ted Landsmark is a man of many “ands” — he is the director of the Myra Kraft Open Classroom and…

Herd immunity

Samuel Scarpino Featured in Nature: Five Reasons Why COVID Herd Immunity is Probably Impossible

As COVID-19 vaccination rates pick up around the world, people have reasonably begun to ask: how much longer will this…

Jennie C. Stephens in Forbes

Jennie C. Stephens Featured in Forbes: Does Solving The Climate Crisis Require Antiracist Feminist Leadership?

“Climate isolation” is a term coined by Jennie Stephens, Ph.D., Director of Northeastern University’s School of Public Policy & Urban Affairs,…

building resilience together

Daniel P. Aldrich Featured in Portals of Possibility: Building Resilience Together

The Covid-19 crisis has been a true test of the resiliency of our communities. It has shown the enormous gaps…