Aleszu Bajak and Jeff Howe Featured in Poynter: Are States Holding Back Second Doses of COVID-19 vaccines? Instead of waiting months or years to have their experimental results reviewed by peers and published in a prestigious academic…
Aleszu Bajak Hired as Senior Data Reporter for USA TODAY Aleszu Bajak is easing into a senior data reporter role on USA TODAY's data team after several years teaching and…
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…
Alicia Modestino in News@Northeastern: Northeastern University Win Competitive Federal Grant To Help Broaden Job Opportunities in Biotech Across New England Read More Northeastern University is poised to change the biotechnology and manufacturing landscape of the Northeast, with support from the…
Alicia Modestino on Fox News: The Importance of Child Care In Reopening The Economy Associate professor of economics at North Eastern University School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Alicia Modestino, weighs in on…
Alicia Sasser Modestino and Alisa Lincoln Featured in News@Northeastern: Is Child Care Funding in Biden’s Infrastructure Bill Vital to Restoring the Post-Pandemic Economy? President Biden’s expansive $2.25 trillion infrastructure plan is facing mounting pushback as critics say proposed expenditures on child and elder care just…
Alicia Sasser Modestino Awarded Grant to Continue Summer Jobs Research GRI Faculty Affiliate Alicia Sasser Modestino, associate professor in SPPUA and the Department of Economics, was awarded a three-year $649,557…
Alicia Sasser Modestino Featured in ABC News: Amid COVID-19, moms leaving the workforce could have lasting impact on economy Katie Morales tried desperately to keep working while also caring for her 7-year-old daughter amid the COVID-19 pandemic. “Friends and…
Alicia Sasser Modestino Featured in GBH News: More Employers Than Expected Have Opted Out Of The State’s New Paid Leave System. Will The Program Suffer? About three years ago, a line of people crowded behind Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker as he sat down at a…
Alicia Sasser Modestino Featured in The Boston Globe: Businesses are Coming Back to Life in Massachusetts as Vaccinated People Venture Out Spring has sprung, and the Massachusetts economy is stirring out of COVID-19 hibernation. Economists have long predicted that vaccinations would jumpstart…
Alicia Sasser Modestino Featured in The New York Times: For Women in Economics the Hostility is Out in the Open A few years ago, the economists Alicia Sasser Modestino and Justin Wolfers sat at the back of a professional conference…
Alicia Sasser Modestino Featured in The Wall Street Journal: $15-an-Hour Minimum Wage Could Further Sting Teen Employment Raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour would make it harder for many teens to get or keep jobs, adding to the…