News
FALL 2009
Professor James Alan Fox published an op-ed on the Ft. Hood incident in USA Today. "Fort Hood tragedy: Terror or typical workplace violence?"
LPS Director Joan Fitzgerald
LPS director Joan Fitzgerald published an op-ed in the Boston Globe on Oct. 22, “China leaving US behind in green energy.”
Professor Paul Harrington
LPS Professor Paul Harrington was named one of the nation's top 100 Irish American Educators by the Irish Voice.
Meg Bossong
Meg worked on a team that developed an evaluation plan for measuring the effect of an afternoon program for the visually impaired and blind to build life skills. Meg learned her evaluation skills from taking Laurie Dopkin's Techniques of Program Evaluation course--one we recommend to all of LPS graduate students.
Lisa Pennington
LPS Ph.D. candidate Liana Pennington gave a presentation titled "Moot Courts in the Classroom" at the Consortium for Undergraduate Law and Justice Programs Conference in Denver on May 27th. Liana also presented a poster at the Law & Society Association's Annual Meeting titled "Parent's Perceptions of Legitimacy in the Juvenile Court."
Susan Ventura
LPS alum and Northeastern assistant professor of Physical Therapy, Susan Ventura mentored a team of NU physical therapy and electrical engineering students who were among the five winners of an Assistive Technology Design Competition sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Sue also hosted the Annual Consumer Conference of the Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission (MRC) at NU this year, with the theme, An Interdependent Community: Living, Learning, and Working Together.
Professor Richard Daynard
Law and LPS Professor Richard Daynard received a $2.7 million, 5-year grant from the National Cancer Institute to support his research on how the tobacco, fast-food and sweetened-beverage industries use the concept of personal responsibility and choice to influence courts, legislatures, regulatory agencies and public opinion and the resulting effect on public health.
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