Summer 2009 News

PhD candidate Henderson Pritchard will be defending his dissertation entitled: "RACE, CLASS, AND ENVIRONMENTAL EQUITY: A STUDY OF DISPARATE EXPOSURE TO TOXIC CHEMICALS IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.". Thursday, July 23rd at 11:30 in 540 Meserve Hall.

PhD candidate Corey Denenberg Dehner will be defending her dissertation entitled: "Private Sector Involvement in Public Water Distribution: Assessing Local Water Systems in Massachusetts". Wednesday,July 1st at 11:45 in room 306 Meserve Hall (political science conf room).

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.

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.

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."

LPS Ph.D. candidate Aviva Rich-Shea was widely quoted in an article in the Providence Journal (30 May) on zero-tolerance policies in schools, the topic of her ongoing dissertation research.

Zero-tolerance policies in schools