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  • New book “My Teaching Routine” from professor Mark Martin

    Mark Martin, assistant professor in computer science and education practice at Northeastern University London, has published a new book called My Teaching Routine. “This book encourages you to reflect on your teaching style,” the publishing copy reads, “and challenges you to understand when things are going well, when things need change and when they need to be dropped.” A book launch was held on March 15, 2023, over Zoom.

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  • Dahiya publishes “Sensory Systems for Robotic Applications”

    From the College of Engineering: Electrical and computer engineering professor Ravinder Dahiya has published a book on Sensory Systems for Robotic Applications. Read more about the book, and find its abstract, at the College of Engineering below.

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  • ‘First and Foremost’: A literary journal from the first-generation, undocumented and low-income community at Northeastern

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    From the College of Social Sciences and Humanities: “‘First and Foremost’ is a journal of writing and art created and published by the first-gen, undocumented, and low-income community at Northeastern. The journal is advised by Caitlin Thornbrugh, associate teaching professor in English and director of the Writing Minor, and Kat Gonso, teaching professor in English and director of the Writing Center.  “Students who identify as part of the first-generation, low-income, and/or undocumented community are invited and encouraged to submit creative pieces.”

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  • Popular culture poses a challenge to the “failing theories” of neoclassical economics

    Thomas Strychacz, Professor of English at Mills College and in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities, has published a new book, “Popular Culture and Political Economic Thought: Fables of Commonwealth.” From the publisher’s website, this project “examines a variety of animated movies, TV shows, written fictions, adventure travelogues, and Paleo archeologies (and diets) to suggest that popular culture poses a multiform challenge to the failing theories and practices of neoclassical economics.” Find “Popular Culture and Political Economic Thought” at Lexington Books below.

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  • Using computer science to tell stories ‘that make a difference’

    In “Code for What?: Computer Science for Storytelling and Social Justice,” Clifford Lee and co-author Elisabeth Soep ask, “What if coding were a justice-driven medium for storytelling rather than a narrow technical skill?” The authors show why computer coding can be more than a career-motivated pursuit, but can also be used for the social good. “Code for What?” tells the “stories of a diverse group of young people in Oakland, California, who combine journalism, data, design, and code to create media that makes a difference.”

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  • Book chapter, ‘Socially Responsible Consumption and Marketing in Practice’

    The chapter’s abstract begins: “Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter offer both unique and overlapping opportunities to connect with people. The use of images and visual content reduces language barriers, while ease of access to these media applications increases routine engagement. This chapter provides a brief historical overview of social media, specifically addressing how social media has been used for advertising and information dissemination.” Find “Socially Responsible Consumption and Marketing in Practice,” which appears in “Dealing with Socially Responsible Customers,” and see the full list of authors here.

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  • Using coding language Maple to learn vibrational mechanics

    This new book, Vibrational Mechanics by Maple Practical Applications, promises “to assist undergraduate and postgraduate students majoring in physics, mechanical engineering, electromechanical and aerospace engineering in acquiring a more thorough knowledge of vibrational mechanics using the Maple programming language.” Read more about the book and see the full list of authors below.

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  • D’Amore-McKim professors offer new framework for digitally transforming businesses

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    Four professors in the D’Amore-McKim School of Business—Koen Pauwels, Zeynep Aksehirli, Yakov Bart and Kwong Chan—have published “Break the Wall: Democratize Digital In Your Business,” which examines issues facing businesses undergoing digital transformation. The authors have identified a fundamental problem: that “many [organizations] take a very narrow view” toward digital transformation, Pauwels writes in a LinkedIn post, while their “leaders recognize the tidal wave of digital change, with the C-Suite… focused on much larger issues.” To combat this differential, the authors propose a “Nested Adaptive Framework to work through digital transformation tasks at each level in the organization.”

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  • Whiteness and the overdisciplining of BIPOC students

    Mills College Department Chair of Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Natalee Kēhaulani Bauer’s new book “Tender Violence in US Schools: Benevolent Whiteness and the Dangers of Heroic White Womanhood” challenges perceptions that “the over-disciplining of Black and Indigenous students is… a problem located within pathologized or misunderstood communities.” Instead, she argues that standards of education in the United States arise out of a racist framework. Her book examines “how white women (the majority of US teachers) have historically understood their roles in the disciplining of Black and Indigenous students,” and how these roles came to support of the white settler…

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  • Illustrated activism: Celebrating ‘the daily lives of Black folks’

    In the new book “Living While Black: Portraits of Everyday Resistance,” professor of African American literature Ajuan Mance presents illustrated scenes of Black folks as they go about their daily lives. The book “celebrates the small acts of resistance” that arise out of daily living, and displays the “many ways to be an activist.” The book also contains a foreword by Black Lives Matter founder Alicia Garza.

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  • Pluralizing research in mental health policy

    David A. Rochefort, arts and sciences distinguished professor of political science, and Jared Hirschfield ’20, have co-authored a book chapter titled “National, State, and Local Mental Health Policy: Meeting the Needs for Research Pluralism and Application of Knowledge” in the recently published “Research Handbook on Mental Health Policy.” See the publisher’s webpage for more information.

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  • Northeastern professor receives 2022 AESA Critics’ Choice Book Award

    Emily Nusbaum and Jessica Nina Lester (Indiana University) have won the American Educational Studies Association 2022 award for their recent co-edited book, “Centering Diverse Bodyminds in Critical Qualitative Inquiry.” The editors approach “disability embodiment and the lived experience of disability [as] potential sources of method and methodological advancement.”

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  • Advances in imaging amphibian regeneration

    This book chapter (from “Salamanders: Methods and Protocols”) provides an alternative protocol to the in situ hybridization of amphibians. While this protocol “has been utilized for decades in axolotls, it has been challenging to implement consistently across tissues.” The authors here present an approach combining a hybridized chain reaction (HCR) with fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), providing a method with “a considerably higher signal to background” noise ratio. See the full list of authors and read this book chapter, “Hybridization Chain Reaction Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization (HCR-FISH) in Ambystoma mexicanum Tissue,” here.

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  • Raising (regenerative) axolotls for experimental uses

    Mexican axolotls are capable of regenerating “amputated limbs and injured body parts,” and their study is valuable to both stem cell and regeneration research. From “Salamanders: Methods and Protocols”, this book chapter by professor James Monaghan and PhD. Anastasia Yandulskaya presents the conditions for raising lab-healthy axolotls, how to breed them, and how to maintain their environment. Read this book chapter, “Establishing a New Research Axolotl Colony,” here.

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  • Book of visual poetry from Mills College professor

    Carlota Caulfield, head of Spanish and Spanish American studies at Mills College, with J.M. Calleja, has published “GHROMYT,” a collaborative work of experimental, visual poetry.

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