Grants and Awards
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2024-2025 Grants Awarded
- Bhargava, Rahul. Co-Principal Investigator: Data Theatre for Civic Deliberation. With Dani Snyder-Young, Jonathan Carr, Michael Arnold Mages, Moira Zellner, Laura Perovich, and Antonio Ocampo-Guzman. Mellon Foundation: Cultures of US Democracy. $500,000. Awarded Feb 2025.
- Bhargava, Rahul. Principal Investigator: Grassroots AI-supported News Monitoring with Human Rights Organizations. Proposal to Data Empowerment Fund. $100,000. Awarded May 2024.
- McGivney, Eileen. Co-PI. AI-Empowered Reflective Learning Across the Virtuality Spectrum. NSF 23-624, Research on Innovative Technologies for Enhanced Learning (RITEL).PI: Harteveld, C., Co-PIs: Cooper, S., Kleinman, E. $900,000.
- McGivney, Eileen. Lead PI. Mentored Award—Improving Health Sciences Education with Virtual Reality: Investigating Interactivity and Learning. TIER 1. Co-PIs: Chukoskie, L. (Mentor), Cheerman, H. $50,000.
- Isautier, Zorana Matíc. Center for Design. (2024–2025). “Bridges” Fellowship – Spatial Experience Mapping: Assessment of Quality of Public Open Spaces in Boston Chinatown [Seed grant awarded]. Northeastern University ($2,000).
2024-2025 Honors and Awards
- Alper, Meryl. 2025, Northeastern University, Excellence in Research and Creative Activity Award, College of Arts, Media, and Design (CAMD)
- Alper, Meryl. 2024, American Library Association, Choice Outstanding Academic Title for Kids Across the Spectrums
- Alper, Meryl. 2024, American Sociological Association, Honorable Mention, Best Book Award for Kids Across the Spectrums, Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology Section
- DeVito, Michael Ann. Broadening Participation Award, Khoury College @ Northeastern
- DeVito, Michael Ann. 2x Best Paper Honorable Mentions at the ACM CHI 2025 Conference
- Gradecki, Jennifer. AI Faculty Fellow, Provost and Chancellor’s offices and the Center for Advancing Teaching and Learning Through Research (CATLR), Northeastern University.
- Kennedy, Dan. What Works in Community News: Media Startups, News Deserts, and the Future of the Fourth Estate (Beacon, 2024), by Ellen Clegg and Dan Kennedy, longlisted for a 2025 Mass Book Award by the Massachusetts Center for the Book. Winners will be announced in Fall 2025.
- Isautier, Zorana Matić. Nominee, CAMD Excellence in Teaching Award, Northeastern University (2024). 2025, Northeastern University, Excellence in Research and Creative Activity Award, College of Arts, Media, and Design (CAMD)