Research by Northeastern’s Alessandro Vespig­nani tracking the spread of the Ebola virus in Liberia in 2014 and the effec­tive­ness of non-​​pharmaceutical inter­ven­tions has won the first annual Aspen Insti­tute Italia Award.

The award, which is based on both the quality of the research and the social impact it can have, honors a paper in the the­o­ret­ical or applied nat­ural sci­ences resulting from a col­lab­o­ra­tion between researchers in Italy and the U.S. It comes with a prize of approx­i­mately $45,000.

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