Entrepreneurs meet with business owners

About 100 students met with local business leaders from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Wednesday at Curry Student Center to exchange ideas in the second Northeastern Entrepreneurship Expo, or NEXPO.

Northeastern’s Inter-Disciplinary Entrepreneurship Accelerator (IDEA) hosted the event, bringing entrepreneurial and business groups from the university and the Boston area. Students in the IDEA group also exchanged ideas with attendees from outside organizations.

More than 20 groups were featured, including the founders of Annie Mulz, who ran a clothing shop last summer on Newbury Street.

The event was open to all Northeastern students.

– Zac Estrada, News Staff

Egyptian protests explained, discussed

Students, faculty and staff members attended a discussion Feb. 4 about the events still unfolding in Egypt and the Middle East, less than a week after three Northeastern students studying there were evacuated from the American University of Cairo.

The roughly 300 students and faculty members who attended heard from Political Science Professor Denis Sullivan, who runs Northeastern’s International Affairs Program and Middle East Center. Sullivan told the audience the events in Egypt have been years in the making.

Associate Director of Middle East Studies Ilham Khuri-Makdisi called the events “monumental,” and said the area would be forever changed.

-Zac Estrada, News Staff

Professors to review Obama’s first term

Professors will discuss President Barack Obama’s progress during his first term from 10 a.m. to noon and from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. today at the Raytheon Amphitheatre in the Egan Research Center. Event organizers will discuss the Obama administration’s impact on the economy, environment and other areas, as well as the Tea Party movement’s effect on the next election. The event is sponsored by Political Science Department Chair Thomas O’Neill, and is free and open to all students.

-Zac Estrada, News Staff