By Zack Sampson, News Staff
Northeastern a top entrepreneurship university
The Princeton Review ranked Northeastern the nation’s ninth best college for undergraduate entrepreneurship in a collaborative list released Tuesday with Entrepreneur magazine. After looking at more than 2,000 undergraduate and graduate business schools, The Princeton Review determined two lists of the Top 25 universities in each category for entrepreneurship. Northeastern made the undergraduate list.
Surveyors for the two publications judged each university on multiple criteria, including course offerings, the availability of internships and experiential learning, enrollment, graduate success and extracurricular opportunities. Northeastern, ranked 14th on the undergraduate list last year, fell between University of Arizona (in 8th place) and University of Oklahoma (in 10th) this year. University of Houston earned the top spot.
College of Engineering dean reassigned
University Provost Stephen Director appointed David Luzzi, dean of the College of Engineering, executive director of the University’s Strategic Security Initiative, the university said in a Sept. 19 news release.
Luzzi will conclude his tenure as dean to transition into his new position. An interim dean will take over while the university starts a national search for a successor. As executive director, Luzzi will help Northeastern strengthen its security-related research on the national level. He will collaborate with university administrators and the Center for Research Innovation to direct the school’s future security plans.
He will also work with co-directors of the George J. Kostas Institute for Homeland Security, which will open this week. The news release said Luzzi has already been heavily involved with the homeland security initiative, as he “was instrumental in securing the $12 million gift from alumnus George Kostas” that made the institute possible.
Architecture professor ranked as a ‘stylish Bostonian’
Tim Love, a Northeastern architecture professor, was named one of the Top 25 Most Stylish Bostonians this week by the Boston Globe.
In his “Most Stylish” Q&A with Globe Correspondent Kathleen Pierce, Love said he dresses “sideways,” not up.
“When I’m in front of an audience, I try to avoid looking like another consultant in a blue blazer in a scene from central casting,” he said in the Sept. 18 feature. “I rarely wear a jacket, and I haven’t worn a necktie in 12 years. I’m in a nice-color shirt, pants, socks, and shoes. I dress unusually normal.”
Love is also the founding principal at Utile Inc., the architecture firm which designed the Boston Harbor Islands Pavilion on the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway.
Other notable Bostonians on the list were Bruins center Brad Marchand and Cambridge College President Deborah Jackson.
