Monday, Sept. 29
10:32 a.m.
A Northeastern University (NU) student reported to NUPD headquarters that he and his teammates on the men’s cross country team left their shirts outside Cabot Gym while running between 6:40 a.m. and 7:15 a.m. and when they returned the clothing was missing. A report was filed.
The Marine Science Center at Northeastern held its annual open house, giving the public an opportunity to have a look at the latest research being performed at the Center.
This semester, Northeastern University has embracedthe opportunity to host radio personality and music festival director Dubi Lenz, former emcee of the Israeli radio program “HaKol Zorem” for the last 30 years. Lenz’s résumé includes being president of the Europe Forum of Music Festivals and director of Israel’s biggest jazz festival, the Red Sea Jazz Festival.
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An intoxicated male student signing into a room in West Village F was reported. NUPD responded and spoke with the student who was conscious and alert. The underage student admitted to drinking and was referred to O.S.C.C.R. No medical transport was required. 30 minutes later another intoxicated male signing into a room in Speare Hall was reported. NUPD responded and spoke to the student who was conscious but not alert. Boston EMS was notified and transported the underage student to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. The RD was notified, and the student was referred to O.S.C.C.R.
In keeping with the trend established by former university president Richard M. Freeland, Northeastern continued to rise in the US News and World Report list of Best National Universities. It is now number 42.
On Monday, Sept. 29, the Provost Search Committee held an open forum for undergraduate students on the second floor Mezzanine of the Curry Student Center.
September marked the announcement of the winners of the MacArthur Foundation’s Fellows Program. Mary L. Bonauto, Northeastern alumna and the civil rights project director for Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD), was one of the lucky recipients.
Hundreds of thousands of concerned participants flooded the streets of New York to raise awareness of climate change and the need for reform during the largest event of its kind in history — The People’s Climate March. The march garnered a massive student turnout with many environmentally-oriented clubs from Northeastern making an appearance.
Aaron Kanzer, a third year political science and economics combined major, jetted off to Hungary this summer to present and defend a pair of papers he wrote for the Global Debate and Public Policy Challenge (GDPPC). Following his eighth place finish, Kanzer boarded another international flight to visit an unlikely friend and mentor: Wolfgang Petritsch, former Austrian Ambassador to the United Nations.
From newspapers to radio and television, and now online news and social media, the platform in which people communicate and merge with media has changed. And as the industry changes, the key storytellers of the industry have to change and become entrepreneurial, said Ellis Henican, a Pulitzer Prize-winning Newsday columnist, New York Times Best selling author and radio and television personality.
BrowZine is a brand new app that enables students to browse, read, search and monitor Snell Library's academic journals. The app provides simple access to scholarly articles, journals and research papers across a vast array of disciplines, without having to print out mammoth chunks of paper or lugging around laptops all day.
Raytheon Amphitheatre was packed to full capacity as students and professors came in droves to hear Dr. Ross Cagan speak about his cancer research last Thursday. Cagan has the ability to create personalized treatment models for patients by testing different treatment techniques on fruit flies.
