On Wednesday night, DivestNU, a sub-committee of the Husky Environmental Action Team, discussed with the Northeastern College Republicans' Invest NUr Future about DivestNU's referendum question on the Student Government Association's Direct Election ballot. The student group asked the university to divest its investment in fossil fuel companies.

The 112th commencement address in TD Garden will be delivered by Janet Napolitano, president of the University of California (UC) system and previous Secretary of Homeland Security in President Barack Obama’s administration, according to Northeastern’s website. The New York native, who was ranked the eighth most powerful woman in the world by Forbes, will be presented as an honorary doctorate during the ceremony in front of 20,000 graduating students and Northeastern community members, according to the university’s website. A former governor of Arizona, Napolitano was the first female Secretary of Homeland Security. She has led many federal and local organizations that support children and school teachers, etc. Now, as the 20th president of the UC colleges, Napolitano oversees 10 campuses and more than 234,000 students, according to the UC Office of the President’s website. “[Napolitano’s] commitment to making an impact on society through public service is exemplary of the accomplished, fulfilled life we aspire for all Northeastern graduates to achieve,” Aoun said on the university’s website. This will not be Napolitano’s first time on Northeastern’s campus. In November 2012, she visited Northeastern’s Neal F. Finnegan Plaza to honor Veterans Day with Aoun and gave a keynote address at the Veteran’s Day Ceremony. More honorary doctorate recipients will be announced on the university’s website soon.

The divisive debate over the Israeli occupation of Palestine erupted again on campus Tuesday evening, at a screening of gay porn filmmaker Michael Lucas’ “Undressing Israel: Gay Men in the Promised Land.” Lucas’s depiction of gay life in Israel provoked a protest at afterHOURS by QueerUP that targeted NUPride and Huskies for Israel.

Northeastern is kicking off an array of scholarship initiatives targeted at increasing local enrollment, with a special focus on the neighborhoods of Roxbury, the South End, the Fenway, Mission Hill and Jamaica Plain. The project is referred to as the Northeastern/Neighborhood Partnership for Academic Success.

Entry of the week: Tuesday, March 18, 8 a.m. Students for Justice in Palestine and other groups supporting them staged an orderly protest on Huntington Avenue near Krentzman Quad, with approximately 250 attendees.

Entry of the week: Sunday, March 16, 5:09 a.m. A man on the second floor of Snell Library was reported to have an “altered mental status” and was vomiting. Officers spoke to the student, who had just been reported as missing by a roommate. The student was escorted to their residence.

After months of protest and the collapse of the Ukraine government, the Northeastern Office of International Study Programs (OISP) has taken precautionary measures for the Russia/Ukraine summer II Dialogue of Civilizations by removing the Ukraine portion of the program.

Though the Holocaust came to an end nearly 70 years ago, the painful recollection still haunts many survivors and their descendants. Early Tuesday morning strangers and friends alike gathered in the Egan Research Center not to mourn the tragedies that occurred, but to commemorate the strength and courage of those who fought back. This reunion marked the beginning of Northeastern’s annual Holocaust Awareness week.

Faculty members addressed the recent suspension of the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at a Faculty Senate meeting Wednesday. The student organization, which distributed fake eviction notices in campus dorms, was told that it violated the school’s prohibition of unauthorized flyers.

The head of Northeastern’s alumni relations department resigned from the university last month, in the midst of the largest fundraising campaign in the school’s history.

Looking to give a voice to the voiceless, Northeastern associate professor Rupal Patel and collaborator Tim Bunnell have launched The Human Voicebank Initiative, a crowd-sourced project aimed at creating personalized synthetic voices for those with speech impairments.