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.
As of Sept. 5, students have been able to vote for this year’s DogHouse t-shirt, a decision usually reserved for a select few.
“Rather than having five people decide for the masses…we’ve decided to open up it up to the public,” current DogHouse leader and fourth year Health Science major Mike Davis said. “We want to make it a point to show that The DogHouse is a collective, and that every person, from a freshman new to campus to a senior about to graduate is a part of it.”
Last Friday, President Aoun was joined by Secretary of the Department of Transportation (DoT), Anthony Foxx, state senators, Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey, Gov. Deval Patrick and Mayor Martin J. Walsh to present a $20 million federal grant to renovate Ruggles Station.
As stated by the World Health Organization, early detection of cancer greatly is a primary requirement for successful treatment.
Recipient of the 2014 RISE undergraduate award for Physical and Life Sciences, senior chemistry major Douglas Townsend,and Max Diem, professor of chemistry, are pioneering a new form of cancer diagnostics.
Over the summer, Northeastern President Joseph E. Aoun announced to the university’s faculty that Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, Stephen W. Director, would be retiring after seven years of service.
“I will be forever grateful for the way Steve approached his job as provost; he always acted with the greater interests of the university in mind,” Aoun said in an email to university faculty. “This is the mark of a true university citizen and a true leader.”
A student reported her roommate was smoking marijuana. Officers responded and spoke with both students in the hallway before being let in by the reported offender. The subject admitted to smoking marijuana with her two friends. The drugs (less than one ounce) and paraphernalia were later confiscated. A report was filed and action was referred to OSCCR.
On Sept. 1, Allston Christmas brought its usual chaos to Boston as thousands of rental units changed hands from outgoing to incoming students. The Allston Christmas tradition dates back to the ‘60s and refers to large quantities of furniture and household goods that litter the streets of the Allston, Brighton and Mission Hill areas during college move-in time.
Throughout the 20th century the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been a hot issue that attracts a great amount of controversy, both on a political and ethical levels. Discussing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can be a challenging feat, but teaching it is even harder.
Former Northeastern student Ahmad Abousamra was placed on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist list in 2013, and has a $50,000 bounty on his head, for allegedly heading the social media for the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militant group.
