Held in the basement of West Village F every Wednesday night, this semester’s open classroom series, entitled Policy Advice to the President, has a schedule of speakers that include Michael Dukakis, former Democratic nominee for president and professor of political science at Northeastern; Greg Mankiw, economic policy adviser to Mitt Romney; Nicholas Burns, former undersecretary of state for political affairs and many more.
Two trustees have jointly donated $60 million, the largest gift in Northeastern’s history, to the university’s College of Business Administration, President Joseph E. Aoun announced Wednesday.
Northeastern rose again in US News and World Report’s ranking of the nation’s best colleges for 2013, sharing 56th place overall with Ohio State University.
An estimated $15,000 to $20,000 will be donated by Northeastern University’s Office of City and Community Affairs to improve the drainage of McLaughlin Park on Parker Hill Avenue.
Workers at UBurger serve customers in the new Curry Student Center food court. After a summer of frenzied gutting and reconstruction, the renovated Curry Student Center has reopened its doors to a host of new eateries and appreciative students.
Demetrios Pseudoikonomou, owner of Cappy’s Pizza & Subs, stood outside his business 11 months ago and watched as firefighters struggled to put out the flames engulfing his restaurant’s roof. Almost a year later, Cappy’s, of 82 Westland Ave. has reopened for business and students from Northeastern and other surrounding schools are moving back into the apartments above the restaurant.
Following in the footsteps of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Columbia University and Harvard University, this month Northeastern will be the fourth school to host the Millennium Campus Conference and a cast of world-renowned speakers.
As part of its A NU Start in Boston issue, The News sat down with Executive Director of the Husky Energy Action Team Jessica Feldish for more information on HEAT.
As construction begins on a new residence hall behind the YMCA on Huntington Avenue, The News created a timeline to show the evolution of the area and the project.
At a community meeting with Northeastern administrators Tuesday night, residents of the Fenway said they know the area around Gainsborough and Hemenway streets and Symphony Road as “Animal House." There, they said, students destroy property and shatter the peace of late weekend nights, strolling through the neighborhood after bars close and parties clear out. The problem of student behavior in "Animal House" was one of several concerns residents relayed to university officials Tuesday as Northeastern and the surrounding community work to create a mutually agreeable Institutional Master Plan (IMP) for the school.
