Northeastern officials have completed an extensive review of the university’s protocol for handling hazardous materials in research labs on campus, Director of Communications Renata Nyul said.
President Joseph Aoun ordered the review after the Sept. 12 death of Emily Staupe, a Northeastern graduate student and researcher who police say died after ingesting crystallized cyanide that may have been from a university research lab.
Northeastern Senior Vice President of Administration and Finance Jack McCarthy gave a presentation at yesterday’s Faculty Senate meeting on the proposed plan to construct a new dormitory building to take the place of the current rear YMCA building.
Recently hired Office of Student Conduct and Conflict Resolution (OSCCR) director Mary Wegmann hopes to get student input in order to plot a new path for the department, attempting to shed the negative image generated under former leaders.
Despite a raft of changes that has boosted the number of Living and Learning Communities (LLC) and expanded gender-neutral housing, housing officials expect room assignments for incoming freshmen and returning students to go smoothly.
Northeastern’s Assistant Director of Housing Services Tim Touchette spoke Wednesday in front of the Student Government Association (SGA).
The driver who Boston police said fled the scene where he hit and killed a recent Northeastern graduate faces criminal hit-and-run charges after an arraignment Monday.
Northeastern President Joseph Aoun is leading a coalition favoring the extension of low-interest Perkins education loans. Aoun heads a group of 32 university presidents, including Tufts University President Lawrence Bacow and Boston University President Robert Brown, in signing a letter sent to US Department of Education Secretary Arnie Duncan Feb. 9, to keep the Perkins federal loans for students beyond the current 2014 expiration date.
Almost 1,000 disgruntled members of the Huntington Avenue YMCA have begun distributing and signing a petition to prevent Phoenix Property Company and Northeastern from buying two wings of the building and constructing a dormitory in their place.
More than 970 of 2,700 Huntington Avenue branch members have signed the petition, which began in late January.
Newly named Senior Vice President and General Counsel Ralph Martin said he’s looking forward to helping plot Northeastern’s future and pleased to be contributing to an institution he’s seen develop over several decades.
A 30-year-old man was found unresponsive in the stairway of the Renaissance Parking Garage at 835 Columbus Ave. early Wednesday morning, and later pronounced dead of an apparent overdose, according to the Boston Police Department (BPD).
About 100 students met with local business leaders from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Wednesday at Curry Student Center to exchange ideas in the second Northeastern Entrepreneurship Expo, or NEXPO.
