Provost Stephen Director hailed Northeastern’s accomplishments during the last few years and said there would be continued changes to facilities and programs over the next five years, as well as a bump in the number of faculty members.
Rapper Wiz Khalifa, known for “Black and Yellow,” will headline this year’s Springfest concert, the Council for University Programs (CUP) announced at midnight. The concert will take place Saturday, April 9 at Matthews Arena.
The Springfest lineup will also feature Third Eye Blind, Taking Back Sunday and Mac Miller. Tickets for the concert will go on sale Tuesday, March 22 at 9 p.m.
Graduate students in the Bouve College of Health Sciences and the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy were recently selected by the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) to help conduct research on the nation’s health care workforce and provide recommendations to help reduce health care costs.
Northeastern President Joseph Aoun named former Harvard University official Elisabeth Werby to the new chief of staff position last month, as well as announcing Senior Vice President for Administration and Finance Jack McCarthy’s retirement Feb. 24.
Could Northeastern’s stringent club approval process be stifling student involvement?
Middler computer science major Greg Kerr said the process is “nightmarish,” after spending most of the current semester trying to start a club.
At Monday’s Student Government Association (SGA) meeting, Kerr appeared during open discussion time to call the university’s policies “burdensome,” decrying the “red tape” he’s faced.
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.
