Dr. Xavier Costa, an architect, author and former dean of the Elisava Design School at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain, will be the first dean of the newly-formed College of Arts, Media and Design Sept. 1, according to and e-mail from the Office of the Provost.
Costa was one of the candidates recommended to Provost Stephen Director by a committee of nine people, including an undergraduate and a graduate student, and six faculty members.
"[Costa] brought and exciting sense of possibility for the interdisciplinary work that will go on here," said Stephen Burgard, Director of the School of Journalism and a member of the search committee.
Dr. J. Murray Gibson was named the founding dean of the new College of Science, according to a university press release. Gibson, who currently works at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois as the associate laboratory director and the director of advanced photon source, will take over the dean post Oct. 1.
Officials of the Burlington Planning Board approved an expansion of Northeastern’s Burlington campus, which will nearly double the size of campus’s facilities, last Thursday. The building is estimated to be between 60,000 and 70,000 square feet, and house a graduate level research center, according to a June 18 article in the Boston Globe.
Philip W. Cheney, 74, senior consultant for corporate and government partnerships for the Center of Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems (CenSSIS) at the College of Engineering, died at Saints Memorial Medical Center in Lowell May 25. After spending 40 years at the Raytheon Company, Dr. Cheney retired from his post as vice president of engineering in 2001. However, he wanted to keep working. In 2003 he returned to work force, joining Northeastern not only as a part of CenSSIS, but also as a visiting professor, engineering executive in residence. He also taught an engineering leadership course for the Gordon Engineering Leadership Program.
Undergraduates, graduate students, faculty and staff members can attend Six Flags New England this Friday. Tickets are available at Blackman Box Office, and are $5 for undergraduates, $10 for graduate students tickets and $20 for faculty and staff members. Buses will leave campus at 9 a.m. and return to campus at 6 p.m. For more information, visit http://www.northeastern.edu/studentactivities/Summester_2010.html.
Like almost every university, Northeastern has produced many a scholar, businessman, lawyer and public official. But now Husky Nation has a more rare product to tout: a soon-to-be reality TV star. Ashlee Feldman, a 2009 graduate with a degree in communication studies and former captain of the women's basketball team, will star on "The Real World: New Orleans."
A few times a year, then-Prof. Bernard L. Gordon would show up at the offices of his colleagues in Northeastern's Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences with armfuls of books and artifacts from Book and Tackle Shop, a bookstore he owned in Rhode Island. He would set the books down and start to talk about art, history, fisheries – any topic he knew his colleagues were interested in. "With Bernie, you never knew what the subject of the conversation would be," said Mal Hill, chair of the Earth and Environmental Sciences Department. "But you didn't have to worry much. He could talk about a wide range of topics."
President Joseph Aoun sent a letter to Senator Scott Brown (R-Mass) to support the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act, a federal bill that would give young, undocumented immigrants a path to citizenship. If passed, qualifying immigrants would be granted conditional status for six years, which would allow them to complete at least two years of college or military service and apply for legal, permanent residence. “As an educator, it is my personal belief that expanding educational opportunities for young people is critical to the continued vibrancy and leadership of our nation,” Aoun said in a statement to The News.
Conversations between Northeastern officials and members of surrounding communities will continue tomorrow evening, following last week's meeting with about 50 angry residents of Mission Hill and nearby neighborhoods.
The parents of Rebecca Payne, the Northeastern student shot to death in her Mission Hill apartment two years ago, said police recently told them there are “persons of interest and some leads” in the case of her murder, which has not produced any arrests to date. “They’re pretty sure that Becca was not the intended target, that it was a case of mistaken identity,” Nicholas Payne told The News. Rebecca Payne was 22 when a building manager found her dead in her Parker Hill Avenue apartment on May 20, 2008. The athletic training major had been shot twice in the legs and once in the chest. Nicholas Payne said Boston Police Department investigators “seem pretty sure” that the killer or killers entered his daughter’s apartment through her patio door.
