By Stephen Babcock and Hailey Heinz Touting his academic ingenuity and record of fundraising prowess, the university's board of trustees announced Thursday that Joseph Aoun will be the seventh president of Northeastern University. Aoun (pronounced Ah-oon), 53, Dean of the...

When he was in the process of being hired by the University of Southern California's College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, professor Todd Sandler was not only impressed with the attention he received from the college's dean, Joseph Aoun, but also the attention paid to his 11-year-old...

By Bessie King Though university president-elect Joseph Aoun said his new tenure will begin with a "long listening period," his agenda is pretty clear to Gina Edmunds. "I have been here for three years and I don't even know what President Freeland looks like," said the senior...

Administrators and faculty expressed cautious optimism toward Joseph Aoun's appointment Thursday as Northeastern's next president. They said he has an impressive r

The recent background noise generated by the Presidential Search Committee's "shroud of secrecy," as one faculty member described it, could not be ignored, even by the person chosen for the position. "Let me start by making a statement: I am not Al Gore," Joseph Aoun, president-elect...

Frank Palmer Speare 1898-1940 Northeastern's first and longest-serving president, Speare headed the evening program at the YMCA that would later become Northeastern. Carl Stephens Ell 1940-1959 Called "Mr. Northeastern," Ell oversaw a building boom on campus that included the...

It hasn't taken long for Neal Finnegan, chairman of Northeastern's Board of Trustees, to warm up to the president-elect. "He has a kindness about him," said Finnegan, who announced the appointment of Joseph Aoun as the seventh president of Northeastern on Wednesday. Finnegan...

Fielding a question from Billy Haddad, a Student Government Association official who sat on the Fiscal Advisory Committee, Joseph Aoun seized the opportunity to recognize a new alumnus. Haddad, who graduated in May, asked him about the university's dependency on tuition....

By Liz Ratto For commuters, ignoring permit requirements could be an inconvenient and expensive mistake. About 60 cars a month are towed from Northeastern's four garages and several surface lots for parking illegally, said Jim Ferrier, associate director of public safety....

Former All-American football player and Husky Dan Ross died May 16 at his home in Atkinson, N.H. after a jogging session. He was 49 years old. Ross' status as the greatest Husky gridiron player was cemented with his induction into the Northeastern Hall of Fame in 1986 and...

Idiagnosed myself the other day with a staggering affliction: I'm suffering from a build-up of intensity and misuse of adrenaline. A lack of competitive sports in my life that is unsatisfied by the casual intramural at the Marino Center. I call it Post-Matriculation Sports...

And the hits just keep on coming. The Northeastern men's basketball program finished the 2005-06 season with a 19-11 (12-6 Colonial Athletic Association, CAA) record and made it to the semifinal round of the CAA Championships. But since then the program has suffered three...