Members of the Class of 1963, (from left) Edward Brady, BA’63, J. Philip Johnston, AS'63, MEd'66, H'81, and Joseph Payton, BA’63, look through their yearbook during the Pop Goes Reunion! event on May 10 as part of Reunion Weekend.
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CEO OF NEW YORK LIFE ELECTED CHAIRMAN OF NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Sy Sternberg, ME'68, joined the Board of Trustees in 2004 and will succeed Neal F. Finnegan, BA'61, H'98, as chairman on July 1.
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‘FORWARD-THINKING’ STEPHEN DIRECTOR NAMED PROVOST
President Joseph E. Aoun has appointed Stephen W. Director to be the University's provost and senior vice president for academic affairs.
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HUMAN MOBILITY IS NOT RANDOM, FINDS PHYSICIST
In a groundbreaking paper published as a cover story in Nature magazine, Northeastern University physicist Professor Albert-László Barabási and his team found that humans can be characterized based on how they move.
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NORTHEASTERN’S OWN GRINOLD DONATES $1M TO ATHLETICS
Jack Grinold, Northeastern's associate director of athletics and longtime sports information director, has donated $1 million to benefit athletics.
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FOUR AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN TO JOIN FACULTY
President Joseph E. Aoun’s oft-stated drive to make Northeastern a model for society, rather than simply a mirror on issues of diversity, is gaining more traction with the addition of four African-American women to the University’s faculty.
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NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY RESEARCHER RECEIVES INTERNATIONAL HONORS
Leader of Barnett Institute and Leading Expert on Separation Science and Bioanalytical Chemistry is recognized by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Csaba Horváth Medal of Innsbruck, Austria.
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REUNION WEEKEND RECAP
From the Catch the Spirit! event at Fenway Park through Northeastern Night at the Pops, there was something for everyone who returned to Huntington Avenue for Reunion Weekend
on May 9-10.
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NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY NIGHT AT THE POPS RECAP
More than 1,400 Northeastern University alumni, staff, faculty, and friends soaked in the sights and sounds of Symphony Hall at the 13th annual Northeastern Night at the Pops.
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ALUMNUS RECEIVES LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FROM THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
Sajed Kamal, BA'70, MEd'71, received a 2008 Lifetime Achievement Environmental Merit Award from the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), New England Region.
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ALUMNUS NAMED AMONG TOP LEADERS
Steven F. Parkinson, E’75, was recently named a 2008 Top Ten Public Works Leader of the Year by the American Public Works Association (APWA).
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Marie Berry, BHS'86
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Marie Berry
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FOR BERRY, LAST MISSION WAS UPLIFTING SUCCESS
When Marie Berry, BHS’86, began her nursing career in a Boston hospital after graduating from Northeastern University, a military lifestyle may have been the furthest thing from her mind. She had a love for nursing, medicine, science, and patient care, and how it all came together.
But she soon became disenchanted with hospital politics, of how nurses – who provided so much of the primary care for patients – were not truly appreciated.
"I found nursing to be very political, and I was not prepared for that," Berry said. "It was not a comfortable place to be."
"Leaving Northeastern, my goal was to be head nurse of a floor at a hospital. But it wasn’t long before I was wondering if nursing really was what I wanted to do."
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