Join us for an evening of excellent food, great friends and exceptional Insights.

Universities are defined by many things — their faculty, their research, their students, their buildings and landscape. Nothing however, defines a University more than the knowledge, excellence and achievement that takes place in the synapses between these defining features.

Insights, a faculty lecture and dinner series, offers you an opportunity to be dinner guests with Northeastern's finest.

Each Insights evening, we will bring you award-winning and nationally-recognized faculty, staff, and researchers, engaging you in a discourse from multiple disciplines.

Fall 2008 Schedule:

Emerging Healthcare Technologies: Real Hope or More Hype?
Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Post-Election Policy 
Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Complete spring schedule coming soon!

Cost:
$39 individual, $62 couple
All Insights lectures include dinner and dessert reception.
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$1 of your event registration fee will benefit The Northeastern Fund.

Insights Fall 2008 Program

Emerging Healthcare Technologies: Real Hope or More Hype?

Wednesday, November 12, 2008
6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

Alumni Center, 716 Columbus Avenue, 6th Floor

Increasing opportunities are available to improve patient care with the implementation of evolving technologies. New faculty member, Roger Edwards, ScD, will describe some of the major drivers related to health information technologies and genomics, while also exploring how and when these “infrastructure” capabilities can transform health care.

Speaker:

Roger A. Edwards, ScD
Assistant Professor, School of Pharmacy,
Bouvé College of Health Sciences

Assistant Professor Edwards joins the Bouvé College of Health Sciences this fall as an assistant professor in pharmacy practice. His prior work includes experiences in academia, industry, and government in the diffusion of medical innovations. His most recent work has been in the pharmaceutical and medical device R&D and commercialization. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Human Biology and a master’s degree in Health Services Research from Stanford University, and received his doctorate in science in Health Policy and Management from the Harvard School of Public Health.

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Insights Spring 2009 Program

The Federal Reserve and its Impact on the United States

Wednesday, February 4, 2009
6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

Alumni Center, 716 Columbus Avenue, 6th Floor

The Federal Reserve System controls the nation’s money supply and regulates banks, with the aim of providing a safe and stable monetary and financial system. While most people have heard of The Fed, few people understand what it does and how it operates. This lecture will provide an overview on how the Federal Reserve controls money and the U.S. banking system, how its actions can impact presidential elections, and its expanded role in the recent financial crisis.

Speaker:

Emery A. Trahan
Donald J. Harding Professor of Finance,
College of Business Administration

Professor Trahan teaches classes in corporate finance, valuation, financial strategy, and mergers and acquisitions at Northeastern. He is also an instructor in several executive education programs and the high-tech MBA program at Northeastern. His paper, “Is What is Best for Employees Best for Shareholders?” co-published with Olubunmi Faleye, was named to the top 10 percent of papers presented at the 2006 Financial Management Association meeting in 2006.

Registration coming soon!

For more information on the spring Insights schedule, contact Reja Gamble at 617.373.2907.