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Urban Engagement

Our work on economic development, affordable housing, public education, and urban health care demonstrates our influence as one of the nation's premier urban universities. It’s the Northeastern difference.

NEIGHBORHOODS
Second annual "Pharmacy Summer Experience" introduces local kids to the field of Pharmacy
Squashbusters building Greater Boston area high school students attended Northeastern’s second annual “Pharmacy Summer Experience,” a four-day camp created by School of Pharmacy faculty members, pharmacists, and pharmacy students to offer teenagers a glimpse of the opportunities within the field of pharmacy.
BOSTON AND REGION
Northeastern students mentor local preschoolers in literacy
Photo of Northeastern Stuent engaging urban schoolchildren Northeastern students, along with their peers at Wheelock College and Suffolk University, are helping preschoolers in the Roxbury neighborhood get a jump on literacy through the Jumpstart School Readiness for All Initiative.
NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL
Northeastern University awarded U.S. Department of Education grant for Middle East studies programs
a photo of two speakers during a panel discussion Northeastern University was awarded a coveted U.S. Department of Education grant in May to fund the creation of a new major in Middle East studies, and expand course offerings in Arabic, as well as Hebrew.
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