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Northeastern to lead Homeland Security Center of Excellence
Northeastern is the first university in Massachusetts to win a Centers of Excellence Grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for Explosive Detection, Mitigation and Response after a highly competitive grant process.
Northeastern will receive a grant of $10 million over the next four years, and will assume a leadership role in research involving explosives detection, mitigation and response that can eventually lead to significant job creation, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced.
University President Joseph Aoun praised professor Michael Silevitch (above) and the team of researchers who won the grant.
Electronic edition, Vol. 1 No. 8, Feb. 27, 2008
Vice provost briefs Senate on grad education success
Luis Falcon outlined the increased spending on scholarships and on marketing, among other measures, that have built a substantial growth in Northeastern’s graduate student population.
The university brings in nearly 1,500 new graduate students each fall across the board, not counting those at the School of Professional and Continuing Studies, he said. Overall applications will number more than 9,000 this year, up from 5,000 just three admissions cycles ago, Falcon said.
Students fanning out to help during spring break
Embodying Northeastern’s commitment to solving global and societal needs, students will put their brains and their backs into community-service projects across the country and abroad during spring break.
Northeastern in the news
• The American Prospect argues for a New Deal for the nation’s youth, relying in part on a study by the Center for Labor Market Studies.
• The Boston Globe takes a look at Tinker, the biometric robot created by computer science assistant professor Timothy Bickmore, now lending a helping hand at the Boston Museum of Science.
• Researchers at the Computer Architecture Research Lab and Gordon CenSSIS are teaming with Massachusetts General Hospital on a promising new breast cancer detection technology that improves breast cancer screening accuracy.