Joseph E. Aoun, a leader in higher education policy and a renowned scholar in linguistics, is the seventh President of Northeastern University.
President Aoun has strategically aligned the University’s research enterprise with three global imperatives—health, security, and sustainability. Northeastern’s faculty focus on interdisciplinary research, entrepreneurship, and transforming academic research into commercial solutions for the world’s most pressing problems. During President Aoun’s tenure, the University has realized a 189 percent growth in external research funding, along with approximately 1,500 patent applications filed by faculty and students.
Greater Boston endures some of the nation's worst rush hour traffic. Our aging transit system is maddening and unreliable. It's a crisis that puts our region's prosperity at risk. The Boston Globe's Spotlight Team delved into this subject in a three-part series, "Seeing Red," which began November 19th. Please come to a follow-up discussion event that includes Globe reporters who worked on the series, as well as local transportation specialists.
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