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.
Join the Boston.com Book Club on April 27 at 6 p.m. for a discussion with Newtonville Books owner Mary Cotton and featured guest author and Love Letters columnist Meredith Goldstein on her latest novel, "Things That Grow." Published in March, the story centers around a teenager in Natick who brings her grandmother’s ashes to beautiful gardens around Massachusetts.
Buy the book: https://bookshop.org/a/1548/9781328770103
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