• Celebrate 100 years of Fenway Park!

    Join us for the 7th Annual NU Family Day at Fenway on Saturday, June 2, 2012. Bring your family and friends to celebrate Fenway Park's 100th Anniversary. Explore the Green Monster, take in the views from the roof deck and create lasting memories of Fenway for the next 100 years. » Register Today!

  • NU@Noon Spring Series - Register Today!

    NU@Noon provides a broad range of educational and intellectual activities for retired, semi-retired, and other adult participants. This educational series offers alumni and friends the chance to learn and embrace the knowledge of the university’s award-winning faculty, community leaders, and industry pundits.

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    Catalyst makes it easy to follow, connect with, and support the most innovative and inspiring student projects at Northeastern University. Choose your favorite projects and give any amount, knowing that your money will go directly to funding the organizations most important to you. Support a student projects today!

Upcoming Events

Twentieth Century Film Series II | May. 16

Gerald Herman, Assistant Professor, Department of History, College of Social Sciences and Humanities

Cinema and film have impacted many areas in our society including arts, technology, and politics. As global events occurred and tastes and technologies changed over the years, the film industry also made changes to coincide with current events. Professor Herman will take an in-depth historical look at how some of the world’s greatest events impacted film up through the mid-20th century. He will also look how the creation of “Hollywood” influenced the transformation of film.

Third Wednesdays with the Washington DC Alumni Chapter | May. 16

The last of the season! Join us as we celebrate our final Third Wednesdays gathering of the season with Huskies and friends as we meet up for Happy Hour at The Front Page in Dupont Circle. In addition to great drink specials and appetizers, get active in a competitive game of corn hole (also know as “bags”)! Enjoy this great opportunity to connect with alumni for a casual and fun get-together. Make plans for the summer to meet up at another Northeastern Alumni program!

Third Thursday with the Arizona Alumni Chapter in Tempe | May. 17

Clear your schedule and join fellow Northeastern University alumni for a happy hour event at Four Peaks Brewery in Tempe. This is a great opportunity to network with other Huskies, meet new friends, and strengthen existing relationships.

Third Thursday with Texas Alumni in Dallas | May. 17

Clear your schedule and join fellow Northeastern University alumni for a happy hour event in Dallas at Vino 100. This will be a great opportunity to network with other Huskies, making new friends and strengthening existing relationships.

MORE EVENTS MORE EVENTS


A solar-​​powered solution to the worldwide water crisis
Student-​​researchers have cre­ated a solar-​​powered desali­na­tion system designed to pro­duce potable ocean water.


Students take first place in National Security Innovation Competition
Grad­uate stu­dents con­ducting research at North­eastern University’s Aware­ness and Local­iza­tion of Explosives-​​​​Related Threats (ALERT) Center have won first place in the 2012 National Secu­rity Inno­va­tion Com­pe­ti­tion held last month.


Northeastern University moves forward with new graduate campus in Seattle
Uni­ver­sity to launch its second grad­uate campus; announces appoint­ment of Seattle-​​based chief executive.


Northeastern hosts U.S. under secretary of education
Martha Kanter, under sec­re­tary of the U.S. Depart­ment of Edu­ca­tion, dis­cussed the Obama administration’s blue­print for keeping col­lege afford­able in a town-​​hall-​​style forum at North­eastern on Tuesday.

  

Spotlight

Tanya Kropinicki, AS'08

A shared love of food proved to be a saving grace for Tanya Kropinicki, AS’08, and two of her co-workers when company downsizing resulted the elimination of their positions.

“It first started as a joke,” said Kropinicki, who had worked in her company’s marketing department after graduating with a degree in Communications Studies. “None of us had any experience in the restaurant industry except for cooking and waitressing. But we did some research, looking into what it would take. It was always a ‘what-if’ kind of thing. Then ‘what-if’ happened.”

Much of the research Kropinicki and her friends conducted centered on exclusivity: what food could they provide that wasn’t available anywhere else?