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Half The Sky

Northeastern’s Half the Sky Campus Ambassadors Noreen Leahy, Jessica Iocca, Sarah Lombardo, Olivia Allen & Cinnamon Bottaro It is estimated that over 100 million women and girls are ‘missing’ from the global population as a result of gender-based oppression. Issues ranging from sex trafficking to maternal mortality, place not only a disproportionate burden on developing […]

Summers versus Mankiw: How to Recover the Economy

Northeastern’s School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs is hosting an Open Classrooms series on “Policy Advice to the President.” The series is in debate format, two experts in a specific field give separate responses to a posed question, and field questions from the audience. Commencing the season’s series was Larry Summers and Greg Mankiw, […]

Reflections on General David D. McKiernan’s September 20th Address

When retired General David D. McKiernan thanked faculty and students for giving up a Friday evening to join him in Northeastern University’s packed Raytheon Amphitheater, no one mentioned it was Thursday.  Former commander of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan, as well as leader of all ground forces during the 2002-2003 Operation Iraqi Freedom, Gen. […]