Innovative Teachers
- Penny J. Beuning, assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology has received an NSF CAREER award and was named a 2009 Cottrell Scholar. Beuning is the first faculty member to receive this latter honor, which awards early-career scientists support to further research and teaching. These awards further Beuning's work in understanding cellular responses to genotoxic stress and in studying DNA damage recognition and tolerance.
- Michael S. Dukakis, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, is better known as the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee in 1988. Dukakis, a Northeastern professor since 1991, rarely lectures in the traditional sense, expecting his students to come to class prepared for discussion about current issues and case studies. In his state and local government course, students must write a report on a local government, including an analysis of a controversial local issues and their recommendations on how to resolve it.
- Emmett Price, chair of the African-American studies department and associate professor of Music is currently a research fellow of Northeastern University's Center for the Study of Sport in Society. Author of HIP HOP Culture, executive editor of the Encyclopedia of African American Music, and editor of The Black Church, Hip Hop Culture and the Dilemma of the Generational Divide.
- William Dickens, distinguished professor, economics and social policy in an internationally renowned expert in labor markets, wage determination, unemployment, monetary policy, inner-city employment problems, effects of trade on employment and wages, poverty, income support, intelligence testing and psychology and economics.