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Here you will find information about the University's preferred travel vendors and resources to make planning your trip convenient, secure, and cost effective.
Students who wish to move beyond the confines of the traditional classroom will spend an exciting year of field and laboratory studies at three very different locations in the United States and the South Pacific. The Three Seas Program is ideal for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students eager to broaden their knowledge of marine science. Our program has a strong research focus,...
The Regional Interpreter Education Center at Northeastern University (NURIEC) is funded by the Interpreter Training Program grant from the US Department of Education Rehabilitation Services Administration.
Welcome to the Ethics Institute at Northeastern University. On this site you will find information about upcoming events, Institute programs, and ethics education and research at Northeastern University.
The World Languages Center (WLC) is a cooperative venture between the College of Social Sciences & Humanities and the College of Professional Studies. As Northeastern University continues to become more globally engaged and integrated, the study of languages becomes significantly more valued and more important to the success of our students.
The mission of the Brudnick Center for the Study of Violence and Conflict at Northeastern University is to seek solutions to problems of hostility and hatred based on group differences.
Northeastern University CTCN is one of the only nine Centers of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence (CCNE) across the country that has been awarded with a five-year, $13.5 million grant from the NCI Alliance in an open nationwide competition. Building upon Northeastern’s strong base of interdisciplinary nanotechnology research, the center will create new drugs that target cancer cells,...
The Asian Studies major at Northeastern provides students with a comprehensive understanding of the national, regional and local cultures of the fastest developing area of the world. Spread across nine departments and programs, its courses focus on the histories, cultures, and politics of important nation-states in Asia while also revealing the ways that their various cultures interact with one...
The Center for Labor Market Studies is an applied research, evaluation, and policy-oriented technical assistance unit located within the Department of Economics of Northeastern University. It was initially established in 1979 to provide regional leadership for a three year grant that the Economics Department had received from the U.S. Department of Labor under the Institutional Grant Program.
Healthy Kids, Healthy Futures (HKHF) aims to prevent childhood obesity where young children live, learn, and play. To address early childhood obesity and to reverse a future for poor health among Boston’s children, HKHF partners with Boston Head Start & Children’s Services and the City of Boston’s Boston Centers for Youth & Families (BCYF) to provide programming,...
Massachusetts EPFP is a professional development program for individuals in education and human services who seek to enhance their leadership and public policy knowledge and skills.
A website developed for the Linguistics Program at Northeastern University. The website provides information about the field of linguistics, the program's faculty, undergraduate degrees in linguistics that are possible at NU, and the specific courses that are offered.
The National Center collaborates with five Regional Interpreter Education Centers, providing leadership, coordination, needs assessment, and professional development supports and services in a national effort to enhance communication access for Deaf, Deaf-Blind, and Hearing communities interacting with one another. We are charged with coordinating the interpreting education activities of the...
This website provides information about all of the web related resources available to Northeastern faculty, staff and academic groups.
The Dietary Assessment Center (DAC) is located in the Department of Health Sciences at Northeastern University. DAC provides data collection, processing, development and interpretation of dietary intake data. Dr. Katherine L. Tucker, Professor and Chair of Health Sciences is the director. The center has research staff highly skilled in providing unique, specialized dietary assessment services.
The CIETL mission is to engage the entire campus community in a learner centered culture, and provide leadership in design, delivery and assessment of teaching.
This website was designed for Northeastern University's celebration of the National Day on Writing! Northeastern University joined schools, universities, and communities across the country in marking October 20th, 2009 as a commemoration of the integral role that writing plays in the lives of all citizens. This website includes information about various campus activities that were planned for the...
The Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing is focused on developing tools and processes that will enable high-rate/high-volume bottom-up, precise, parallel assembly of nanoelements (such as carbon nanotubes, nanoparticles, etc.) and polymer nanostructures. The center nanotemplates are utilized to conduct fast massive directed assembly of nanoscale elements by controlling the forces required to...
While there is much debate about whether or not leadership can be taught, there is no doubt that it can be learned, and Northeastern University's Leadership and Public Life is dedicated to that learning. Our programs serve public servants, aspiring public servants, and all those active in our communities and committed to 'Community.' A 'thoughtful action tank' rather than a 'think tank,' we are...
Law, Policy and Society is an interdisciplinary program that offers the Ph.D., M.S., and JD/MS degrees. It prepares students for careers in research, teaching, government, non-profit, or legal institutions. LPS examines law, legal institutions, and public policy from an interdisciplinary social science perspective. The curriculum incorporates a wide range of theoretical perspectives and research...
Welcome to the relaunched website for the Kitty and Michael Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy. The Dukakis Center conducts interdisciplinary research, in collaboration with civic leaders and scholars both within and beyond Northeastern University, to identify and implement real solutions to the critical challenges facing urban areas throughout Greater Boston, the Commonwealth, and the...
The Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ) conducts research and supports policy initiatives on anti-civil rights violence in the United States and other miscarriages of justice of that period. Located at Northeastern University School of Law, CRRJ serves as a resource for scholars, policymakers, and organizers involved in various initiatives seeking justice for crimes of the civil...
Northeastern's College of Business Administration (CBA), has undertaken an innovative approach to developing a new generation of socially responsible business leaders. While traditional classroom and cooperative education programs provide students with a powerful foundation upon which to build successful business careers, the new Social Enterprise Institute (SEI) provides interested students with...
The mission of the Environmental Cancer Research Program (ECRP) is to help defeat cancer by fighting environmental carcinogens. The ECRP seeks to develop and apply tests that discover, measure and characterize carcinogens, including the pathways for their toxicity. The tests will find carcinogens no matter where they are, but will especially look for them in the worst place, which is on the DNA...
The Communications and Digital Signal Processing (CDSP) Center is the focus for research and graduate education in the areas of communications, signal processing, and control systems at Northeastern University. An EdTech Template was used to enhance the CDSP's web presence and ease of maintenance.
The Research Committee for Comparative Judicial Studies promotes scholarly work on law, courts, and judicial processes from a comparative perspective and seeks to bring the study of the various dimensions of judicial systems within the mainstream of comparative political research. Their purpose is to promote scholarly work on law, courts, and judicial processes from a comparative perspective, i....
Regional professional organization chaired by by NU faculty the brings together political scientists from all over New England, as well as from across the nation and Canada. NEPSA sponsors the New England Journal of Political Science.
The Domestic Violence Institute (DVI) at Northeastern University School of Law is an education, service and research organization dedicated to combating partner abuse. DVI educates professionals in a variety of disciplines about violent relationships and about interventions that can make women and their children safer from violence. It provides advocacy services to women in abusive relationships...
The interests of Professor Beuning's lab are to understand cellular responses to genotoxic stress. All organisms experience damage to their genetic material from environmental and endogenous sources. Multiple redundant systems exist to identify and remove damaged bases from DNA in organisms from bacteria to humans. For example, the bacterial SOS response, involving the upregulation of at least 40...
The Staff Council will represent all administrative/support staff members of Northeastern University, advocating for members cooperatively and collegially. The Staff Council will act as liaison for administrative/supports staff and Director of Human Resources Management/appropriate upper management personnel, recommending procedural changes and suggestions to Human Resource Management. We will...
The Center for Labor Market Studies (CLMS) is an applied research, evaluation, and policy-oriented technical assistance unit located within the Department of Economics at Northeastern University. Lacking a Web presence, the CLMS decided to participate in the EdTech Center's template program to distribute general information about the Center as well as downloadable reports and presentations.
Through the template program the Middle East Center has updated their web presence to reflect their mission of fostering peace and advancing cooperation in the Middle East. The website highlights their existing partnerships and programs throughout the region. A web-based content management tool provides a quick and simple way for the Center to maintain their content.
Hillel is the center of Jewish life on campus. The organization's Web site provides information students need to get involved with Jews of every background and denomination in an open and free exchange of thoughts and ideas. Upcoming events are easily kept up to date with the EdTech content management tool. A calendar is also included.
This website is for the only national training network created to provide no-cost and/or low-cost training to law enforcement and the communities they serve. The RCPI-NE is one of the original institutes that was initially under the auspices of the Boston Police Department and had a variety of law enforcement and community partners. In 2005, RCPI-NE became part of Northeastern University's...
This Web site coordinates NSRG's study of the societal implications of all types of nanotechnology research, development, application, and commercialization. The multidisciplinary group is affiliated with the NSF Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing and serves as a partner with the Boston Museum of Science on an array of related outreach and education activities.
Northeastern University is committed to providing support services that enable students with disabilities or who are Deaf or hard of hearing to participate fully in the life of the University community. The fully accessible and standards compliant Disability Resource Center web site offers a number of web-based forms for submitting requests for services, as well as general information regarding...
Redesigned as part of EdTech's 'customized template' project. Each CAS unit received consultation on goals, audience, content, and maintenance. Each site is based on an interface that had been designed previously. Each was then moved quickly through a streamlined development process using existing features and code. Each site included custom web-based content management.
The Northeastern University Honors Program has been providing academic opportunities for engaged and ambitious undergraduates for over 20 years. This website supports and promotes that initiative.
International Affairs is an interdisciplinary major in the College of Arts and Sciences. This site allows visitors to find helpful information about the programs, as well as timely information about world affairs. One of the highlights of the site is the 'Dialogue of Civilizations Program,' a series of 'global student exchanges' between Northeastern students and students around the world.
Serves to inform and recruit potential students into the Professional Master's Degree Program in Biotechnology. It includes information for current and potential students, an events database to keep the community informed of local BioTech related events, and highlights focusing on faculty research.

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