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<title><![CDATA[Mucin found as barrier to pancreatic cancer drug ]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0109/campbellpancreaticca.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Current treatments for pancreatic cancer have failed to effectively manage the disease and improve the grim survival rate. A Northeastern University study found that the thick layer of mucin covering the tumor cells acts as a barrier to chemotherapy drugs, thus it is responsible for the diminished anti-tumor effect of popular treatment drugs such as 5-FU (fluorouracil).]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern Community Honors Martin Luther King, Jr.]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0109/mlkconvocation.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Today, the Northeastern community honored the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. during the annual convocation ceremony. Events included guest speakers and cultural performances.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Renowned Northeastern University Artist to Debut UNIFORM]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0109/uniform.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[A novel series of larger-than-life-size drawings in black and white titled UNIFORM by celebrated artist and Northeastern University professor Mira Cantor explores the men and women in blue. From January 15 through March 27, UNIFORM will be shown at the Moakley Federal Courthouse in Boston. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Mobile marketing; the new marketing paradigm]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0109/cell_phones.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Professors help marketers take advantage of customers' unprecedented attachment to their cell phones and provide value-added services they would welcome into their private domain.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Standout graduate leads Northeastern program on addressing urban issues]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0109/michael_lake.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[A diversity of knowledge and culture pieced together from intentionally varied co-op and internship experiences as an undergraduate at Northeastern have prepared Michael Lake for his role as the executive director of the World Class Cities Partnership (WCCP), a new project of Northeastern’s School of Social Science, Urban Affairs and Public Policy aimed toward building relationships with corporate, government and university partners around the world.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Professor pays homage to his family with live jazz CD]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0109/Leonard_Brown.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[The soothing elegance of sound emanating from professor Leonard Brown’s saxophone could not be heard in club halls for more than 10 years. But an interest in reviving his career as a jazz saxophonist and the opportunity to play at the Bohemian Caverns—the oldest jazz club in Washington DC, owned by his sons Omrao, a Northeastern alumnus, and Sashi—combined to re-ignite his passion for sharing music he created as far back as the 1960s.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA["Legacy" at Gallery 360]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0109/legacy.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[The African-American Master Artists in Residence at Northeastern are 13 visual artists who work in different media, have widely differing styles, and come to their art from different backgrounds. But all of them are storytellers who seek to relate some part of the same ever-evolving narrative, that of the African diaspora.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern Wins Multi-million Dollar Grant to Develop Critical Infrastructure Sensing Technology]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0109/NIST_VOTERS_Grant.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern has been awarded a $9 million federal research grant to develop new multi-sensor technology systems for cars and trucks that will allow for real-time assessment of road and bridge infrastructure across the country. Northeastern will lead the five-year VOTERS (Versatile Onboard Traffic Embedded Roaming Sensors) project along with a range of government, industry, and academic partners. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Engineering professor wins prestigious Presidential Early Career Award]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0109/Early_career_award.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Electrical and computer engineering assistant professor Purnima Ratilal was selected by the Department of Defense as a winner of the 2007 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the nation’s most esteemed prize honoring cutting-edge independent scientific research conducted by young faculty members. In support of her research, Ratilal will receive $200,000 per year for five years from the DoD.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Announces 3rd Open Classroom Policy Series]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0109/Open_Classroom.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[How do we grow the economy and provide equal opportunity in America? Northeastern University again invites the community to participate in a new series of classes taught through the innovative Open Classroom Policy Series, which will engage an exciting lineup of experts to explore these challenges and innovative solutions. Beginning January 7, it will feature notable guest speakers and intellectually stimulating dialogue on Wednesday nights throughout the spring semester.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern Report Shows Surge in Homicides Involving Young Black Males and Guns]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0109/Fox_Swatt_Homicide_R.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Between 2002 and 2007, the number of homicides involving black male juveniles as victims grew by 31% and, as perpetrators, by 43%. The numbers escalate even more within the same group when guns were used as weapons, with increases of 54% for victims and 47% for perpetrators.&nbsp; ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Professor’s award-winning book brings human rights home]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/1208/Martha_Davis.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Asked to consider what knits her work and experiences together, just as her latest three-volume book “Bringing Human Rights Home” picks up a major award from the Myers Center, School of Law professor Martha Davis reflects on the words of FDR and the creation of The New Deal.<br>“FDR articulated concepts, and the one that really resonates with me is ‘freedom from want.’ I would say that this concept, and the idea that we all deserve social and economic rights, to things like health care, and paid family leave, are ideals that motivate me.”<br>]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Weather Alert to the Northeastern Community]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/1208/Weather_Alert.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Due to the inclement weather, we are announcing schedule changes for today, December 19th: <br>All undergraduate day final exams will be completed today as planned. Students who&nbsp;have been contacted by the Registrar's Office regarding adjustments to the time and location of their exams should follow the instructions they have received.<br>The University campus will remain open although managers and supervisors may release staff at their discretion beginning at 1:00pm.<br>The Curry Student Center will remain open until 11:00pm and the food court will be serving until 7:00pm. The Marino Center will be open until 9:00pm.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Local retailer hears ‘Fab Four’ business plans]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/1208/TJX.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Ray Kinnunen loves to recount how “they all laughed” when he first thought up the plan to teach 18-year-olds how to write business plans for real companies.<br>Looking back on another year of successful business plan creation with TJX Companies, a discount retailer of apparel and home fashions, he chuckles at how well its gone.<br>“We’ve been doing this for three years with TJX, and it keeps getting better,” says Kinnunen, known as “Coach K” to his students. “Our class is unique. First of all, how many classes exist that open up lines of communications between freshmen and senior level executives in the real world?<br>]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ROTC sees 60 percent jump in enrollment]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/1208/ROTC.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[The number of cadets enrolled in the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps at Northeastern has jumped more than 60 percent over the past year. ROTC’s Liberty Battalion headquartered&nbsp;on campus&nbsp;produces one of the largest groups of army officers.&nbsp;The skyrocketing enrollment can be attributed to the greater number of scholarships available from Congress and the program’s ability to build leadership qualities.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Biologist Finds Link Between “Bloodless” Icefish of Antarctica and Anemia and Osteoporosis]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/1208/Icefish.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[New research by Northeastern University&nbsp;Professor William Detrich&nbsp;argues that Antarctic icefish are "evolutionary mutant models" that hold important clues for understanding, and eventually treating, human diseases including osteoporosis and anemia. The success of the project studying the mineralization of the icefish skeleton as a model for osteopenia (low bone density) and osteoporosis (the disease that results from osteopenia) prompted the National Institutes of Health to fund further studies with a $2.48 million grant.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Visiting Ghanaian scholars to return home with new insights]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/1208/ghanian_scholars.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Three Ghanaian scholars spent three months at Northeastern University making connections to worlds thus far unavailable to them, in sectors such as innovation, entrepreneurship and business, before preparing to leave Northeastern’s campus with renewed hope for the future of their African university.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[President Aoun argues for sustainable global partnerships during China-India conference]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/1208/Presidents_panel.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA["We live in a period of knowledge explosion,” said President Aoun on a panel of local university presidents examining the state of global R&amp;D partnerships. “No university and no country is self-sufficient—we need to establish sustainable global partnerships to address today’s societal problems.” President Aoun also noted that the most exciting discoveries are happening at the intersection of fields and argued&nbsp;for significant focus on “translational research.” ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Engineering students partner with Greek firm to invent robotized cleaning system for solar panels]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/1208/Solar_Panels1.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[A group of Northeastern University mechanical and industrial engineering students have designed a groundbreaking, robotic cleaning system for solar panels that has been submitted for a patent. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Law students score second in national moot court competition ]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/1208/Moot_Court_contest.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[A team of three Northeastern law students were awarded second place at the 17th Annual National Health Law Moot Court competition in southern Illinois. It was the first time a team from Northeastern participated in the contest, which involved 34 teams from 25 law schools across the country.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Health Careers Academy at Northeastern Ranked in Top 10 Percent of American High Schools&nbsp;by U.S. News &amp; World Report]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/1208/Health_Careers_Acade.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[The Health Careers Academy (HCa), housed on Northeastern University’s Boston campus, was recognized as a top high school by <i>U.S. News &amp; World Report</i> in their 2009 America’s Best High Schools rankings.&nbsp; More than 21,000 public high schools in 48 states were evaluated this year, and as a bronze medal award winner, HCa is ranked in the top 10% of American high schools. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Water gods - students design plumbing systems for Honduras villagers]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/1208/Engineers_without_bo.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[A&nbsp;team of students from Northeastern’s chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB-NEU) traveled to the village of El Chaguite, Honduras, to evaluate the existing water system and design a&nbsp;new, fully functional distribution system for the rapidly expanding community.&nbsp;Recognized as&nbsp; “Project of the Month” by Engineers Without Borders USA, the students will travel to El Chaguite this month to start construction, and will finish the project with installing personal taps in all homes and building a storage tank next spring.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern Receives Grant from National Institute of Justice to Study Careers of Police Officers]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/1208/McDevitt_NIJ_Police_.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Two Northeastern University researchers have been&nbsp;chosen to lead a major component of a $1.9 million federal grant&nbsp;to study police officers' careers.&nbsp; Jack McDevitt, Ph.D., Associate Dean for Graduate and Research at Northeastern’s College of Criminal Justice and director of the Institute on Race and Justice, and Amy Farrell, Ph.D., assistant professor for the College of Criminal Justice, will play a fundamental role in the National Police Platform Project, which&nbsp;will measure the careers of new officers and supervisors during a three-year pilot study in three major cities and several smaller communities across the country.&nbsp; ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Researcher Finds Early Photon Imaging Detects Lung Cancer]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/1208/Lung_Cancer.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[A novel, high-resolution fluorescence imagining system may be used to detect lung cancer at early stages. According to a report recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, lead author Mark Niedre, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University has developed a way to use near-infrared light in molecular imaging to peer deep into the body's diseased cells and tissues. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Pedal pusher]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/1208/Peter_Furth.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA["There is nothing better than arriving to work red-faced from the wind, lungs and heart pumping, and blood flowing with vitality," says Professor Peter Furth, a bike enthusiast who - along with his like-minded civil engineering students - is working on research projects for&nbsp;Boston hoping that the city will adapt more bike paths into its infrastructure.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[President stresses opportunity during economic downturn]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/1208/Faculty_Senate.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[In his annual talk to the Faculty Senate, Northeastern President Joseph Aoun&nbsp; reaffirmed his belief that the current financial crisis presents opportunities for innovation and that Northeastern is uniquely positioned to make changes while maintaining its core values. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Physicist recognized for pioneering contributions to interdisciplinary science]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/1208/Barabasi_NEC_Award.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern physicist Albert-László Barabási has joined a long list of award winners credited with historic contributions&nbsp;to science, such as creating the World Wide Web. Professor Barabási is celebrated this year by the NEC C&amp;C Foundation of Japan for contributions to R&amp;D activities and pioneering works related to the integration of computers and communications technologies and the social impact of developments in these fields.&nbsp;His award recognizes stimulating innovative research on networks and discovering that the scale-free property is a common feature of various real-world complex networks, and acknowledges that his research in this area represents a paradigm change in our understanding of complex systems. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern Professor Studies Limited Literacy and Mental Health Outcomes]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/1208/Lincoln_Mental_Healt.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Alisa Lincoln, Ph.D., M.P.H., associate professor of health sciences and sociology at Northesatern, recently completed one of the first studies of its kind on the role of literacy and mental health. While much attention has been focused on the role of literacy and health, little is known about the relationship between literacy and mental health. This study was designed to assess the literacy level of people seeking treatment for a full range of psychiatric disorders with the hopes of better understanding the relationship between literacy and mental health outcomes.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[University pivotal in bringing astronaut’s STEM program to local school]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/1108/Bernard_harris_STEM.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[The first African-American astronaut to walk in space and the mayor of the City of Boston may not sound as though they have a lot in common. But last week, before 600 students, they formed a solid front to encourage students to dream big and apply themselves in science and math.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Pharmacy, MBA alumnus offers view from a top office]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/1108/condella.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern alumnus Frank Condella traveled from London to his old campus last week to describe the professional doors that opened to him in international pharmaceuticals after he earned his pharmacy degree in 1977 and his master of business administration in 1984.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Husky women in CAA volleyball final]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/1108/Women_athletics.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[During a season showcasing Husky women’s athletic prowess, the Northeastern volleyball team advanced to the Colonial Athletic League championship game Monday night.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Husky goalie gets national recognition]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/1108/Florence_schelling.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[What does Northeastern women’s hockey standout Florence Schelling have in common with sports superstars Tiger Woods, Paul Pierce and Ben Roethlisberger? Each has been featured in Sports Illustrated’s “Faces in the Crowd."]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Researcher finds first ever evidence of natural disease resistance in corals]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/1108/Coral_disease.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[In recent years, tropical coral reefs have become drastically altered by disease epidemics.&nbsp; In a new study, Steven V. Vollmer, assistant professor of biology at the Marine Science Center at Northeastern,&nbsp;discovered for the first time&nbsp;that acroporid corals listed on the US Endangered Species List due to epidemics of White Band Disease can naturally resist the disease. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern Law Dean Named to Obama Transition Team]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/1108/Spieler_named_to_Oba.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Law Dean Emily Spieler has been named to President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team.<br><br>Spieler, dean of the School of Law since 2002, will serve on the team reviewing the Department of Labor, until shortly before the Jan. 20 inauguration.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Robotics projects for stroke rehab receive major federal grants]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/1108/Mavroidis_NSF_Grants.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Breakthrough robotic technology from Northeastern University has once again received funding from the National Science Foundation. Two inventions for stroke rehabilitation by engineering professor Constantinos Mavroidis and his team will be funded over the next three years with the amount totaling more than $1 million. In partnership with Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital’s Motion Analysis Laboratory, Northeastern’s Robotics and Mechatronics Laboratory will develop the Robotic Gait Rehabilitation (RGR) Trainer and the Active Knee Rehabilitation Orthotic Device (AKROD) for rehabilitation of the pelvis and the knee.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University’s Dominic Coryell Wins Top Prize at Global Student Entrepreneur Awards for Husky Express]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/1108/Coryell_GSEA_Award_1.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Dominic Coryell, a senior finance/accounting major at Northeastern University's College of Business Administration, was recognized by the Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO) as the winner of the 2008 Global Student Entrepreneur Awards. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern program to address Boston graduation concern]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/1108/Menino_press_confere.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino, Northeastern University President Joseph E. Aoun and Boston School Superintendent Carol Johnson have announced the launch of an innovative partnership to give Boston public high school graduates a solid preparation for college or the workplace. The pilot program, to begin in fall 2009, will give Boston public high school graduates a rigorously academic first-year college experience, combined with assistance in strengthening academic, social, and employment skills.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern CEO Breakfast: "More flex-time helps retain talent"]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/1108/Pitney_Bowes_CEO_Bre.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Speaking at Northeastern University’s CEO Breakfast, Murray Martin, CEO of Pitney Bowes, said employees who are offered greater flexibility become more engaged with their jobs, more productive and healthier. <br><br>“Personally, I don’t hide the fact that my family is important to me,” said Murray Martin, chief executive officer of Pitney Bowes Inc. “I don’t work on weekends.”]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Husky mountain bikers earn recognition on national stage]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/1008/Mountain_bikers.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA["Our team attracts some of the University’s best students,” said Pat Saunders, President of Northeastern Cycling and senior neuroscience major. “We all have a mutual love for the sport and we’ve made the best friends we ever will in college from being part of the team. We have really intelligent people and fast riders committed to racing their bikes."]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[CURP naming to honor work of Professor Dukakis and wife]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/1008/Dukakis_event.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern’s Center for Urban and Regional Policy will take the name of Massachusetts’ longest-serving governor and his wife. The research and policy “think and do tank” will be known as the Kitty and Michael Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy, or in short The Dukakis Center. Kitty and Michael Dukakis will be honored at a tribute dinner and the governor’s 75<sup>th</sup> birthday celebration Nov. 15 at the Westin Copley Hotel with 1,000 expected to attend.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Scientist Publishes Findings on Marine Biodiversity]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/1008/Biodiversity.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Marine scientists have grown increasingly concerned over the loss of
marine biodiversity and the need to understand the consequences of
these changes has become vital.&nbsp; Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences (PNAS) has published the findings of a study using seaweed
species richness co-authored by Matthew Bracken, assistant professor of
biology at the Marine Science Center at Northeastern University.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Physicists Create Assembly Technique for Carbon Nanotubes]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/1008/Sridhar%20SWNT%20Nanotechnology.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Srinivas Sridhar, Ph.D., distinguished professor and chair of Physics at Northeastern University, Evin Gultepe and their team of researchers from the university’s Electronic Materials Research Institute have demonstrated a technique to assemble single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNT) into three-dimensional structures. This technique will be useful for the large scale, accelerated assembly of SWNTs at room temperature, which is more suitable for nanoscale electronic applications, such as flat panel displays and electronic memory devices. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University to Inaugurate New Federally-funded Explosives Research Center]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/1008/ALERT_Inauguration.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern University will inaugurate the Center for Awareness and Localization of Explosives-Related Threats (ALERT) on Thursday, October 30, 2008. ALERT, a new research Center of Excellence for Explosives Detection, Mitigation &amp; Response, is funded by the Department of Homeland Security.&nbsp; ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[New Research: Advanced Methodology to Evaluate Protein-Protein Interactions of Cells, Creating High-Quality Interaction Map]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/1008/Barabasi_Science_Mag.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Proteins make up the machinery of the cell. Their interaction with each other is responsible for how the cell functions within a living organism. Intrigued by what these interactions may look like, scientists have been working to map networks of physical DNA-, RNA-, and protein-protein interactions. Northeastern University physicist Albert-László Barabási, in collaboration with a research team lead by Marc Vidal from Dana Farber Cancer Institute, carried out a comparative quality assessment of binary interactions (see image) using the yeast S. cerevisiae as a model system.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Receives $100,000 Grand Challenges Exploration Grant for Innovative Global Health Research by Professor Kim Lewis]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/1008/Gates_GCE_Grant.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern University announced today that it has received a $100,000 Grand Challenges Explorations grant from the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation. The grant will support an innovative global health research project conducted by Kim Lewis, director of the Antimicrobial Discovery Center, titled “"Targeted Capture of Latent M. Tuberculosis Cells from a Mammalian Host.” Dr. Lewis’ research proposes a straightforward method to make latent M. tuberculosis cells stand out from the rest of the population, which will enable their observation, capture and study. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern’s Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Nanomedicine Receives $1.5M NIH Grant to Examine Drug Delivery]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/1008/Torchilin_Nanocarrie.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Vladimir Torchilin, Ph.D., professor and chair of the department of pharmaceutical sciences at Northeastern University’s Bouvé College of Health Sciences, was recently awarded a 5-year, $1.54 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National Cancer Institute to investigate ways to increase the efficacy of nanocarrier-based pharmaceuticals for drug and gene therapy. Many pharmaceutical agents, such as drugs or DNA, need to enter the cell to carry out their therapeutic properties, and this study will address the challenges of getting these agents into the cell and reaching the target once inside.&nbsp; ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Camp David: 30 Years Later - Northeastern Hosted&nbsp;Discussion as Part of Program on Middle East]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/1008/Camp_David.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[As part of a larger series of films, lectures and discussions on the Middle East titled "The Middle East: Focus on Israel and Palestine," Northeastern University hosted Rami George Khouri and Yorman Meital's talk on the 1978 Camp David accords. This event, titled <i>Camp David: 30 Years Later</i>&nbsp;was presented by Cinema Studies, Middle East Studies Program, Middle East Center for Peace, Culture and Development, Jewish Studies Program and the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies at Northeastern. The next event will take place on October 30th&nbsp;Northeastern will welcome its community and the public to watch <EM  >Kippur</em>, a movie set in 1973 during the Yom Kippur War in which Egypt and Syria launched attacks in Sinai and the Golan Heights.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Hosts Second Annual Health Fair to Promote Healthy Living ]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/1008/Bouve_Health_Fair_20.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern University will host the second annual Bouvé Health Fair and Flu Clinic to provide students and local community members with health-related services and information on healthy living and to raise cancer and disease awareness. In addition to free flu shots offered by the University Health and Counseling Services and the Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC), the day’s events include free bone density and cholesterol tests and blood pressure screenings, a chance to ask questions about medications and a blood drive hosted by Brigham and Women’s Hospital.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern Receives NSF Grant to Study Self-Efficacy and Retention of Female Undergraduate Engineering Students ]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/1008/Reisberg_Pathways_Gr.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern University’s College of Engineering is the co-recipient of a $499,990 three-year National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to study how cooperative education and related on-the-job experiences affect female undergraduate engineering students.&nbsp; Working with colleagues at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), Virginia Polytechnic Institute &amp; State University (VT) and the University of Wyoming (UW), the research team will investigate the hypothesis that women in formal engineering programs who participate in work related to their field of study during their undergraduate studies have higher self-efficacy and are more likely to graduate with a degree in their chosen field.&nbsp; ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern Hosts Author Dr. Ruth Nemzoff as part of Library Series]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/1008/Ruth_Nemzoff.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern University’s “Meet the Author” series welcomes author and educator Dr. Ruth Nemzoff. Nemzoff will discuss her guide, <i>Don’t Bite Your Tongue, </i>which offers strategies for parents on maintaining close relationships with their grown children. To have a rewarding relationship, Nemzoff says parents must become an active part of their children’s lives while still respecting them enough to make their own choices. Nemzoff comes to Northeastern as part of Parents’ Weekend Programming. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Represented at Fulbright Annual Conference in Beijing, China]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/1008/Fulbright_Conference.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Two Northeastern University professors will travel to Beijing, China to
participate in the Fulbright Association’s 31st annual conference.&nbsp;
Titled “2008—The Interconnected World,” the conference theme will
explore the ways in which the arts link us as an international
community.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Honored for Commitment to Diversity]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/1008/Diversity_award.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern University’s ongoing commitment to having a diverse faculty, staff and student population was recently recognized with an award, granted by Minority Access, Inc., a national educational organization that implements programs and supports efforts to improve the higher educational, professional and managerial employment of minorities.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern Professor Visits Liberia to Promote Awareness of Gender-Based Violence]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/1008/Chandler_Liberia.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Through a grant from the Office of the Provost at Northeastern University, Dr. Robin Chandler, Associate Professor of African American Studies, recently traveled to Liberia to conduct research on the incidence of gender-based violence in the country. By meeting with Liberian women’s groups, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), religious leaders and government officials in Liberia, Chandler said she hoped to encourage and support Liberia’s efforts to create a system equipped to handle the victims of gender-based violence and to develop a judicial system that prosecutes those who commit acts of such crimes. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University to Unveil Gallery 360<br>]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/1008/Gallery_360.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern University will make its presence known in the art
community on October 9, with the debut of the University's exciting new
art gallery, Gallery 360. The gallery will complement the University's
“Northeastern Creates” initiative, which celebrates and promotes
creative expression throughout the campus.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Career Services Wins GE Partnership Award]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/1008/GE_Partnership_Award.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern University Career Services has been awarded this year’s
General Electric (GE) Partnership Award. The award recognizes
Northeastern University as an ongoing and significant resource for
professional talent at GE. The University has also been distinguished
as one of GE’s top 40 Executive schools because of Northeastern’s
crucial role in the success of its mission and leadership in the global
marketplace. GE has greatly benefited from Northeastern University
co-op students and graduates alike, and on October 2, the University
held its fall Mega Career Fair.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern’s Institute on Race and Justice Receives Federal Grant to Continue Tracking Cases of Human Trafficking]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/1008/IRJ_Human_Traffickin.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) has just extended funding for the national human trafficking reporting system (HTRS), an initiative led by Amy Farrell, Ph.D. and Jack McDevitt, Ph.D., both from Northeastern University’s Institute on Race &amp; Justice.&nbsp; The funding, a $300,000 grant, will allow for the continuation and expansion of the HTRS, established in January 2008 by researchers at both Northeastern and the Urban Institute as a way to centrally and uniformly collect data on human trafficking investigations.&nbsp;&nbsp;]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Scientists Discover Method to Produce Better Drugs for Parkinson's, Cancer, and Other Diseases]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/1008/Tetrahedron_Letters.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Researchers Graham Jones, Michail Sitkovsky, Amy Kallmerten and Ma Dong&nbsp;created a rapid method to produce an important faculty of drugs, including drugs to treat Parkinson’s disease and cancer. The efficient and versatile process gives access to new medicinal agents by combining molecules that are important building blocks in creating unique compounds. The paper describing the breakthrough method of synthesis of the new drugs, which are designed to be combined with the traditionally used Parkinson’s disease treatment drug Levodopa, appeared in the latest issue of <i>Tetrahedron Letters.</i>]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern's School of Law Named Tops in Public Interest Law]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0908/Law_School.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern University’s School of Law today was named the top law school in the country in the area of public interest law by two publications in the legal field. The law school was selected for the first place ranking by two sister publications, <i>The National Jurist </i>and <i>preLaw Magazine</i>, a national magazine targeted to prospective law school students. The story will appear in the fall issues of the two publications. Northeastern was the only law school in New England to make the top 10 list.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Leading Bioanalytical Research Institute to Open New Advanced Regulatory Analysis Center]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0908/Barnett_gift.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[The Barnett Institute of Chemical and Biological Analysis has received a generous leadership gift from Louis Barnett B’44, H’77, and his family. The $3 million donation includes a $1 million challenge grant from the family whose 1983 endowment gift is responsible for the name of the internationally recognized research Institute. The gift will help launch the new Center for Advanced Regulatory Analysis (CARA), including the GMP/GLP (Good Manufacturing Practices/Good Laboratory Practices) Regulatory Laboratory. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern Appoints Two Senior Executives as Sr. VP of External Affairs and VP of Marketing and Communications]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0908/Senior_Appointments.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern University has appointed two senior executives who will build on the university’s strong momentum as a national research university.&nbsp;Carol Scheman will be the university’s new senior vice president for external affairs, and Michael Armini will be vice president for marketing and communications.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Launches First Amendment Center ]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0908/First_Amendment_Cent.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern University, in partnership with journalists and public policy advocates throughout New England, has announced the establishment of the New England First Amendment Center to focus public attention on a worrisome increase in efforts to restrict access to public records and meetings.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern and IBM Invites Students to Play Wii, Win, and Get to Know IBM]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0908/IBM_Wii_Event.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[NU students are invited to play the popular Nintendo® Wii™ game as part of a two-day (9/23 and 9/25)&nbsp;event sponsored by IBM, maker of the chip inside the video game console. The IBM Wii Campus Event’s goal is to allow Northeastern students to better understand some of the innovative and creative aspects of IBM. As part of each event, sports-themed games displayed on a large screen will be available to play at the Library Quad on campus. The second day of the event will conclude with a raffle where a lucky student will have an opportunity to win a Nintendo® Wii™ video game console.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern Student to Compete in Global Entrepreneur Competition]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0908/Husky_Express_Coryel.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[When Dominic Coryell began driving a delivery truck for Husky Express to make some extra cash his freshman year, little did he know how that job would impact his future and lead him to becoming a young, successful entrepreneur.&nbsp;&nbsp;Coryell was selected as one of 30 students worldwide for his work with Husky Express by the Entrepreneurs’ Organization. In November, Coryell will be in Chicago with other student entrepreneurs for the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards with the chance to win more than $100,000 in cash and prizes.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University School of Law Hosts 5th Annual Conference on Public Health, Law and Obesity]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0908/Obesity_conference.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Public health officials, scholars, and legal experts from the U.S. and Europe will join together at Northeastern University on September 19-21 to hammer out recommendations for the nation’s first comprehensive national anti-obesity program as part of the 5th Annual Conference on Public Health, Law and Obesity. The three-day event titled "A Time for Action: An Obesity Agenda for the Next Administration” is organized and hosted by the Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI) of Northeastern University School of Law. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern Chosen as Lead Organization for the Greater North Shore Science Partnership]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0908/GNSSP_Grant.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern University has been chosen by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to lead a new program designed to improve middle school science education. Funded through the Massachusetts Mathematics and Science Partnership Program, the Greater North Shore Science Partnership (GNSSP) is a three-year, $748,356 program between Lynn and Malden Public Schools, UMass Boston, the Education Development Center, Inc. and Northeastern’s Center for STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) Education aimed at providing professional development and support activities to middle school science teachers with the goal of improving student outcomes in science.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Researcher's Multidisciplinary Team Awarded Federal Grant to Study What Makes Humans Trust Each Other]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0908/DeSteno_NSF_grant.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[A multidisciplinary team lead by David DeSteno, Associate Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University, has been awarded a $720,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to investigate what mechanism individuals use to assess the trustworthiness of unfamiliar others. The three-year project will utilize experiments involving both human-human and human-robot social interactions to uncover the microdynamics that underlie trust and cooperation in novel partnerships, which represent opportunities to expand economic and social networks.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Programs Receive Grant to Educate Future Generation of Philanthropists ]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0908/Students4Giving_2008.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern University’s Human Services Program, in collaboration with the university’s Center of Community Services, were selected by Campus Compact and the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund to participate in the 2008-2009 academic year’s Students4Giving program. As part of the program aimed at inspiring and educating future philanthropists, Northeastern will teach students about non-profit organizations and fundraising as part of a series of courses and activities that involve community outreach and partnerships with Boston-area nonprofit organizations. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Novel Class at Northeastern University Offers Advice to the Next President]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0908/Open_Classrooms_2008.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern University invites the community to participate in a new series of classes taught through the innovative Open Classroom Seminar Series which will engage an exciting lineup of experts to explore these challenges and, in turn, speak to how the next president can - or must - tackle them. Beginning September 10, the Open Classroom Seminar Series will feature notable guest speakers and engaging dialogue on Wednesday nights throughout the semester. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Global Dialogue Program to Expand to India]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0908/PACT_India_Dialogue.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Beginning in the spring semester of 2009, Northeastern University students in the International Affairs and Human Services programs will have the chance to participate in a ground-breaking global studies program in India. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Physicists Develop Nano-Optical Lens]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0808/microlens.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Using semiconductor nanotechnology, Srinivas Sridhar, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor and Chair of Physics at Northeastern University, and his team of researchers from the university’s Electronic Materials Research Institute have created a new microlens that focuses infrared light at telecommunication frequencies.&nbsp; The focusing power of this microlens sets a world record for one of the shortest focal lengths ever achieved,&nbsp; focusing the infrared beam to a spot just 12 micrometers away from the surface.&nbsp; This represents an advance in light imaging technology and has the potential to lead to innovations in how current personal electronic devices are manufactured.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Named as one of Top 10 Innovative&nbsp;IT Schools to Watch]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0808/CCIS_Computerworld.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern University’s College of Computer and Information Science (CCIS) has been named as one of the top 10 innovative “IT Schools to Watch” by <i>Computerworld </i>magazine. The ranking recognizes CCIS’ information technology graduate programs, including the Master in Information Assurance and Master in Health Informatics, as well as its Master in Computer Science. The recognition further solidifies Northeastern’s reputation as a national leader in the development of interdisciplinary programs to address critical technology issues in a number of important fields, as well as its strong industry and government partnerships.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[2008 Northeastern University Grad Founds Organization to Provide Health Care for Rockers]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0808/Rock_for_Health.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Musicians in rock bands lead unusual lives; touring around the country and overseas, rehearsing, and performing for thousands of fans. It is no surprise that many insurance companies see these musicians as an "at risk" population. Kristina Grossmann of the Northeastern University graduating class of 2008 has set out to change that with the creation of her organization Rock for Health.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Pharmaceutical Biotech Scientist Discovers New Molecule to Treat Chronic Pain]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0808/MakryannisNewMolecul.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Professor and Center for Drug Discovery director Alexandros Makriyannis and a team of researchers have created a synthetic molecule that could be used to treat chronic pain in patients with diseases such as diabetes or shingles. The findings were published in a recent issue of <i>Psychopharmacology</i> in an article titled “Discriminative stimulus functions in rats of AM1346, a high-affinity CB<sub>1</sub>R selective anandamide analog.”&nbsp;&nbsp;]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Distinguished Northeastern University Professor and Public Health Expert to Participate in Two Health Science Conferences]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0808/Dr._Amaro.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Dr. Hortensia Amaro, Distinguished Professor of Health Sciences and Counseling Psychology in the Bouvé College of Health Sciences at Northeastern University, Associate Dean for Urban Health Research, and Director of the Institute on Urban Health Research, will participate in two health science conferences this month in Boston: the 5th Annual Quantitative Training for Underrepresented Groups and the 116th Annual American Psychological Association conference.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern Researchers Play Key Role in DZero International Physics Research Collaboration]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0808/Wood_ZZ_Diboson.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Darien Wood, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Physics at Northeastern University, and other researchers from Northeastern have played integral roles in the recent discovery of the production of pairs of Z bosons, or ZZ dibosons, at the Tevatron particle accelerator.&nbsp;The properties of the ZZ diboson make its discovery a necessary precursor to determining whether the Higgs boson does indeed exist. The Higgs boson is the only hypothetical particle in the Standard Model of particle physics that has not yet been observed. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Faculty Present and Accounted for at 2008 American Sociological Association Annual Meeting]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0708/ASA_Annual_Meeting.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[The 103rd Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA) will take place this week in Boston and Northeastern University will be participating in myriad capacities. From conducting tours to hosting sections and panels, combined with faculty awards, Northeastern University will have a position of great prominence at this year's ASA meeting.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[2008 Northeastern University Grad Debuts Film at Roxbury Film Festival]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0708/Meagan_Redman.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Few films are lucky enough to be chosen to premier at film festivals and it is an even larger feat when the premiering films are created by college students. Meagan Redman, a 2008 graduate of Northeastern University has defied the odds and will debut her documentary, "Sharpening Our Oyster Knives: Living with HIV/AIDS today" this Saturday, August 2, at the Roxbury Film Festival.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Ranked as Leader in Career and Job Placement Services]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0708/Rankings_Career_Job_.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern University has once again been recognized as a leader in preparing students to build successful careers that start before graduation and continue long after. The University earned the number 1 ranking—driven by student satisfaction—in the Best Career and Job Placement Services category in this year’s edition of <i>The Princeton Review</i>.
Northeastern University’s partnerships with more than 2,500 national and international companies and its century-long history of leadership in experiential learning and cooperative education make the University’s mission to educate students for a life of fulfillment and accomplishment even more timely in the present climate of global economic uncertainty. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Researchers Discover New&nbsp;DNA Binding Activity of E. coli Protein]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0708/Penny_Beuning.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern University scientists have discovered a new and unique DNA binding property of a protein in <i>E. coli</i>. Penny J. Beuning, Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, spent the last two years researching double and single-stranded DNA binding of <i>E. coli</i> DNA polymerase III alpha protein and notes that her findings have potential for developing a new antibacterial target. Beuning's results have recently been published in <i>ACS Chemical Biology</i> in an article titled "Distinct Double- and Single-Stranded DNA Binding of <i>E. coli</i> Replicative DNA Polymerase III Alpha Subunit".]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University to Host Screenings, Panel Discussions during 10th Annual Roxbury Film Festival]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0708/Roxbury_Film_Festiva.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern University will host several events during the 10<sup>th</sup> Annual Roxbury Film Festival. More than 80 films will be showcased during the festival, and several Hollywood guests are expected to attend, including Ruby Dee (2007 Oscar Award Nominee for Best Supporting Actress in “American Gangster”) and Robert Townsend (who appears in “Of Boys and Men,” which will be shown during the film festival).]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Scientists Discover Rapid, Cost-Effective, 100% Recyclable Method to Produce Ultra-Strong Magnets]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0708/Magnet_Samarium_Coba.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern University scientists discovered a revolutionary method for producing Samarium Cobalt rare earth permanent magnet materials. Unlike current industry methods, the invention yields a one-step, cost-effective, 100% recyclable, scalable method to produce ultra-strong magnets that can not only revitalize the permanent magnet industry, but can also bring major changes to several federal and commercial industries.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern Postdoctoral Student Earns a Top Prize at Controlled Release Society Meeting in New York]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0708/Papagainnaros_Poster.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Aristarchos Papagiannaros, Ph.D., postdoctoral student at the Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Nanomedicine at Northeastern University’s Bouvé College of Health Sciences, received an award during the Controlled Release Society’s annual meeting in New York. &nbsp;Out of more than 700 entries in the Highlights of Student Posters competition, Papagiannaros and his colleagues were one of 10 teams chosen to give a presentation about their poster for which they received third prize and a $1,000 cash award.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Three Northeastern Professors Hosting Panel Discussion&nbsp;during Entrepreneurs’ Organization 2008&nbsp;EO University in Boston]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0708/EO_Boston_NU_Hosts_O.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Three Northeastern professors will host a panel discussion&nbsp;during the Entrepreneurs' Organization 2008 EO University in Boston. Ahmed Busnaina, Ph.D., Anthony Di Ritis, M.M., M.B.A., Ph.D., and Tucker Marion, Ph.D., will lead the discussion&nbsp;about technology in the fields of nanotechnology, creative industries and global product development.&nbsp; This will be held at the Alumni Center on Thursday, July 24 from 2-4 p.m.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University's Biotechnology Initiative and Professional Science Master's Degrees Underscored by New Federal Report]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0708/Professional_Science.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[A new report from the National Research Council (NRC) suggests that policymakers, universities, and employers should work together to speed the development of professionally oriented master's degree programs in the natural sciences. Titled, "Science Professionals: Master's Education for a Competitive World," the report underscores Northeastern University's commitment to interdisciplinary science and research through its Biotechnology Initiative and three Professional Science Master's (PSM) Degrees in Bioinformatics, Biotechnology and Marine Biology. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Renowned Economics Scholar William T. Dickens Appointed to Northeastern University Faculty]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0708/William_Dickens.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern University has announced the appointment of William T. Dickens as Distinguished Professor of Economics and Social Policy to the College of Arts &amp; Sciences. Dickens will join the faculty of the School of Social Science, Urban Affairs, &amp; Public Policy in the fall of 2008.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Nanophotonics Research by Northeastern University Physics Professor leads to Nanomanufactured Optical Lenses ]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0708/Nanophotonics_Resear.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Led by Sri Sridhar, Distinguished Professor and Chair of Physics at Northeastern University, a team of researchers from the university’s Electronic Materials Research Institute has published research that has resulted in a new breakthrough in the field of nanophotonics, the study of light at the nanoscale level.&nbsp; Utilizing nanomanufacturing processes, the researchers were able to develop an optical microlens with a step-like surface, instead of a smooth surface, that has the capacity to operate at infrared frequencies using the novel phenomenon of negative index refraction.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Engineering Design Project Helps Launch Startup]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0708/Capstone.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Student projects that attract venture capital money and launch startup companies are rare. A group of Northeastern University students have defied the odds when they helped to invent a biotech instrument that two years later turned into a company. CryoXtract Instruments, LLC, backed by investment firm Allied Minds, Inc., has been launched based on technology invented by Northeastern University students and Harvard Medical School. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Hosting ExxonMobil Bernard Harris Summer Science Program - Media Day Set for July 9, 2008&nbsp;]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0708/Bernard_Harris_Summe.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Forty eight Boston-area middle schoolers&nbsp;will call Northeastern University their home for two weeks this summer when they take part in the ExxonMobil Bernard Harris Summer Science Program.&nbsp; On Wednesday, July 9, the camp will be open to the media, where they&nbsp;can watch the&nbsp;campers&nbsp;meet Dr. Bernard Harris,&nbsp;the first African American astronaut to walk in Space, and build bottle rockets during their space exploration learning experience. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Hosts UniverSoul Circus ]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/06081/Circus.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern University will host UniverSoul Circus from July 1-6. The 15th season's performances in Boston will include 13 shows and feature 12 visually stimulating, interactive and unusual multicultural acts by 75 entertainers from around the world, including Asia, Africa, Europe, New Zealand, South America, and North America, Performing to the Sounds Of Urban America. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Partners with MGH for Innovative Breast Cancer Research]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/06081/Komen_NU_MGH.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern University’s Barnett Institute and Massachusetts General Hospital have announced a $1,266,328 grant from Susan G. Komen for the Cure to carry out a novel breast cancer research project. The joint award brings together leading researchers from both institutions to discover protein biomarkers that can predict which women with benign diagnoses will go on to develop breast cancer, and which will remain cancer free. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[More Boston Public School Valedictorians Choose to Study at Northeastern University ]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/06081/BPS_Valedictorians.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern University is proud to welcome seven valedictorians from the Boston Public Schools Class of 2008. Out of 38 valedictorians that graduated from a Boston Public School, seven – more than any other college or university – have chosen to attend Northeastern University as members of the 111<sup>th</sup> entering class. The new students will be pursuing degrees in a variety of disciplines, including marine science, engineering and business administration.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Postdoctoral Associate Receives Prestigious Award from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/06081/Mulcahy.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Dr. Lawrence Mulcahy of Northeastern University’s Antimicrobial Discovery Center and Department of Biology, has received an esteemed Postdoctoral Fellowship Award from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, the leading organization in the United States devoted to combating Cystic Fibrosis. The award will support Mulcahy's work on multidrug tolerance of pathogen, <i>Pseudomonas aeruginosa</i>. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Best-Selling Author David Kirby&nbsp;to Discuss the Debate between Vaccines and Autism at Northeastern University ]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/06081/Kirby_Autism_Vaccine.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[David Kirby, the New York based investigative journalist and author of the New York Times Best-seller, "Evidence of Harm, Mercury in Vaccines and the Autism Epidemic - A Medical Controversy," will discuss the hotly debated topic of vaccines and autism at Northeastern this Friday, June 27, 2008.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Moral Hypocrisy is Deliberative, Finds Northeastern University Researcher]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/06081/DeSteno.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Moral hypocrisy is an antisocial behavior familiar to most of us in which people tend to judge their own moral transgressions more leniently than the exact same transgressions when committed by others.&nbsp; Yet, until recently, the origin of this bias was not known.&nbsp; Northeastern University researchers Piercarlo Valdesolo and David DeSteno have now found that at heart, the mind is just as sensitive to our own transgressions, but that bias in favor of protecting the self actually grows out of cognitive rationalization processes. The research is discussed in the latest issue of the <i>Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.</i>]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Pharmacy Professor Awarded Clinician of the Year by Harbor Health Services, Inc.]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/06081/HHSI_Robyn_White.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Robyn White, PharmD, Assistant Clinical Professor of Pharmacy at the Bouvé College of Health Sciences at Northeastern University, has received the 2007 Harbor Wide Clinician of the Year award for her outstanding service at Harbor Health Services, Inc. (HHSI).&nbsp; Dr. White, a 2006 Northeastern graduate, was selected by her peers for this award for her dedicated patient care services for an elderly service program and a community health center at HHSI.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University’s Institute on Race and Justice Issues Report on Human Trafficking ]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/06081/McDevitt_Farrell_NIJ.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[A team of researchers at Northeastern University’s Institute on Race and Justice, in collaboration with Arizona State University and Sam Houston State University, has issued a report about the incidence of and response to human trafficking in the United States.&nbsp; Lead by principal investigators Assistant Professor Amy Farrell, Ph.D., and Associate Dean Jack McDevitt, the researchers conducted a random survey of law enforcement agencies throughout the United States to better understand how agencies identify and respond to suspected cases of human trafficking.&nbsp;]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Student Recognized as 2008 Steamboat Scholar]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/06081/Steamboat.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern University student Alicia Jones has been recognized as a 2008 Steamboat Scholar by Steamboat Foundation Summer Scholar Program. The grant will allow Jones to work alongside pioneers of innovative cancer treatments at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Hosts 15th International Conference on Cultural Economics]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/06081/ACEI.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern University and the Department of Economics, together with the Association for Cultural Economics International (ACEI) will host the 15th International Conference on Cultural Economics.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Professor Wins Dell Design Educator Award]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/06081/Tucker_Marion_Dell_E.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Tucker Marion, Ph.D., Assistant Professor at Northeastern University’s School of Technological Entrepreneurship (STE), has been awarded a 2008 Dell Design Educator Award. Marion teaches the core STE course for graduate students “Managing a Technology-Based Business” and worked closely with the students to help them develop conceptual designs for Dell’s ReGeneration Competition during this past Spring semester. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University and New England Conservatory Present Boston GuitarFest 2008 ]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/06081/Guitarfest.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Boston GuitarFest is the most exciting and innovative guitar festival to emerge in the new millennium. From June 10 - 15, 2008, the third edition of Boston GuitarFest, a joint production of New England Conservatory and Northeastern University, will feature a dazzling array of events and world renowned performers Angel Romero, Eliot Fisk, and Wu Man, to delight general audiences, amateurs and professionals alike.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Human Mobility is Not Random, Finds Physicist]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/06081/Barabasi_Human_Mobil.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[In a groundbreaking paper published as a cover story in this week’s <i>Nature</i> magazine, Northeastern&nbsp;physicist Professor Albert-László Barabási and his team found that humans can be characterized based on how they move. In the article, titled “Understanding Individual Human Mobility Patterns,” the authors discuss how, for the first time, they were able to follow individuals in real-time and discovered that despite the diversity of their travel history, humans follow simple reproducible patterns.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Supply-chain Professor Receives Fulbright for Research and Teaching in Vienna]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/06081/Amiya_Chakravarty_Fu.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Amiya Chakravarty, Philip R. McDonald Chair and Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management in the College of Business Administration at Northeastern University, has been recognized by the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration and the Austrian-American Educational Commission as the recipient of the Fulbright Distinguished Chair for the Spring 2008. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Human Mobility Study Meets Ethics Approval]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/06081/Ethics_Barabasi_Rese.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Professor Albert-László Barabási and his team have done groundbreaking research into the nature of human mobility. The University is proud of that research, which was not merely accepted by the peer-reviewed journal <i>Nature</i> but won pride of place on the cover of its June 5 edition. A widely-circulated press&nbsp;article alleging that Professor Barabási’s research did not pass any ethics reviews, however, is completely false. The Institutional Review Board at the U.S. Office of Naval Research, which funded this study as part of a larger pool of research into human mobility patterns, reviewed the proposal in June 2007 and determined that it did not involve human subjects. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Awarded Top Pharmacy Education Award for Exceptional Practice Partnerships]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/06081/Crystal_Apple.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[The Northeastern University School of Pharmacy together with John Marshall, Clinical Specialist in Critical Care, and Boston Medical Center, have been awarded the 2008 American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) Crystal APPLE Award for achieving excellence in academic-practice partnerships for exemplary experiential education. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Researcher Finds "Hypersegregation" May Contribute to Preterm Births Among Black Women]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/06081/Hypersegregation_Osy.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[New research by professor Theresa Osypuk found that regional hypersegregation (residential racial segregation across four or more dimensions*) may contribute to the higher rate of preterm births among Black women compared to White women. The paper, titled “Are Racial Disparities in Preterm Birth Larger in Hypersegregated Areas?,” also found that older Black women living in areas of the country with very high levels of neighborhood segregation experience even higher risk of preterm birth than Black mothers in less segregated areas. The study appeared in the latest issue of the <i>American Journal of Epidemiology</i>. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern Researchers Co-chair International Symposium on Cancer Nanotechnology]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0508/Amiji_Torchillin_Sym.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Professors Vladimir Torchilin and Mansoor Amiji are co-chairing a symposium at Nanotech 2008 conference, entitled “Nanotechnology for Cancer Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment.” The&nbsp;one-day symposium on June 4<sup>th</sup> will feature sessions by prominent members of the nanotechnology and cancer research community representing industry, healthcare, government and academia. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University’s Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing Develops Revolutionary Technology for Nanoscale Assembly at Wafer Level]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0508/Busnaina_NSTI_2008.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Researchers at the NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing (CHN) at Northeastern University, with partners UMass Lowell and University of New Hampshire, have discovered an innovative technology that will have a tremendous impact on the nanotechnology industry. This leading research and the work of the CHN partner schools will be on display at Booth #211 at the upcoming NSTI Nanotech 2008 Conference in Boston from June 1-5, 2008.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Professor Receives Fulbright Award to Serbia]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0508/Koenig_Fulbright.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern University Professor Thomas H. Koenig, Chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and a founding member of Northeastern’s Law, Policy and Society Ph.D. program, has been recognized by the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. As a result, Koenig will spend the 2008 fall semester at the University of Belgrade School of Law, Serbia’s largest and most historic institution of higher learning, where he will teach, lecture and conduct research focusing on Serbia’s progress in bringing its legal regime into conformity with the requirements of the European Union.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern Alumnus Receives Lifetime Achievement Award from the Environmental Protection Agency]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0508/Kamal_EPA_Award_5.29.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern University alumnus Sajed Kamal received a 2008 Lifetime Achievement Environmental Merit Award from the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), New England Region, at an awards ceremony held on April 22 at Boston’s Faneuil Hall. Kamal is an international leader in promoting sustainable energy and has served as both an educator and a consultant to create urgency around the development of sustainable energy resources. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern’s Center for Criminal Justice Policy Research Receives State Grant to Study Recidivism Rates]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0508/Frost_Recidivism_5.2.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[The Middlesex Sheriff’s Office is funding a one-year study at Northeastern University’s Center for Criminal Justice Policy Research that will examine recidivism rates of inmates released from the Middlesex House of Correction at Billerica. Natasha Frost, Ph.D., an Assistant Professor at Northeastern University’s College of Criminal Justice, is the principal investigator of the study at Northeastern and will take a comprehensive look at a sample of inmates to determine how often and under what circumstances the inmates are re-convicted and re-incarcerated.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[CEO of New York Life Elected Chairman of Northeastern University Board of Trustees]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0508/Sternberg.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[The Corporation of Northeastern University has elected Sy Sternberg, M.S. ’68, as chairman. Sternberg is chairman of the board and chief executive officer of New York Life Insurance Company (NYLIC), the largest mutual life insurance company in the United States and one of the largest life insurers in the world. Sternberg joined the Board of Trustees in 2004 and will succeed Neal F. Finnegan, ’61, Hon. ’98, as chairman on July 1<sup>st</sup>. Finnegan, who becomes chairman emeritus, has served as chairman since 1998 and has served on the Board of Trustees since 1989.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Recognized by&nbsp;NSA and&nbsp;DHS as National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Research]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0508/CAER.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[The National Security Agency (NSA) and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have announced that Northeastern University has been selected as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Research (CAE-R). The recognition complements Northeastern’s existing designation as a Center of Excellence in Information Assurance Education and aims to tap the University’s advanced academic research and development capabilities to help secure the global information grid and train professionals with information assurance expertise from various disciplines. Earlier this year, Northeastern won a Centers of Excellence grant from DHS to form a new center called ALERT (Awareness and Localization of Explosives-Related Threats).&nbsp;]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Researcher Proves Oral Gene Delivery System Works]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0508/Amiji_Mansoor_Gene_T.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Funded by a National Institutes of Health grant, Mansoor Amiji, professor of pharmaceutical sciences and Co-Director of Nanomedicine Education and Research Consortium (NERC) at Northeastern&nbsp;is successfully developing a safe and effective, orally administered non-viral gene delivery system that promises a painless treatment option with long-term effects and aims to ultimately replace the frequent injection regimen offered to IBD patients today. The most recent findings of the four-year project evaluating the efficiency of Nanoparticles-in-Microsphere Oral Systems (NiMOS) oral gene delivery system were published in the May issue of <i>Gene Therapy, </i>a <i>Nature</i> publication. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern Physicists Demonstrate Precise Manipulation of DNA-Drug Interactions]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0508/Mark_Williams_Opitca.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Focusing on how the DNA interacts with a potential drug is an important element of DNA therapy research.&nbsp; Mark Williams, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Physics at Northeastern University’s College of Arts in Sciences, and his research team have developed a method using optical tweezers to better understand how those interactions occur.&nbsp; ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University’s Marine Science Center and GE-Aviation partner to Enhance Education at Local Elementary School]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0508/Marine_Science_Cente.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[The Marine Science Center at Northeastern University and GE-Aviation have partnered to introduce a novel science curriculum at the Brickett Elementary School in Lynn. The innovative program features experiential learning activities outside the classroom using marine-based learning models and volunteers from the GE-Aviation facility. The programs also incorporates ocean environment and marine science based educational materials donated by National Geographic.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Professor Coins “Crimtorts”]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0508/Crimtorts.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Professor Thomas H. Koenig, Chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and a founding member of Northeastern’s Law, Policy and Society Ph.D. program was the lead speaker at a recent conference at Weidner Law School that focused on his concept of “crimtorts.”&nbsp; The term “crimtorts” was coined by Koenig and Michael Rustad, a professor at Suffolk University Law School, to describe a doctrinal approach that blends the principles of criminal law and the law of torts.&nbsp; Koenig’s article, entitled, “Crimtorts: A Cure for Hardening of the Categories,” will appear in the Weidner Law Journal’s July 2008 issue.&nbsp; ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Researcher Receives International Honors]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/Barry_Karger.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Dr. Barry Karger, James L. Water Chair of Anaytical Chemistry and Director of the Barnett Institute of Chemical and Biological Anaysis has received two international recognitions for his accomplishments in the field of&nbsp;separation science and bioanalytical chemistry. Karger has been elected as an honorary member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and was awarded the Csaba Horváth Medal of Innsbruck, Austria.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern Researcher Develops Model to Track Concentration of&nbsp; E. coli&nbsp;in the Lower Charles River]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0408/Ferdi_Hellweger_Char.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[It is a common belief that the water quality of the Charles River and other lakes, streams and rivers is at its worst after a large rainfall because of pollutants carried by runoff.&nbsp; However, a recent study completed by researchers at Northeastern University in Boston found high concentrations of <i>E. coli</i> bacteria in the Charles River after a long period of no rain.&nbsp; Ferdi Hellweger, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Acting Director of the Center for Urban Environmental Studies, both at Northeastern, used high-resolution monitoring and modeling to understand the fate and transport of <i>E. coli</i> bacteria in the lower section of the Charles River to determine what factors may lead to the increased concentration.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Journalism Professor Recognized for Best Commentary by the S.I. Newhouse School]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0408/Mirror_Award.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern University is proud to announce that Dan Kennedy, Assistant Professor at the School of Journalism, has been nominated for an esteemed Mirror Award in the category of “Best Commentary”. Kennedy has been recognized for his work as a contributor at <i>The Guardian</i>. At Northeastern, Kennedy teaches news reporting, press law, media criticism and other journalism courses, with an emphasis on blogging and new media.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Researcher Looks at the ‘News’ of Toothpaste]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0408/Toothpaste.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Communicating to consumers what’s new about toothpaste is a repeat task marketers of the popular product must constantly think about. Markets in developed and developing countries present varying challenges but a Northeastern University researcher and his team found that there are startling commonalities as well. Marketing professor Samuel Rabino and his co-authors looked at Australia, Mexico, and the Philippines and discussed their findings in a new study, titled <i>Creating “New News” Cross-Nationally in a Crowded Category: The Case of Toothpaste.</i>]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Nursing Faculty Sweep Awards]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0408/Nursing_Awards.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Three Northeastern University nursing professors are being honored with awards by the Massachusetts Association of Colleges of Nursing (MACN). Clinical Instructor Valeria A. Ramdin, MS, RNCS, ANP is receiving MACN’s Academic Nursing Early Career Award for Full-time Faculty. The MACN also presents awards in the Academic Innovative Teaching category, which in 2008 recognized Associate Professor Margaret Emerson, Ph.D., RN and Clinical Instructor Ann G. Hill, MS, RN, CRNA, BC, as a team. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Professor Receives $1.4 Million&nbsp;NIH Grant to Study Genetics of Resistant Bacteria]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0408/Kim_Lewis_NIH_Grant_.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Dr. Kim Lewis, Professor of Biology and Director of the Antimicrobial Center at Northeastern University, has been awarded a $1.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to examine the genetics of multidrug tolerance in bacteria.&nbsp; This four-year grant will allow Lewis, who recently received a grant from the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation to study the latency of tuberculosis, to continue his research on the formation of dormant persister bacterial cells, which are tolerant to all known antibiotics and make many infections incurable. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Professor Steven A. Morrison Awarded Distinguished Transportation Researcher]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/Morrison_TRF.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Steven A. Morrison, Professor and Chair of the Department of Economics in Northeastern University’s College of Arts and Sciences, has been recognized by the Transportation Research Forum (TRF) as a Distinguished Transportation Researcher. The award was presented during the 2008 Annual Transportation Research Forum last month in Fort Worth, Texas.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Professors Awarded Outstanding Referees by American Physical Society]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/Outstanding_Referees.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern University professors Jeffrey Sokoloff and Robert Markiewicz have been recognized as Outstanding Referees by the American Physical Society (APS). Instituted in 2008, the highly selective Outstanding Referee Program recognizes scientists who have been exceptionally helpful in assessing manuscripts for publication in the APS journals.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Small-scale Research with Large-scale Applications]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0408/Aceros_MEMs_Devices_.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Interdisciplinary approaches are applied in most every area of scientific study, including the field of nanotechnology. Scientists in the field of nanotechnology work with matter ranging from the atomic level to micron scale. At these scales, however, matter behaves in a different manner than in our macro world. Hence, understanding its basic principles and behavior is a priority for the creation of new reliable technologies and devices.&nbsp; Northeastern’s Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing, in collaboration with University of Massachusetts – Lowell and University of New Hampshire, is a world leader in the creation of processes such as nanotemplates that accelerate the manufacturing methods for a variety of commercial products.&nbsp; ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Researcher Develops Groundbreaking Methodology to Identify Cancerous Cells]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/Diem.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Recognizing the distinction between healthy and cancerous cells has traditionally been up to the eye of highly-trained cytologists and pathologists. While the majority of the resulting diagnoses are accurate, new technology can enhance the accuracy and alleviate the physical strain on the human observer. Northeastern University professor Max Diem and his team have developed an automatic method based on vibrational microspectroscopy that identifies the presence of metastatic cancer cells without the need for staining, and without human input.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Researcher Looks at Role of Technology in New Product Development ]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/Barczak_CBA_3.27.08.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[As the burgeoning market for innovation shows no signs of slowing down, many organizations are looking for ways to improve their products and services by using new information technologies (IT). However, there has been no available data proving that utilizing IT actually benefits new product outcomes. Gloria Barczak, Ph.D., a professor of marketing at Northeastern University’s College of Business Administration, is a national expert in the area of new product development (NPD) and is currently researching companies in the U.S. and in Europe to see whether or not utilizing information technology (IT) helps the NPD process. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern Nanotechnology Center Sponsors "NanoDays," Hosts Event on Alternative Enegy]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/CHNNanoDays2008.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern’s NSF Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing (CHN) and the Nanotechnology and Society Research Group is hosting a discussion on the possible environmental benefits of nanotechnology. The discussion is titled “Museum of Science Forum on Nanotechnology and Alternative Energy,” and it&nbsp;is part of the MOS’ “NanoDays” event series, sponsored by the CHN.&nbsp;The April 3rd forum will explore how the emerging field of nanotechnology presents great promise to address issues, such as climate change concerns, rising energy costs, and dwindling natural resources.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University to Host 6th Annual New England Latino Student Leadership Conference]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/Latino_Student_Leade.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern University’s Latino/a Student Cultural Center will host the 2008 New England Latino Student Leadership Conference. From March 28-29, students, faculty, staff and administrators from the New England region will gather together to discuss the empowerment of Latino leaders of tomorrow in an increasingly global environment.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern Study Results Challenge Outcome of Traditional Gender-Specific Activities on Risky Behavior in Teens]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/Varano_Farrell_C%26D_3.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Previous research has shown that participating in extracurricular activities protects young men and women from risky behaviors and delinquency. This theory was confirmed in a recent study from researchers at Northeastern University’s College of Criminal Justice, but the results also offered a different perspective on how the same activities affect young men and women differently. These, and other results, were published in a recent issue of <em>Crime &amp; Delinquency.</em>]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University College of Business Administration Welcomes Founder of Dancing Deer Baking Co.]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/Net_Impact.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Net Impact, a student-run nonprofit organization at Northeastern University, will welcome Trish Karter, Founder, President and CEO of Dancing Deer Baking Co. as she speaks at the group’s kick-off event. Karter will discuss Dancing Deer’s origins and the role the company has taken in corporate social responsibility as she has found a way to combine her environmental, community and business interests to form a wildly successful company.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Distinguished Hollywood Filmmaker Mira Nair to Speak at Northeastern University]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/Mira_Nair_Visit_ISSI.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Academy Award Nominee Mira Nair will discuss the art of filmmaking as part of the International Student &amp; Scholar Institute’s (ISSI) Distinguished Artist Series on Thursday, March 20 at 7 p.m. in Northeastern University’s Blackman Theater. Nair, whose feature film debut was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, is one of Hollywood’s most acclaimed filmmakers, having worked with acclaimed actors like Reese Witherspoon and Denzel Washington. Her visit is part of ISSI’s Carnevale! 2008, a two-month festival that celebrates cultural diversity at Northeastern through the arts.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer to Deliver Commencement Address to Northeastern School of Law Graduates ]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/2008_Law_School_Comm.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer will deliver the commencement address at the Northeastern School of Law graduation ceremony on May 23.&nbsp;&nbsp;Justice Breyer is renowned as a champion of “active liberty” --&nbsp;the active role of citizens in shaping their government.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Andrew Tarsy to Speak at Northeastern University’s Holocaust Awareness Lecture]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/Morton_Lecture.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Hosted by Northeastern University’s Holocaust Awareness Committee, the 16<sup>th</sup> annual Robert Salomon Morton Lecture will welcome Andrew Tarsy for a unique talk on the subject of genocide.. Titled, “The Power of Words: Why the Term ‘Genocide’ Matters So Much 60 Years after It Became an Internationally Recognized Crime,” Tarsy’s lecture is open to the public on March 19, from 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. in 10 Behrakis Center.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Researcher's Web-based Tools to Improve Patient Medication Adherence]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/Adherence_Rickles_Gr.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[One of the most prevalent challenges of delivering health services effectively is the patients’ non-adherence to the medications. A cutting-edge way to improve this behavior is a patient-centered Web-based interactive tool that assesses, monitors, and intervenes specifically on medication adherence. Northeastern Pharmacy Practice professor Nathaniel M. Rickles has received a grant from Innovation Group, a global solutions provider for the insurance industry, to develop adherence management tools for ensuing Web-based and call-center applications. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Researcher Aims to Reduce Heart Disease Risk in Older Black Women]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/Betsy_Howard.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern nursing professor Elizabeth Howard believes that a health promotion intervention is the key to changing health behaviors, reducing cardiovascular disease risk, and positively impacting health outcomes. She is conducting a research project with this particular population to test this hypothesis and&nbsp;strengthen the university's urban engagement.&nbsp;Her study group is part of a faith-based community; all 20 women (between the ages of 54 and 92) are members of the People’s Baptist Church in Roxbury, Massachusetts. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Police Department to Receive Prestigious State Accreditation]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/Accreditation_NUPD.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern’s Police Department has been accredited by the Massachusetts Police Accreditation Commission for delivering an exemplary level of police service in the Northeastern community. Under the leadership of Chief D. Joseph Griffin, the NUPD is the 26th police agency in Massachusetts to receive accreditation, and only the third college or university police department to receive this honor.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Physics Professor at Northeastern Receives Bruce Chalmers Award from Minerals, Metals &amp; Materials Society]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/Karma_Chalmers_Award.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Alain Karma, Ph.D., Professor of Physics and College of Arts &amp; Sciences Distinguished Professor at Northeastern University, has been selected to receive the Bruce Chalmers Award. Presented by the Minerals, Metals &amp; Materials Society (TMS), this award recognizes Professor Karma "for his many outstanding and innovative contributions to the science and technology of solidification and for providing exceptional insights into the fundamentals of microstructure evolution." Karma, a resident of Belmont, MA, was nominated and recognized by his peers and will receive the award during the TMS annual meeting and exhibition in New Orleans on March 11, 2008.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University College of Business Administration Takes First and Second in Annual Business Beanpot Competition]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/BSchool_Beanpot.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[For the tenth time, Northeastern University College of Business Administration has been awarded first place at the 12<sup>th</sup> annual B-School Beanpot Case Analysis Competition. This is the fourth time in the multi-university matchup that Northeastern won the top two positions. Led by Ray Kinnunen, Associate Professor of Management at Northeastern, the team proved that hard work and exceptional coaching translates into victory.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University to Host 23rd Annual Impact National Conference]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/IMPACT_Conference.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern University will welcome over 1,000 students from hundreds of colleges and universities to the 23<sup>rd</sup> annual IMPACT Conference for a discussion about service and advocacy. Hosted by the National Student Conference on Service, Advocacy &amp; Social Action, the three-day event will feature more than 90 workshops connected to the broad themes of service, activism, and social justice. Topics range from building and strengthening community service groups on campus to the role of investigative journalism in advocacy.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Professor Studies the Behavior of Media Multitasking Teens]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/Fareena_Sultan.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Today’s teenagers are known to have multiple types of media going at the same time and&nbsp;companies trying to reach this market are eager to find out what media these multitasking teens pay the most attention to and how they process the information that is coming to them through various media. Northeastern University Professor Fareena Sultan and her co-authors (Professors Andrew Rohm and Fleura Bardhi, also of Northeastern) have been studying the media multitasking behavior of teens on a global level. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SEC Chair Christopher Cox to Keynote Northeastern University’s 106th Commencement]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/Spring_Commencement.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Described by Newsweek as “the enforcer in America’s corporate boardrooms”, Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Chris Cox has overseen one of the most dramatic and successful shifts in the agency’s history, introducing sweeping new regulations to hold corporate leaders accountable and uniting fractious groups on Capitol Hill. Northeastern’s newest graduates will hear from him on May 2, when Cox delivers their keynote address. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Hosts Boston Public School Students to Debate Kosovo Situation]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/Model_UN_3.08.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern will host 150 Boston public school students who&nbsp;will devise solutions to the current situation in Kosovo as they role-play UN ambassadors. The students will participate in a simulation of five UN committees, discussing Kosovo’s recent independence, minority rights, the economic future of the region, preservation of cultural sites and the refugee situation. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Barnett Institute at Northeastern University Hosts BIOGENERICS 2008]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/Biogenerics2008.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[The Barnett Institute of Chemical and Biological Analysis at Northeastern is&nbsp;hosting the&nbsp;BIOGENERICS 2008 Conference (March 2-4, 2008). The event brings together regulators, global leaders and researchers of industry and academia for an open forum&nbsp;to discuss scientific and regulatory issues surrounding the biogeneric drug market.&nbsp;The unique conference will showcase the latest scientific advances, specific case histories and distinguished panels. The Barnett Institute at Northeastern is a leader in bioanalytical research. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Calling All Scientists and Engineers - Northeastern Seeks Volunteers to Mentor Middle School Science Students]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/RE-SEED_Volunteer_Ad.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern University’s RE-SEED program is looking for people with science backgrounds who can volunteer once a week in middle school science classes in Boston and throughout Massachusetts. People who are interested in volunteering can learn more about this free training program at an informational meeting on Monday, March 3 from 1:45-3:00 p.m. at Northeastern.&nbsp; ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Researchers Discover Groundbreaking Cultivation Technique]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/Cultivation_Techniqu.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Two Northeastern University researchers have discovered a way to domesticate “stubborn” microbial species. The revolutionary method capitalizes on their earlier technology to grow microorganisms in diffusion chambers incubated in natural environment. Now Professors Slava Epstein and Kim Lewis, Director of Northeastern’s Antimicrobial Discovery Center, have shown that a series of such incubations lead to the appearance of variants capable of growth on standard media. Additionally, they designed a “chip” allowing massively parallel growth and isolation of pure microbial cultures. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern Engineering Robotics Program Offers Niche to Apply Skills and Engage Youth]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/Nutron_Robot_2.08.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Over the past six weeks, a team of Northeastern University engineering students have been volunteering their time to help high school students design and build a robot. &nbsp;Last Friday, the team unveiled their robot, which will compete in a regional contest against 50 other robots in March.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University’s Health Informatics Program Continues to Grow]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/Northeastern_Univers.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[One year after its creation, Northeastern University’s graduate Health Informatics program has seen continued growth and praise from the healthcare community. The interdisciplinary program combines resources from the Bouve College of Health Sciences and the College of Computer and Information Sciences which collectively provide students with a thorough and robust course offering.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Robot Chats with Museum of Science Visitors]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/Bickmore_MOS_Tinker_.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[A robot museum guide designed by Computer Science professor Timothy Bickmore will be unveiled at Boston's Museum of Science next week. Tinker, the virtual guide is capable of social interactions through verbal and nonverbal communication.&nbsp;Tinker's built-in biometric technology&nbsp;enables her remember each visitor after they walk away and continue the conversation upon their return. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern Hosting Local Students for Public Science Day]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/Public_Science_Day_2.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern University will host students from the Curley and Lewenberg Schools in Boston to explore the world of nanotechnology as part of an entertaining and educational Public Science Day. The city-wide event is sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and corresponds to their annual meeting in Boston. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Hosts Fulbright Conference on Energy &amp; Innovation]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/Fulbright_Conference.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern's NSF Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing is hosting the Fulbright Academy of Science &amp; Technology (FAST) Conference on Energy and Innovation, which will include presentations about renewable energy, space exploration and the diplomacy of technological advancement between the US and Libya. This multidisciplinary event will address new developments in energy-related fields and brings together scholars in the areas of photography, &nbsp;diplomacy, linguistics and technology. Dr. Nina Fedoroff, Science &amp; Technology Advisor to Secretary of State Condolezza Rice, will be participating in a session about microbiology and hydrogen energy.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Computer Science Student's Co-op Job Turns Into Full-time Offer]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/Hanrahan_Coop.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Computer science student Kaitlyn Hanrahan has taken full advantage of Northeastern’s experiential education model. The senior has built up a stellar resume through her co-op experiences, including a job at Adobe Systems, Inc. Her performance working as a software engineer,&nbsp;designing and building interfaces for testing software tools, resulted in an invitation to join the company upon graduation. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern’s Liberty Battalion of Army&nbsp;ROTC Sees Increase in Applicants]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/Army_ROTC.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern University’s recent success in expanding its marketing and recruiting efforts has been mirrored by its Military Science Department, the Liberty Battalion of Army ROTC. This year, 219 high school students applied for four-year scholarships from the battalion. The program has seen a 30% in enrolled Cadets in the past year.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Celebrates Diversity with the 13th&nbsp;ISSI Carnevale! Festival]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/ISSI_Carnevale%21_2008.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[The Northeastern University community represents more than 120 of the 194 countries across the globe. With such an abundance of diversity and talent, there is cause for celebration. Northeastern’s International Student and Scholar Institute (ISSI) is hosting the ISSI Carnevale!, a two-month festival that highlights the diverse cultures represented at the university and its neighboring communities through artistic demonstrations and performances. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Pulitzer Prize-winning <em>Boston Globe</em> Reporter&nbsp;Creates Investigative Journalism Courses at Northeastern University]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/Walter_Robinson.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Pulitzer Prize-winning Northeastern University professor Walter Robinson's unique investigative journalism courses build upon his 34-year experience as a <EM collageitalic="true" cmid="Standard Document:Home Page Teaser">Boston Globe </em>reporter. The undergraduate and graduate courses are highly selective and students work together to as Robinson acts as their editor, guiding them throughout the practice of “prospecting” a story and spends&nbsp;several classes&nbsp;discussing the process of interviewing. The course is a testament to the success of Northeastern's experiential education model and in the Spring and Fall semesters' of '07, the students produced six page one investigative stories that ran in <i>The Boston Globe.</i>]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Sees Record Applicant Pool]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/Admissions_35000.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[More than 35,000 students have applied to Northeastern University for entrance this September, up 16 percent from last year. The 64 percent increase in applications&nbsp;over the last five years&nbsp;includes increased interest from&nbsp;Mid-Atlantic, West Coast and international students and is due in part to an expanded presence both nationally and overseas.&nbsp;The university has also seen a considerable surge in the number of African American and Hispanic applicants which have increased 143 percent and 52 percent over the last 10 years, respectively.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Researcher Studies Novel Oral Gene Therapy Method to Treat Inflammatory Bowel Disease]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/AmijiMansoor.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Professor Mansoor Amiji and his interdisciplinary team received a a $1.34 Million grant from the National Institutes of Health to conduct the first study to examine the role of safe and effective non-viral gene delivery system for treatment of&nbsp;inflammatory bowel disease&nbsp;upon oral administration. Amiji's study will&nbsp;evaluate the effectiveness of a novel DNA delivery system, called Nanoparticles-in-Microsphere Oral System or NiMOS. IBD treatment is currently restricted to drugs being administered frequently through injections with short-term effects and toxic side effects. Oral gene therapy is the most promising non-invasive treatment with long-lasting effects.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Researchers Develop Method to Identify Sparticles in Big Bang Conditions]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/Nath_PRL_1.10.08.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Three Northeastern University researchers have proposed a new approach for the highly anticipated discovery of supersymmetric particles, often called sparticles. The methodology, which was published in the December 21 issue of the <i>Physical Review Letters</i>, is based on identifying the hierarchical mass patterns of sparticles, which are assumed to exist in a new class of particle physics theories beyond the Standard Model.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Hosts Novel Video Game Designing Program for Middle School Students]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/Bootstrap.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern University’s College of Computer and Information Science has introduced “Bootstrap,” a novel after-school program aimed at introducing middle schoolers to entry-level programming under the mentorship of Northeastern students. Bootstrap offers middle schoolers a fun way to learn by enabling participants to create their own video games as part of a ten-week program.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Professor to Train Pharmacists to Become Better Communicators]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/CommSkillsPharmacySt.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern University pharmacy professor Nathaniel Rickles wants to make sure that communication skills taught in the classroom&nbsp;are reinforced during experiential rotations. Rickles' project, funded by&nbsp;the American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education’s&nbsp;new investigator grant, will train&nbsp;community pharmacists (preceptors) to provide better feedback to students about their communication skills. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Hosts Renowned Speaker to Commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/MLK_Convocation_2008.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Reverend Dr. Zan Wesley Holmes, pastor emeritus of St. Luke Community United Methodist Church in Dallas, TX, will give the keynote address at Northeastern University’s annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Convocation on Wednesday, January 9, 2008.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern Professors Sridhar and Karma Elected to American Physical Society Fellowship]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/Sri_Karma_Fellowship.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Srinivas Sridhar and Alain Karma, both Professors of Physics and College of Arts &amp; Sciences Distinguished Professors, have been elected as Fellows of the American Physical Society (APS) for their exceptional work in their specific areas of physics research.&nbsp; ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Professor Links Adverse Health Outcomes to Assisted Reproductive Technology in Massachusetts]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/Angela_Nannini.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern nursing professor Angela Nannini co-authored the first population-based based study in the US comparing births conceived with Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) to those without ART or infertility medications, finding that the former is strongly associated with numerous chronic conditions and complications during pregnancy, labor and delivery. The paper, titled “A Population-Based Study of Maternal and Perinatal Outcomes Associated with Assisted Reproductive Technology in Massachusetts” appeared in the November issue of <i>Maternal and Child Health Journal</i>. ]]></description>
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<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/Fellowship_Mitchell_.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Professor Mitchell Wand of the College of Computer and Information Science has been announced as a 2007 Association for Computing Machinery Fellow. He was recognized with the prestigious award for his contributions to type theory and program analysis. Wand's work has included important results ranging over mathematical theories of language semantics, models of parallelism and concurrency, and language design.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University's RE-SEED Program to Host 14th Annual Conference]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/RESEED_Event.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern’s RE-SEED (Retirees Enhancing Science Education Through Experiments and Demonstrations) program will host its 14<sup>th</sup> annual conference for volunteers. More than 70 people are expected to attend, many of whom are volunteers in middle schools in Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island. Participants will have a chance to discuss and present school science activities and take part in a problems and solutions session. There will also be an awards presentation for volunteers who have given 3, 5, or 10 years of service to RE-SEED.&nbsp; ]]></description>
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<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/Mormon_Lecture_Setta.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[The Philosophy &amp; Religion Monthly Forum will present the latest in its series of events, titled “A Mormon (LDS) President in America? Church-State Relationship Issues.” In its first year, the forum’s lectures address issues of current interest in the areas of philosophy and religion. Susan Setta, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Religious Studies and the Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion will present her&nbsp;lecture&nbsp;on the role of religion in Presidential campaigns.&nbsp;]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Professor's Compositition to Be Performed at New York City's Lincoln Center]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/Lincoln_Center_De_Ri.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[An original composition by Northeastern's Chair the Department of Music will be performed at New York's Lincoln Center on December 3rd, as part of Melody for Dialogue Among Civilizations Association's&nbsp;world premiere concert, “Melody for Peace – Rossini, but not only…” The goal of this special event is to promote peace and a unique bond among humanity through the universal language of music performed by artists from around the world.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Welcomes Pioneer Computer Animator]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/Jeff_Kleiser.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern’s Department of Art + Design welcomes Jeff Kleiser, special effects artist, producer and director as part of the third annual visiting-artist lecture series. President and Co-Founder of Kleiser-Walczak Construction Company, a bi-costal animation and effects house, Jeff Kleiser’s groundbreaking work in computer animation has spanned the history of the medium. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Tests Building Collapse as Part of International Competition for Engineers and Students]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/Progressive_Collapse.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern engineering professor Mehrdad Sasani and his team are holding the&nbsp;first annual&nbsp;Progressive Collapse Resistance Competition (PCRC2007),&nbsp;an event aimed to provide undergraduate and graduate students, as well as professionals, with an opportunity to learn about progressive collapse resistance of reinforced concrete structures. Teams competing in the competition include universities and engineering firms across the U.S. and Canada.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Hosts First Annual Health Fair Joining Healthcare Organizations to Promote Healthy Living]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/Bouve_Health_Fair.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern hosts ts first annual <b>Bouvé Health Fair and Flu Clinic</b> to provide students and the local community an opportunity to learn about new services, ask questions about medications, get free advice on healthy living, or to try the sun damage facial analyzer, and get blood pressures checks. The event is also intended to raise cancer and disease awareness. In addition to the free services and learning opportunities, $25 flu shots and 12$ cholesterol tests, the day’s events will include a blood drive with Massachusetts General Hospital providing a second bloodmobile due to the large number of volunteers who have already signed up to donate.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Researcher Finds Way to Measure Word-of-Mouth Effectiveness]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/Walter_Carl_G2X.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern professor and internationally known scholar and expert in Word-of-Mouth (WOM) marketing, Dr. Walter Carl, is the author of a winning paper that was recognized by the Word of Mouth Marketing Association (WOMMA) in the Best Use of WOMMA Terminology Framework category. The paper, titled “Measuring the Ripple: Creating the G2X Relay Rate and an Industry Standard Methodology to Measure the Spread of Word-of-Mouth Conversations and Marketing-Relevant Outcomes” will be published in WOMMA’s member-generated research collection, titled <i>Measuring Word of Mouth Vol. 3.</i> The paper discusses a groundbreaking new methodology to measure the effectiveness of WOM.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Researcher Honored for Founding Substance Abuse Programs in Greater Boston Area]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/Hortensia_Award_HRDI.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern professor Dr. Hortensia Amaro was honored by the Human Resources Development Institute&nbsp;for her courage, vision and determination to open substance abuse programs in the greater Boston area to raise members of the community from the depths of addiction to the height of recovery.&nbsp; Dr. Amaro, who is also Director of the Institute on Urban Health Research&nbsp;received the Founders Day Award during HRDI’s first annual Founders Day reception and fundraiser.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Presents Latin America through Jewish Eyes]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/Latin_America_throug.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, November 14th, Northeastern University will celebrate an evening of Jewish and Latino culture with music, art, reading selections and food. Faculty members and special guests will present on topics including cultural backgrounds, Jewish presence in Brazilian art, Jewish Cuban Cuisine, Jewish-Latin American music and poetry. An art show and a reception featuring authentic Latin American and Jewish cuisine will also take place.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Remembers Its Veterans]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/VeteransMemorialCere.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern University will hold a Veterans Day Ceremony on Saturday, November 10th at 11:00 a.m. to remember the nearly 300 alumni and students of the institution who died in service to their country during wartime. Members, friends and family of the Northeastern community are invited to attend the special event honoring our fallen heroes. The event will take place at the university’s Veterans Memorial site, a black granite monument featuring the names, on dog-tag-like metal plaques, of Northeastern alumni and students who died in uniform, from World War I through the current Iraq War. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Presents Its 5th Annual Surface Cleaning Workshop]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/SurfaceCleaningWorks.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern University is organizing and hosting its 5<sup>th</sup> Annual Surface Cleaning Workshop to present and discuss current and future challenges and solutions in surface cleaning, offering tutorials, workshops and a host of guest speakers. Aimed at industry and academia, the three-day international event will explore new technologies, challenges and solutions in surface cleaning. ]]></description>
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<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/Manisha_Thakor.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern University’s “Meet the Author” series welcomes personal finance expert Manisha Thakor to discuss her new financial planning guide <i>On My Own Two Feet</i>. Billed as the modern girl’s guide to personal finance, <i>On My Own Two Feet</i> discusses how to avoid falling into credit card debt, how to budget and save income and how to deal with large purchases such as cars or homes.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Welcomes Acclaimed Fiction Writer]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/Stewart_O%27Nan.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern University’s “Meet the Author” series welcomes Stewart O’Nan, critically hailed as one of the most highly acclaimed fiction writers of his generation. O’Nan, who co-wrote <i>The</i> <i>New York Times</i> bestseller <i>Faithful</i> with Stephen King, will discuss his new book <i>Last Night at the Lobster</i>.&nbsp;]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Department of Art + Design Hosts 1st Annual Faculty Exhibition]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/FacultyArtShow.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern University’s Department of Art + Design will hold its 1<sup>st</sup> annual faculty exhibition in recognition of its continued artistic and academic excellence.&nbsp;Faculty will display numerous works in painting, photography, print, graphic design, installation, sculpture and video. The exhibit will run from November 8<sup>th</sup> through November 30<sup>th</sup> at two locations on campus.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Researcher Honored for Contributions to Latino Community and the Field of Substance Abuse]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/HortensiaAward.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern University professor Dr. Hortensia Amaro&nbsp;has been&nbsp;honored by Casa Esperanza, for her invaluable contributions to the Latino community and the field of substance abuse. Dr. Amaro received the award at Casa Esperanza’s 2007 Hope in Action fundraising event. She is also the Director of Northeastern's Institute on Urban Health Research and is known as a pioneer who has drawn national attention to a critical public health problem and has worked tirelessly to develop culturally competent approaches to substance abuse treatment for the Latino community. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Receives Grant to Raise Environmental Awareness with Computer Simulation Game]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/NSFGrantComputerSimu.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern University has received a $498,803 grant from the National Science Foundation to assess next generation learning through computer-facilitated networked play. The project focuses on a cooperative interdisciplinary computer game, <i>Shortfall Online</i>, developed by faculty and staff from the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering and the Department of Visual Arts and Multimedia Studies. In an effort to encourage learning and cater to the needs of technologically savvy students, the project will bring the growing concerns of environmental awareness and diverse learning styles together in an innovative learning model aimed at educating future engineering leaders. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Welcomes Former General John Abizaid to Discuss the U.S. and the Middle East]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/GeneralAbizaidLectur.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Retired General John Abizaid, former Commander of the U.S Central Command, will discuss his insights into the United States’ involvement and future plans in the Middle East from a political and military standpoint, as part of a unique, interactive event at Northeastern University. Titled “The Way Ahead in the Middle East,” the event is presented by the Office of the President in conjunction with Northeastern’s Middle East Center. General Abizaid retired from the U.S. Army in May 2007 after 34 years of active service and is widely considered as an expert on Middle Eastern affairs.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Professor Elected into Academia Europaea]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/BarabasiAcademiaEuro.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern University physicist Albert-László Barabási has been elected into the Academia Europaea as&nbsp;a Foreign Member.&nbsp;He is&nbsp;one of four elected members in the Physics category in 2007. Membership into the Academia is by invitation only, following a peer review selection process. The primary criterion for membership is sustained academic excellence in the candidate’s field. Barabási is a pioneer in networking as a unified scientific theory and has examined network patterns in all aspects of life, from the worldwide spread of AIDS to social relationships, obesity, the World Wide Web and cellular systems. His work has been published regularly in highly prestigious scientific journals and he is the author of “Linked: The New Science of Networks.”]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Researcher's Study Could Help Pancreatic Cancer Patients Respond Better to Chemotherapeutic Drugs]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/CampbellPancreaticCa.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Pancreatic cancer is nearly impossible to&nbsp;detect at an early, treatable stage. Remaining treatment options include chemotherapeutic approaches involving the use of such drugs as gemcitabine and 5-fluorouracil (5-FU), but they have produced limited clinical success.&nbsp;Professor Robert B. Campbell and&nbsp;his&nbsp;Ph.D. student investigated whether or not mucin overexpressed on the surface of human pancreatic tumor cells might act as a physical barrier, limiting the drug’s effectiveness. The article discussing the experiment, titled “Mucin Impedes Cytotoxic Effect of 5-FU against Growth of Human Pancreatic Cancer Cells; Overcoming Cellular Barriers for Therapeutic Gain” is published in this month’s issue of <i>The British Journal of Cancer</i>.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Welcomes Ad Exec-Turned Starbucks Employee for Book Talk]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/GatesGillLibrary.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern University’s “Meet the Author” series welcomes Michael Gates Gill, a former advertising executive-turned Starbucks employee. Gill, a Yale graduate, will discuss<i> How Starbucks Saved My Life</i>, a memoir in which he recounts how he reclaimed a life torn apart by an affair that resulted in a divorce, a brain tumor and a collapsing business venture by taking a job serving coffee, working the cash register and making lattes at Starbucks.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Latino/a Student Cultural Center Celebrates 10th Anniversary]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/LatinoCenter10thAnni.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern's Latino/a Student Cultural Center is celebrating its 10<sup>th</sup> anniversary this month. For the past decade, LSCC has promoted Latino culture and explored Latino identity and self-awareness within the Northeastern community through integrating existing organizations and services that offer Latino/a, Latin American, and Caribbean oriented programs and activities. The weekend of events celebrating the anniversary will be a great opportunity for alumni to reconnect with old friends and for current students and members of the community to make new ones.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Student's Photo Published in National Honors Society Publication]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/StudentPhoto.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[A Northeastern University student’s photograph was chosen for publication in <i>The Collegiate Scholar</i>, an online publication produced by The National Society of Collegiate Scholars (NSCS).&nbsp;Ben Landsberg, a middler studying economics and mathematics, was recognized for his photo <i>Charles River at Night</i>.&nbsp;It was selected from more than 100 submissions in the art category.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University's Institute on Urban Health Research Awarded $3 Million in Research Grants]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/IUHRGrants.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[The Institute on Urban Health Research at Northeastern announced the funding of 3 grants to conduct two projects in collaboration with the Boston Public Health Commission and another project with the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. The grants in the amount of almost $3 million are to design clinical treatment and intervention programs and evaluate their effectiveness for greater Boston area minority populations affected by substance abuse, mental health, HIV/AIDS and other infectious disease problems. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Celebrates Inaugural Pride Week]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/PrideWeek.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern University continues its quest to become a national and international leader in diversity and inclusion by hosting its inaugural Pride Week. A week-long series of activities and events will celebrate lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) individuals and hope to raise awareness of the community among the general population in an effort to build equality for all. The week-long celebration kicks off on Tuesday, October 9th and will conclude on Friday, October 12th. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Hosts Performance by Legendary Artist Peggy Seeger]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/PeggySeeger.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Legendary activist, singer,&nbsp;songwriter and visiting artist&nbsp;Peggy Seeger will have the audience laughing and singing during her lecture/performance “I Come From Women: Peggy Seeger Sings Traditional and Original Songs.” The event is part of Northeastern's Women's Studies lecture series titled "Gender Matters" and will take place on Wednesday, October 3rd at 4 p.m.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Professor's Radio Series Wins Prestigious Award]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/VirginiaEskin.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern University visiting artist Virginia Eskin was honored for her radio documentary series, titled <i>“First Ladies in Music with Virginia Eskin”</i> with the Clarion Award by the Association of Women in Communications. Eskin created and hosted the series and shares this award with the series’ producer WFMT Radio Network in Chicago, and its sponsor&nbsp;&nbsp; Northeastern University. <i>First Ladies</i> is a 13-week, one-hour series that tells the history of women in music. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Gates Foundation Partners with Northeastern University to Fight Global TB Epidemic]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/GatesGrantTB.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Dr. Kim Lewis, Professor of Biology and Director of the Antimicrobial Center, is among the recipients of $280 million in grants the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation has dedicated to help support the research and speed the development of TB vaccines, diagnostic tests, and treatments. Northeastern’s $750,000 grant will help Dr. Lewis and his team to develop an approach to anti-tuberculosis therapy by studying the latency of tuberculosis.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Professor Receives Prestigious Book Award]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/ZippelBookAward.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern University professor, Kathrin Zippel, was the co-winner of the 2007 Victoria Schuck award, given each year from the American Political Science Association to the author of the best book published on women and politics.&nbsp; Titled&nbsp; “The Politics of Sexual Harassment: A Comparative Study of the United States, the European Union, and Germany,” Zippel’s book offers a detailed, nuanced and well-researched comparative analysis of legal measures against workplace sexual harassment on both sides of the Atlantic.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University's Outreach Program Uses Music to Engage Kids]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/Coltrane.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[The John Coltrane Memorial Concert Educational Outreach Program uses music as the context to initiate a unique exchange between generations of students, teachers and musicians. Under the leadership of Dr. Leonard Brown and Dr. Emmett Price of Northeastern University’s Departments of African American Studies and Music, the Program collaborates with eight Boston and Cambridge inner-city schools to bring live performances of African-American creative improvisational music to predominantly minority student populations.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ATHLETIC DIRECTOR PETER ROBY TO DISCUSS CONTROVERSIAL SPORTS ISSUES IN DEDHAM FORUM ]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/roby.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern University Athletic Director Peter Roby will participate in a community forum on the impact of sports on American society, which will be moderated by Bill Littlefield, host of the popular <i>National Public Radio</i> sports magazine “Only a Game.”]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY WELCOMES ARTISTS RAFAEL CONSUEGRA AND ERNESTO MONTENEGRO ]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/artists.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Huntington Avenue —also known as “The Avenue of the Arts” — will more than live up to its name when Northeastern hosts an exhibit of select metal and bronze sculptures by artists Rafael Consuegra and Ernesto Montenegro.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Institute Awarded Grant to Create National Human Trafficking Reporting System]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/HumanTraffickingGran.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[The Institute on Race and Justice&nbsp;at Northeastern University was awarded a $440,448 grant by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice, to develop and implement the first data collection and reporting system on cases of human trafficking. In collaboration with the Urban Institute in Washington D.C., the Human Trafficking Reporting System (HTRS) will be designed, piloted and rolled out to human trafficking task forces throughout the U.S., starting January 1, 2008.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Awarded $3 Million to Train "Diagnostic Engineers" for Aging Civil Infrastructures]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/IGERT.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern University has received a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop the first interdisciplinary Ph.D. program in Intelligent Diagnostics for Aging Civil Infrastructure Systems. Funded over five years, the project will include a partnership with the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez to create a joint education and research site to produce diagnostic engineers who can successfully apply multidisciplinary skills to address technical, societal and political challenges associated with aging infrastructure and damage due to natural and man-made disasters. IGERT Fellows will receive doctorate degrees after two years of training, and will be prepared for careers in both industry and academia.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Receives Funding from the National Cancer Institute to Study the Glycobiology of Cancer]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/Hancock.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern University is one of seven institutions selected by The National Cancer Institute (NCI) to receive funding as part of a new $15.5 million, five-year initiative to discover, develop, and clinically validate cancer biomarkers by targeting the carbohydrate (glycan) part of a molecule.&nbsp;The purpose of this initiative is to aid in the understanding of cancer risk and detection.&nbsp;Northeastern’s research team is led by William Hancock, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and Bradstreet Chair of the Barnett Institute, and will focus its work on breast cancer.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Professor Receives NIH Award to Research Health Disparities Among Minority Families]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0907/NIHAwardDominguez.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern University Assistant Professor of Sociology and Human Services, Silvia Domínguez, has received the Health Disparities Research Loan Repayment (RLP) Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). In exchange for a two-year research commitment by Domínguez into health issues impacting Boston’s immigrant community, the award will forgive a substantial amount of Domínguez’s educational debt. Domínguez’s two primary research studies focus on understanding how domestic and neighborhood-based violence influence the mental health and economic self-sufficiency of low-income immigrant and minority families.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University International Business Professor Ravi Ramamurti Selected by the United Nations to Help Prepare 2008 World Investment Report ]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0807/ravi.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern University Professor and Bornstein Senior Fellow of International Business Ravi Ramamurti has been selected by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) to help prepare its World Investment Report 2008.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Awarded Federal Grant to Train Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nurses for Underserved Populations]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0807/CarolGlodGrant.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Dr. Carol Glod, nursing professor and research director received a $625,000 federal grant to train child and adolescent psychiatric and mental health nurses for underrepresented populations. The project also aims to help eliminate the current local and national shortage of qualified nurses for these patients and their families. Funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), the three-year project will expand Northeastern University's existing graduate program. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Professor Darien Wood Elected Spokesperson of DZero Experiment at Fermilab]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0807/Fermilab.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern University Associate Professor of Physics Darien Wood assumes the position of Spokesperson for the DZero Experiment, located at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, IL.&nbsp;The DZero Experiment explores the fundamental nature of matter and intends to answer the question, “What is the Universe made of?” The Experiment uses the world's premier high-energy accelerator, the Tevatron particle collider at Fermilab, and DZero scientists sift through the debris of proton–antiproton collisions produced at the highest available energies and search for subatomic clues that reveal the character of the building blocks of the universe. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern Student and Friends Raise Money for The Jimmy Fund]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0807/LesterProject.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Inspired by rookie Red Sox pitcher Jon Lester's winning battle against cancer, Amanda Davis, a Northeastern University&nbsp;middler has been busy raising money with four of her friends to benefit the Jimmy Fund. Davis and her team, founders of The Lester Project (www.thelesterproject.com) have raised over $15,000 dollars by selling bracelets featuring the words "Striking Out Cancer" and Lester's jersey number, #62. The women, along with The Jimmy Fund will be at Fenway tonight selling the bracelets!]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Psychologists Discover Fundamental Bias in Moral Judgment]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0807/hypocrisy.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA["Do as I say, not as I do."&nbsp; This old adage refers to the concept of moral hypocrisy, a state of mind in which an individual readily forgives his or her own moral transgressions, yet judges harshly the identical sins of another.&nbsp; In the latest edition of <i>Psychological Science</i>, Northeastern psychologists Piercarlo Valdesolo and David DeSteno present a study showing that, not only do people regularly forgive their own transgressions, but they also extend the same leniency towards members of their social groups.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Pro Football Prospectus Author Aaron Schatz to Speak at Northeastern University ]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0807/football.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Aaron Schatz, author of the widely acclaimed <i>Pro Football Prospectus, </i>will discuss his new guide, <em>Pro Football Prospectus 2007: The Essential Guide to the 2007 Pro Football Season, </em>on Wednesday, August 15 at Northeastern University's Curry Student Center from noon to 1:30 p.m.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University researchers answer long standing question in the field of condensed matter physics]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0807/naturephysics.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern University researchers Sergey V. Kravchenko and Svetlana Anissimova and colleagues have published an important new paper in the August issue of <i>Nature Physics</i> which answers a long standing question in the field of condensed matter physics.&nbsp;&nbsp; <br>]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Opens Historical Records of Sociedad Latina for Research]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0607/sociedad.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern University Libraries is pleased to announce that the historical records of Sociedad Latina are open for research.&nbsp; The collection documents the efforts of Sociedad Latina to promote leadership among Latino youth and strengthen, educate, and empower youth of all ethnicities living in the Mission Hill, Roxbury, Dorchester, and Jamaica Plain neighborhoods.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Second Annual&nbsp;"Pharmacy Summer Experience"&nbsp;Introduces Local Kids to Field of Pharmacy]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0607/PharmacyCamp.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[The second annual "Pharmacy Summer Experience" is a four-day camp (July 29 - August 2) organized by Northeastern University's School of Pharmacy faculty, students and pharmacists. It is designed to give local high-schoolers interested in science and healthcare a glimpse into the education and career options in the&nbsp;pharmacy profession.&nbsp; ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Jessie C. Gruman to Keynote Northeastern's Fall Commencement]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0607/Fall07Commencement.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Jessie C. Gruman, founder and president of the Center for the Advancement of Health (CFAH), an independent, nonpartisan Washington-based policy institute devoted to strengthening people’s abilities to make good use of health care, will deliver the keynote address to more than 1,200 students at Northeastern University’s fall commencement exercises, to be held on Thursday, August 30 at 7:30 p.m. in Matthews Arena. Gruman will receive an honorary doctorate of public service at the ceremony.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University and Hebrew College Form Partnership]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0607/Hebrew_College_Partn.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern University and Hebrew College have agreed to collaborate in one of the most expansive partnerships between a private university and a Jewish college. The presidents of the two Boston area colleges said the agreement calls for a close and extensive partnership, the sharing of resources and expertise, joint faculty appointments and the ability for students to take classes at each campus. The two institutions will remain independent.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University to Honor Scholarship Winners from Boston Public High Schools]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0607/scholarship.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern University will host a dinner on June 29th to honor more than 30 Boston Public High School students who won scholarships to attend Northeastern in fall 2007.&nbsp; Mayor Menino and Northeastern President Joseph Aoun will attend the dinner to congratulate the scholarship winners and speak about their accomplishments.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Ranked 12 Out of More Than 100 U.S. Architecture Schools]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0607/arch.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern University is proud to announce that its School of Architecture has been ranked 12th out of more than 100 architecture schools in the United States, by The Key Centre for Architectural Sociology in its 2007 “Best Architecture Schools in Research” survey.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Hosts Family Day at Fenway]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0607/fenway.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[This Saturday, 350 boys and girls from Boston-area youth organizations – including Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Massachusetts Bay, Mission Hill Little League, Roberto Clemente Little League, and the All Dorchester Sports League – will join more than 4,500 Northeastern alumni and students for an “up close and personal” day of fun at Fenway Park.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Researchers Demonstrate Novel Method for Studying the DNA Binding of Small Molecules with Unprecedented Accuracy]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0607/nme.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern University professor Mark C. Williams and graduate student Ioana Vladescu have discovered a novel method for studying the DNA binding of small molecules with unprecedented accuracy.&nbsp; Their paper, titled “Quantifying force-dependent and zero-force DNA intercalation by single-molecule stretching,” has been published in the June 2007 issue of the prestigious <i>Nature Methods</i>.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing Hosts 5th Annual Nanomanufacturing Workshop]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0607/chn.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[The NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing at Northeastern University, University of Massachusetts Lowell and the University of New Hampshire will host the 5th New England International Nanomanufacturing Workshop on June 19th and 20th.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Journalism Student Wins Prestigious Scholarship from Alpha Omega Council]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0607/coates.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern University is proud to announce that Nicholas J. Menegakis Coates, a graduate student in the university’s School of Journalism, has been selected for&nbsp;the prestigious Peter Agris Scholarship from the Alpha Omega Council.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Researchers Solve Rubik’s Cube in 26 Moves ]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0507/rubik.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[It’s a toy that most kids have played with at one time or another, but the findings of Northeastern University Computer Science professor Gene Cooperman and graduate student Dan Kunkle are not child’s play.&nbsp; The two have proven that 26 moves suffice to solve any configuration of a Rubik's cube – a new record.&nbsp; Historically the best that had been proved was 27 moves.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Nursing Students Head to Dublin to Explore Public Health Care in Ireland]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0507/nursing.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[A group of Northeastern nursing students and their professors will spend three weeks in Dublin exploring the region's public health care system as it impacts vulnerable populations in Ireland, and comparing it to that of the U.S. The group will also spend a day with former Boston police commissioner, Kathleen O’Toole, who is now the chief inspector of Ireland’s national police force.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University and WGI, Inc. Sign R&amp;D and License Agreement for Electro-Rheological Fluid (ERF) Technology ]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0507/strokerehab.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern University and WGI, Inc., a Massachusetts-based leading supplier of precision parts and assemblies for aerospace, industrial and medical applications, announced the signing of an agreement licensing to WGI, Inc. a breakthrough technology invented by a Northeastern University professor and his team for stroke rehabilitation using intelligent portable devices.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Dean Testifies Before Congress, Assists with Passage of Anti-Hate Crime Bill in U.S. House]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0507/mcdevitt.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Jack McDevitt, associate dean of Northeastern University’s College of Criminal Justice, testified before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee last month in support of legislation that would greatly expand the reach of federal law to address hate crimes.&nbsp; His depth of knowledge of hate crime statistics and ability to refute criticism with facts helped the bill gain passage by a vote of 237 to 180.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Hosts Fourth Annual Beantown Blitz]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0507/beantown.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[On Saturday May 19th, Matthews Arena will be the site of the fourth annual Beantown Blitz, Northeastern University’s off-season FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) showdown.&nbsp; More than 36 teams from across New England will battle for dominance in the day-long competition.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Composer Bridges Musical Worlds With Unique Score Featuring DJ Spooky ]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0507/devolution.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Gil Rose and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project will perform Devolution, an original piece composed by Northeastern University professor Anthony De Ritis and featuring DJ Spooky (Paul D. Miller) on May 19th at 8 p.m. at the Sanders Theater, as part of the Bank of America Celebrity Series.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Mothers’ Walk for Peace to Feature Memorial Bus Designed by Northeastern University Professor Thomas Starr]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0507/walkforpeace.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[The Louis D. Brown Peace Institute's 11th annual Mother's Walk for Peace will take place this Sunday in Dorchester, featuring a memorial bus designed by Northeastern University professor Thomas Starr that displays quotes from young people who have lost loved ones to violence.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University at BIO 2007]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0507/bio2007.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Several Northeastern University researchers are taking part in the BIO International Convention, the biotechnology industry’s signature annual event, attracting more than 20,000 biotechnology executives, scientists, policymakers and journalists from around the world.&nbsp; This year’s conference, themed “New Ideas. Bold Ventures. Global Benefits.”, is taking place May 6-9 at the Boston Convention &amp; Exhibition Center.&nbsp; ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Launches Graduate Program Designed to Improve Health Care with Information Technology]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0507/informatics.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern University has launched a new graduate program to address a critical shortage of workers in New England who can integrate technology and data into health care, with the goal of improving outcomes for patients. The Master of Science in Health Informatics is currently accepting applications for the fall 2007 semester.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Study Finds African-American Veterans Feel Discriminated Against in Health Care]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0407/veteransreport.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[African-American veterans of the armed forces often struggle to get the health care they need, says a new report from Northeastern University’s Institute on Urban Health Research (IUHR). The report, titled <i>“Health Care Experiences and Health Status of African-American Veterans” </i>was partially funded by the Boston Public Health Commission (BHPC) and the IUHR and was prepared in response to a request from the Tri Ad Veterans League, Inc., a Boston-based grassroots group of African-American veterans.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Honorable Nonnie S. Burnes, Commissioner of the Massachusetts Division of Insurance, to Give Commencement Address at Northeastern University School of Law]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0407/law.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Approximately 200 members of the class of 2007 will officially earn their juris doctor degrees at Northeastern University School of Law’s commencement on Friday, May 25. The Honorable Nonnie S. Burnes, Commissioner of the Massachusetts Division of Insurance, will give the commencement address and will also receive an honorary doctorate of public service.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University to Host Visual Music Marathon]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0407/visualmusic.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[As part of the Boston Cyberarts Festival, Northeastern University will host the Visual Music Marathon, a 12-hour screening of art works that reflect the convergence of musical composition and animated images.&nbsp; The Marathon will take place on Saturday, April 28, from 10am to 10pm in Northeastern's Raytheon Amphitheater.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University and the Tri Ad Veterans League, Inc. to Announce Findings of Pilot Study on African-American Veterans’ Health Experiences and Health Status at Press Conference]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0407/veterans.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern University and the Tri Ad Veterans League, Inc. are holding a press conference to announce the findings of a pilot study, titled <i>“Health Experiences and Health Status of African-American Veterans.”</i> The report was prepared for the Boston Public Health Commission (BHCP). ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA["New Route to Spintronics Materials” Named One of the Best Papers of 2006 by the Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0407/spintronics.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[A paper written by Northeastern University researchers has been named one of the Best Papers of 2006 by The J<i>ournal of Physics: Condensed Matter</i>. The paper, which details a new route to spintronics materials, was&nbsp;selected based on its popularity with readers and the high praise it received from the magazine’s Board and a panel of judges.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University CEO Breakfast Forum Welcomes Scott Griffith, CEO and President of Zipcar]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0407/zipcar.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Scott Griffith, CEO and President of Zipcar, will be the distinguished guest speaker at Northeastern University’s CEO Breakfast Forum on Wednesday, April 25. Griffith will discuss his experiences running the world's largest car sharing service, also highlighting social and economic trends that have contributed to his company’s success.<b></b>]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Professor Appointed to Key Position by the State Secretary of Health and Human Services]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0407/mcguire1.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern University Senior Clinical Professor Dr. Jean Flatley McGuire was appointed Assistant Secretary for Disability Policies and Programs by Massachusetts Secretary of Health and Human Services, JudyAnn Bigby. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[New Research Shows Gelatin-Based Nanoparticle Effective in Gene Therapy for Breast Cancer]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0407/amijipaper.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern professor Mansoor Amiji and graduate student Sushma Kommareddy have published a new paper that examines the potential of engineered gelatin-based nanoparticles to deliver therapeutic genes to human breast cancer tumors implanted in mice.&nbsp; The paper is published in the most recent issue of <i>Cancer Gene Therapy</i>.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Nicholas P. Negroponte To Keynote Northeastern University’s 105th Commencement]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0407/commencement.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Nicholas P. Negroponte, co-founder of the MIT Media Lab and creator of One Laptop per Child, will deliver the commencement address to approximately 2,200 Northeastern University undergraduate students on Saturday, May 5 at 10 a.m. in Boston’s TD Banknorth Garden.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Research Finds External Magnet on Tumor Helps Drugs Get There and Stay Longer]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0407/tumormagnet.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[New research from Northeastern University shows that attracting drug-carrying cationic liposomes (containing magnetite) to tumor vasculature with an externally applied magnet can improve overall distribution of chemotherapeutic drugs in malignant tumors and reduce uptake by healthy tissue.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Calling All Retired Scientists! Northeastern University Seeks Volunteers to Mentor Middle School Science Classes]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0407/reseed.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern University’s RE-SEED program is looking for retirees with professional science backgrounds who can volunteer once a week in middle school science classes in Boston and throughout Massachusetts.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University and School of The Museum Of Fine Arts, Boston, Announce New Joint Degree Programs]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0407/artdegrees.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern today announced the creation of two joint degree programs with the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.&nbsp; Beginning in fall 2007, Northeastern and SMFA will offer a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) and a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Studio Art.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[CDC Director to Talk About Infectious Diseases in the U.S. at Northeastern University]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0407/cdclecture.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern University will host a lecture on April 4th titled “HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis and STD Prevention in the United States: Current Challenges and Future Directions” by Dr. Kevin Fenton, Director at the U.S. Centers for Disease Controls and Prevention.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Unique Database Seeks to Inform Product Developers and Policymakers of Food Consumption Habits and Preferences in France, the UK and Germany ]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0407/rabino.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[In a new paper, Northeastern University Professor of Marketing Samuel Rabino (left), Dr. Howard Moskowitz, President of Moskowitz and Jacobs Inc. and colleagues analyze the consumption patterns of 6,700 respondents’ evaluation of 22 food and beverage products in three countries, creating a comprehensive database of their findings.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[BusinessWeek Ranks Northeastern University's Undergraduate Business School 26th in the U.S., Third in Massachusetts]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0307/businessranking.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Northeastern University’s College of Business Administration announced that its undergraduate business school is ranked 26th in the U.S. in <em>BusinessWeek</em>’s second annual ranking of the top 50 best undergraduate business schools. It was also ranked No. 1 in the Internship category and 8th among private colleges for return on students’ investment (ROI).]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Nursing Faculty Sweep Awards]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0307/bouve.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[Four Northeastern University nursing professors are being honored with awards by two organizations, the Massachusetts Association of Colleges of Nursing (MACN) and the Eastern Nursing Research Society (ENRS). Dr. Angela Nannini, Dr. Natalie McClain and Ms. Mary Mayville are receiving MACN’s Innovative Teaching Award, the Early Career Award for Full-time Faculty and the Early Career Award for Part-time Faculty, respectively.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Psychologist Awarded NSF Grant to Explore How Emotions Compel Humans to Build Reciprocal Relationships ]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0307/nsfgrant.html</link>
	 <description><![CDATA[A political candidate finds a briefcase full of damaging information on his opponent. While the candidate could surely capitalize by making this information public, he chooses not to. The reason: his opponent helped him two weeks prior by sticking up for him on television.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Hosts Former DNC Chairman Terry McAuliffe]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0107/dnc.html</link>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Hosts Third Annual Beanpot of Comedy]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0107/improv.html</link>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Receives $1.2m from The W.M. Keck Foundation For Development of Innovative Nanodevices]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0107/keck.html</link>
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<title><![CDATA[Widow of Slain Civil Rights Leader to Keynote Northeastern University's Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Convocation ]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0107/mlk.html</link>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University's NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center for High-Rate Nanomanufacturing (CHN) to Host Industry Day Showcase]]></title>	 
<link>http://www.neu.edu/nupr/news/0107/nanoevent.html</link>
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern's Unique PASTEL Program Highlighted at International "Science &amp; Society: Closing the Gap" Conference]]></title>	 
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Professor Creates Interactive Speech Therapy Tool for Children]]></title>	 
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Seeking Artist Submissions for Visual Music Marathon ]]></title>	 
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Junior Shatters The Computer Science Glass Ceiling For Her "CISters"]]></title>	 
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Showcases Research at 2007 Research &amp; Scholarship Expo ]]></title>	 
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Hosts Lecture on Jewish Magic and Mysticism ]]></title>	 
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern's Department of Visual Arts Features Guest Lecturer Pam Longobardi]]></title>	 
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Hosts Lecture as Part of Its Second Annual Visual Arts Lecture Series ]]></title>	 
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Scientist Receives Prestigious Pharmaceutical Sciences Award ]]></title>	 
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Hosts "Jewish Magic, Magical Judaism" Lecture ]]></title>	 
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern University Celebrates Entrepreneurship With Week of Events for Students and Community]]></title>	 
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<title><![CDATA[NU Launches&nbsp;Gender&nbsp;Matters&nbsp;Lecture&nbsp;Series]]></title>	 
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<title><![CDATA[Northeastern Receives&nbsp;Record&nbsp;30,000&nbsp;Applications]]></title>	 
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<title><![CDATA[Student&nbsp;Group Provides&nbsp;Classes&nbsp;in&nbsp;23&nbsp;Languages]]></title>	 
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<title><![CDATA[New&nbsp;Music&nbsp;Magazine for&nbsp;the&nbsp;Students, by the Students]]></title>	 
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