<img width="230" height="153" src="http://www.northeastern.edu/news/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/headstart600-230x153.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="headstart600" style="float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;" />Action for Boston Community Development, a local organization that empowers community members to overcome poverty, honored Northeastern on Friday for its support for ABCD Head Start and Children’s Services programs.
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<img width="230" height="153" src="http://www.northeastern.edu/news/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/bootstrap600-230x153.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="Computer Science Video Game Volunteers" style="float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;" />Northeastern students volunteered at a local middle school during the spring semester to teach kids using a free curriculum called Bootstrap.
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<img width="230" height="153" src="http://www.northeastern.edu/news/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/600file-230x153.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="600file" style="float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;" />Journalism professor Walter Robinson examines how the Department of Justice’s investigation into The Associated Press impacts an already strained relationship between the White House and the press.
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<img width="230" height="153" src="http://www.northeastern.edu/news/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/neu123715_highres-230x153.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="Robo Lobster Competition" style="float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;" />Northeastern doctoral candidate Daniel Blustein developed a curriculum to introduce middle school students to biomimetic science, the focus of his own research.
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<img width="230" height="153" src="http://www.northeastern.edu/news/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/cowan600-230x153.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="cowan600" style="float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;" />At a reception with members of Congress and more than 200 alumni, Northeastern President Joseph E. Aoun honored Mo Cowan, who is filling the seat vacated by now-Secretary of State John Kerry.
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<img width="230" height="153" src="http://www.northeastern.edu/news/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/neu51506_highres-230x153.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="Thomas Webster" style="float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;" />Chemical engineering professor Thomas Webster’s team developed an injectable, conductive material to regenerate heart tissue after either a heart attack or cardiac disease.
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<img width="230" height="153" src="http://www.northeastern.edu/news/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/neu123887_lowres-230x153.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="Japanese Earthquake Architecture" style="float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;" />A traveling exhibit on how Japan's architectural community responded to the Great East Japan Earthquake is at Northeastern, the sole U.S. stop on a global tour.
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<img width="230" height="153" src="http://www.northeastern.edu/news/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/krentzman600-230x153.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="Campus Buildings" style="float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;" />This spring, 4,785 alumni enthusiastically participated in a challenge issued by 1983 graduate Mike MacWade to make a gift supporting something they loved about their alma mater.
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<img width="230" height="153" src="http://www.northeastern.edu/news/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/cryan-230x153.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" style="float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;" />Climate change may impact the incidence and severity of a toxic species of algae, according to research by recent environmental studies graduate Ashley Cryan.
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<img width="230" height="153" src="http://www.northeastern.edu/news/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/studentveterans600-230x153.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="051113_NEUVeterans_SEISEN_0265.jpg" style="float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;" />Northeastern hosted Student Veteran Appreciation Day on Saturday, a daylong symposium featuring a series of discussions, workshops, and networking opportunities for the young service men and women.
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