Portfolio

2008

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  Children of Drancy
  The play, Children of Drancy: a montage of voices, was created entirely from letters, archival documents, as well as the poetry and drawings of victims of the arrest and deportation of Jews, including 11,400 children, from French concentration camps to Auschwitz during the German occupation of France, 1940-1944. Most were deported from Drancy, a concentration camp outside of Paris.
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  IGERT Intelligent Diagnostics
  This National Science Foundation supported IGERT program has been devleoped to meet the challenges of educating U. S. Ph.D scientists and engineers who will pursue careers in research and education using their interdisciplinary backgrounds, acquired knowledge in specific disciplines, and technical, profressional, and personal skills to become leaders and creative agens for change.
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  Awareness and Localization of Exposives-Related Threats (ALERT)
  The Department of Homeland Security recently awarded a Centers of Excellence grant to Northeastern's Bernard M. Gordon Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems (CenSSIS) to establish a center called ALERT (Awareness and Localization of Explosive-Related Threats)
  
  As reported in The Northeastern Voice (Vol. 20, No.

2007

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  Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing
  Northeastern University has announced that Dr. Carol Glod, APRN, PhD, FAAN, research director and professor of nursing, has received a federal traineeship grant in the amount of $625,000 from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to expand the university's graduate child psychiatric nursing program.
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  Environmental Justice Research Collaborative
  The Northeastern Environmental Justice Research Collaborative (NEJRC) is a multidisciplinary research collaborative made up of scholars, activists, and policy makers in New England engaged in the study of political ecology and environmental justice initiatives.
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  Regional Interpreter Education Center
  The Northeastern University Regional Interpreter Education Center is a proud member of the National Consortium of Interpreter Education Centers (NCIEC).
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  American Lyceum
  The EdTech Center created a website to support and promote the NEH grant-funded workshop: 'THE AMERICAN LYCEUM AND PUBLIC CULTURE: THE ORATORY OF IDEALISM, OPPORTUNITY, AND ABOLITION IN THE 19TH CENTURY' in May 2007.
  
  Description of the workshop:
  In these workshops we will revisit a seminal period in American intellectual and social history, the growth of the American Lyceum.
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  Minority Faculty Development
  The EdTech Center created a Web site that would serve as the official site for the 21st Century engineering faculty workshop and directly support the MFDF's mission to provide an ongoing mechanism to support the career development and retention of junior faculty. The site included the application, pre-conference survey, and workshop schedule.
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  Center for High-Rate Nanomanufacturing
  In the fall of 2004, the National Science Foundation awarded Northeastern University and its partners, the University of Massachusetts Lowell, the University of New Hampshire, Michigan State University and the Museum of Science, a Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center for High-Rate Nanomanufacturing with funding of $12.4 million over five years.

2006

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  Shannon Community Safety Initiative
  The Massachusetts legislature recently provided $11 million for anti-gang grants through the Senator Charles E. Shannon, Jr. Community Safety Initiative (Shannon CSI).
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  CURP Survey
  In 2003, Northeastern University's Center For Urban and Regional Policy designed a self-assesment questionnaire and accompanying analysis for 12 cities in Massachusetts. They worked in collaboration with the Massachusetts Chapter of the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (NAIOP), the NAIOP foundation, the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs.
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  Keck 3d Microscope
  Website to support research conducted with Keck Microscpe at NU by scientists at NU and other institutions. Includes scheduling capability, registration database, sample images database.
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  WebGuru
  NSF-funded grant website on how to do undergraduate research.
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  Word of Mouth Communication Study
  The Word-of-Mouth Communication Study is a research project spearheaded by Northeastern University's Communication Department, working in collaboration with BzzAgent. The goal of the project is to learn more about the phenomenon of word-of-mouth communication as it occurs in everyday conversations.
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  'Get Rich Slow'
  Get Rich Slow is a game-based seminar, developed by the EdTech Center for Boston College's Center for Retirement Research, in which participants respond to questions about financial concepts and make financial decisions for a fictional character in order to learn about major financial planning issues faced by women at four different ages/life stages.

2004

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  ICEFISH
  Biology Professor Bill Detrich and a team of 30 scientists from around the world are on board the Nathaniel B. Palmer research vessel for the ICEFISH 2004 Cruise.