Joseph E. Aoun, a leader in higher education policy and a renowned scholar in linguistics, is the seventh President of Northeastern University.
President Aoun has strategically aligned the University’s research enterprise with three global imperatives—health, security, and sustainability. Northeastern’s faculty focus on interdisciplinary research, entrepreneurship, and transforming academic research into commercial solutions for the world’s most pressing problems. During President Aoun’s tenure, the University has realized a 189 percent growth in external research funding, along with approximately 1,500 patent applications filed by faculty and students.
Sports editor, Matt Pepin will lead a conversation with Globe columnist Chad Finn, who edited the newly released Boston Globe book that chronicles the history of the Boston Red Sox through the original Globe coverage that documented it, will discuss the process of creating the book, sifting through hundreds of articles and photographs in the Globe's archives, and how the history of the two institutions is intertwined throughout.
Purchase "Story of the Red Sox" from Black Dog & Leventhal to enjoy this beautiful hardcover book that includes more than 300 articles chronicling the team's rich history as told through the lens of the Globe plus hundreds of photographs documenting every era of our hometown team and a foreword from beloved former Sox pitcher and broadcaster Dennis Eckersley.
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