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.
Join the virtual discussion featuring Liz Whitelam the owner/operator of Whitelam Books, along with Ellen Ruppel Shell, author of "Slippery Beast."
Widely praised by NPR, the Wall Street Journal, and other outlets, selected as one of six “must reads” of 2024 by the Nature Conservancy and penned with what Publishers Weekly describes as a “novelist’s gift,” Slippery Beast: A High Crime Natural History, With Eels” is a thrilling read for readers of suspense, history, true crime, nature, human drama and business. The eel’s closely held secrets have perplexed great thinkers from Aristotle to Freud, and continue to stump scientists today, as its numbers plummet to frightening levels. The freshwater eel, a great delicacy that in its infancy is by weight more valuable than any other creature on earth, has in recent years become the target of crime syndicates the world over, its very existence threatened by its burgeoning appeal. This is a story of a once ubiquitous and always fascinating fish whose influence on the natural world—and on each of us—will not fail to surprise even the most ardent fisher or consumer of unagi.
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