- M. Shahid Alam
Bio: M. Shahid Alam is a professor of economics at Northeastern University, Boston.
- Karl Lieberherr
Karl J. Lieberherr is a Professor of Computer Science at Northeastern University, in Boston. He is known as the father of adaptive programming. He did his studies at ETH Zurich, obtaining an M.S. in 1973 and a Ph.D. in 1977. He wrote the first book about adaptive programming. The work on this theme was one of several secondary influences on the development of aspect-oriented programming. Adaptive programming tries to create applications that are easy to maintain and evolve, …
- Jack Levin
Jack Levin, Ph.D. is the Irving and Betty Brudnick Professor of Sociology and Criminology at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts where he teaches courses in prejudice and violence. He specializes in Criminology, Prejudice, Social Psychology, and Aging/Social Gerontology and is widely regarded as one of the foremost authorities on serial killers, mass murderers, and hate crimes.
- Matthias Felleisen
Matthias Felleisen is a computer science professor and an author of German background. Felleisen is currently a Trustee Professor in the College of Computer and Information Science at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. In the past he has taught at Rice University. Felleisen's interests include design of programming tools, web programming, and software contracts for software applications.
- Pran Nath
Pran Nath is a physicist at Northeastern University, concentrating in theoretical particle physics. He holds a Matthews Distinguished University Professor chair. His research is in Theoretical Elementary Particle Physics, mainly in the fields of supergravity and Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Models. He was the first chair for the annual PASCOS symposium ("PA"rticle physics, "S"tring theory and "COS"mology) in 1990 and again in 1991.
- Michael Dukakis
Michael Stanley Dukakis (born November 3, 1933) is an American Democratic politician, former Governor of Massachusetts, and the Democratic presidential nominee in 1988. He was born to Greek-immigrant parents in Brookline, Massachusetts and was the longest serving governor in Massachusetts' history
- Reggie Lewis
Reggie Lewis (November 21 1965 - July 27 1993) was a basketball player for the Boston Celtics from 1987-1993. He averaged 20.8 points per game in each of his last two seasons with the Celtics, and finished with a career average of 17.6 points per contest. His #35 jersey was retired by the Celtics as a memorial to him. Born in Baltimore, Lewis played his college ball in Boston at Northeastern University, …
- Harlan Lane
Harlan Lane is a professor of psychology and linguistics at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States. He specializes in research on Deaf culture and sign language. In 1991, Professor Lane received a MacArthur Foundation "genius award". He has become an often controversial spokesman for the Deaf community and critic of cochlear implants. Dr. Lane's baccalaureate and master's degrees are in psychology from Columbia University.
- Joseph E. Aoun
President Aoun participates in panel discussion convened by MassInsight as part of a three-day conference on the future of global partnerships among the United States, China, and India. ... President Aoun gives remarks at the Faculty Senate meeting , stressing opportunity during the current economic downturn.
- Albert Sacco
Albert Sacco, Jr. (born May 3, 1949) is an American astronaut and chemical engineer who flew as the Payload Specialist on the Space Shuttle Columbia on shuttle mission STS-73 in 1995. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Sacco completed a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Northeastern University in Boston in 1973, and then a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1977.
- Gregory Jarvis
Gregory Bruce Jarvis (August 24, 1944 - January 28, 1986) was an American astronaut who died during the destruction of the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51-L, where he was serving as payload specialist. He received a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University at Buffalo (SUNY) in 1967, and a Master's in the same discipline from Northeastern University in 1969. Jarvis joined the Air Force the same year and served until 1973, being discharged as a Captain.
- Richard Deth
Richard Deth, Ph.D., is a neuropharmacologist, professor of pharmacology at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts and is on the scientific advisory board of the National Autism Association. Deth has become a significant voice in the escalating controversies in autism and vaccine controversy, due to his ongoing research backing his theory that certain children are more at risk than others because they lack the normal ability to excrete neurotoxic metals.
- Richard Egan
Richard (Dick) J. Egan was born in 1930 and as a co-founder of EMC Corporation was a successful Massachusetts business leader in the 20th century. A year after receiving a degree in electrical engineering from Northeastern University in 1962, he was on the team that helped develop Project Apollo memory systems for NASA.
- George Chamillard
George Chamillard is an American business executive most famous for his roles at Teradyne, a manufacturer of automatic test equipment for semiconductor devices. Rising through the ranks at Teradyne over his more than 35 years there, Chamillard eventually headed the corporation as President and COO, appointed in 1996 to fill these roles upon the departure of Alex d'Arbeloff, one of the two founders. 1997 saw him also assume the title of CEO.
- Terry Carter
Terry Carter (born December 16, 1928 in Brooklyn, New York as John E. DeCoste) is an African-American actor / filmmaker who is perhaps best remembered for his roles as "Sgt. Joe Broadhurst", on the seven year hit TV series "McCloud" and as "Colonel Tigh" on the original "Battlestar Galactica". Carter graduated from the elite Stuyvesant High School in New York City in 1946. He attended Hunter College, St. John's University Law School, …
- Damien Fahey
Damien Richard Fahey (born June 1, 1980) is an MTV VJ. Fahey grew up in Chicopee, Massachusetts, and moved to the town of Longmeadow, Massachusetts during the summer of 1992. It was there that he attended Williams Middle School and then Longmeadow High School before being admitted to Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts where he majored in communication studies.
- Michelle Bonner
Michelle Bonner joined ESPN in March 2005 as an ESPNEWS anchor and occasionally anchors "SportsCenter", ESPN’s flagship sports news program. Bonner came to ESPN from CNN in Atlanta, Ga., where she was a sports anchor from 2003–2005. Prior to CNN, Bonner was a sports anchor at Fox Sports in Los Angeles (2002–2003), the main sports anchor at Los Angeles’ KCOP-TV (1999-2002), and a sports anchor/reporter at KRIV-TV in Houston (1997-1999).
- James Franklin Jeffrey
James Franklin Jeffrey was sworn in as U.S. Ambassador to Albania on October 15, 2002. Mr. Jeffrey is a Minister-Counselor in the Senior Foreign Service; he joined the Foreign Service in 1977. His most recent assignments were as Deputy Chief of Mission to Ankara, 1999-2002, and to Kuwait, 1996-1999. He also has served in Tunis, Sofia, Munich, Adana, and on a first assignment to Ankara in 1985-1987. In the Department, Mr. Jeffrey has served as Senior Greek Desk Officer, …
- Michael Ryan
Michael Ryan (born May 16, 1980 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA) is an American ice hockey forward. He was drafted by the Dallas Stars in the second round, 32nd overall, in the 1999 NHL Entry Draft. Ryan's rights were traded by the Stars to the Buffalo Sabres, along with a draft pick, on March 10, 2003, in exchange for Stu Barnes. After playing four seasons for Northeastern University, Ryan made his professional debut with the Sabres' American Hockey League affiliate, …
- Dave Leitao
Dave Leitao (born May 18 1960) is the 10th and current University of Virginia Cavaliers men's basketball coach. The 6'7" forward was recruited by Jim Calhoun to play basketball at Northeastern University. From 1978 to 1982 Leitao played at Northeastern, where he averaged 6.0 points and 5.4 rebounds per game. The teams made it to the NCAA tournament twice, and posted an overall 79-34 record.
- Will McDonough
William "Will" McDonough gave the American Football League honest exposure in his articles and columns in a nationally prominent newspaper, the "Boston Globe". Up until his death from a heart attack at the age of sixty seven, he had attended every AFL-NFL World Championship game and every Super Bowl. His knowledge of the game of professional football, his ability to get "the inside story", …
- William M. Fowler
Dr. William Morgan Fowler, Jr. is a professor of history at Northeastern University, Boston and an author. He served as Director of the Massachusetts Historical Society from 1998 through 2005.
- Don Orsillo
Don Orsillo joined NESN in April 2001 as the network's voice of Boston Red Sox baseball. Honored with two New England Emmy Awards, Orsillo was also named the 2005 Massachusetts Sportscaster of the Year by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association.
- Dana Fabe
Dana Fabe (born 1951) has been a member of the Alaska Supreme Court since 1995. She was Chief Justice from 2000 to 2003. She was both the first woman to be appointed to Alaska's highest court, and the Court's first female Chief Justice. She attended Cornell University (BA 1973) and Northeastern Law School (JD 1976). Justice Fabe has been reelected to serve as Chief Justice again in 2006, and will serve from 2006 until 2009.
- Jerald G. Fishman
Jerald G. Fishman has served as Chief Executive Officer and President of Analog Devices since November 1996. He is a 35 year veteran of Analog Devices and also serves on the Board of Directors of Cognex Corporation and Xilinx Inc. Fishman holds an MBA from the Boston University Graduate School of Management, a Master in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University, a Juris Doctor from Suffolk University, …
- Daniel Gorenstein
Daniel E. Gorenstein (January 1, 1923-August 26, 1992) was an American mathematician. He earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees at Harvard University, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1950 under Oscar Zariski, introducing in his dissertation Gorenstein rings. He worked on commutative algebra, and then was a major influence on the classification of finite simple groups. After teaching mathematics to military personnel at Harvard before earning his doctorate, …
- Nicholas Daniloff
Nicholas Daniloff is an American journalist who graduated from Harvard University and was most prominent in the 1980s for his reporting on the Soviet Union. He came to wider international attention on September 2, 1986 when he was arrested in Moscow by the KGB and accused of espionage. The Reagan administration took the position that the Soviets had arrested Daniloff without cause, in retaliation for the arrest three days earlier of Gennadi Zakharov, …
- Alex Garcia
Alex Garcia is a Nuevo Latino chef who helped popularize a version of Cuban food at several New York City restaurants and on the Food Network. After spending a few years working as a waiter, Alex attended Northeastern University in Massachusetts where he earned a degree in hotel and restaurant management. He later attended the Culinary Institute of America, and Florida International University.
- Gary Braver
Gary Braver is a fiction writer. His most recent novel, a medical thriller called "Flashback", was published in the fall of 2005. He has written four medical thrillers using his real name, Gary Goshgarian, and three under the pen name Gary Braver. Goshgarian is currently a professor at Northeastern University in Boston.
- Nat Hentoff
Nat Hentoff contributes regularly to Village Voice and The Wall Street Journal . Among other publications in which his work has appeared are The New York Times , The New Republic , Commonwealth , The Atlantic , and The New Yorker , where he was a staff writer for more than 25 years.
- Peter Franchot
Peter V. R. Franchot (born November 25, 1947) has been the Comptroller of Maryland since January 2007. He was formerly a member of the Maryland House of Delegates, representing the 20th legislative district in Montgomery County, Maryland from 1987 to 2007.
- Muhammad Mahmood Alam
Muhammad Mahmood Alam or shortly M. M. Alam is a retired Air Commodore of Pakistan Air Force. He is a recipient of the Pakistani military decoration, the Sitara-e-Jurrat ("The star of courage") and a bar to it for his actions during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965. He was born July 6, 1935 in Calcutta, British India. He is popularly known as "M.M. Alam" and nicknamed "Peanut" due to his short stature. He hailed from East Pakistan.
- Yale Patt
Yale Nance Patt is an American professor of electrical and computer engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. He holds the Ernest Cockrell, Jr. Centennial Chair in Engineering. In 1965, Patt introduced the WOS module, the first complex logic gate implemented on a single piece of silicon. He is a fellow of both the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the Association for Computing Machinery.
- Nancy Kindelan
Nancy Kindelan, Ph.D., is currently a Associate Professor of Theater at Northeastern University. Her subjects of concentration include theater in society, Modernism, and script analysis. In June 2004 she won the University's Excellence in Teaching award. Dr. Kindelan is the author of "Shadows of Realism: Dramaturgy and the Theories and Practices of Modernism" (1997, ISBN 0313297363).
- Martín Espada
Martín Espada is a poet and professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he teaches creative writing and Latino poetry. Puerto Rico has frequently been featured as a theme in his poems. Espada was born in Brooklyn, New York. He was introduced to political activism at an early age by his father, a leader in the Puerto Rican community and the civil rights movement.
- Sharon McPhail
Sharon McPhail has served on the Detroit City Council since 2002 and was a candidate for mayor in the 1993 and 2005 Detroit elections. She was formerly a lawyer in private practice, a division chief in the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office, and an Assistant United States Attorney.
- Chris Nilan
Christopher "Chris" Nilan (born February 9, 1958 in Boston, Massachusetts) is a former professional ice hockey player. He played as a right-wing for the Montreal Canadiens, Boston Bruins, and New York Rangers. Known as "Knuckles," he was famous for his propensity to fight. Chris Nilan was selected 231st overall in the 1978 NHL Entry Draft, and was best known as a tough-guy for the Montreal Canadians in the mid 1980's.
- Mike Jarvis
Mike Jarvis is a sports commentator and former NCAA basketball coach at Boston University, George Washington University, and St. John's University. He also works as a commentator for college basketball games on ESPN. His career college coaching record in over 18 seasons is 364-201 and is one of four Division I coaches to have won 100 games at three different colleges.
- Fernie Flaman
Ferdinand Charles "Fernie" Flaman (born January 25, 1927 in Dysart, Saskatchewan) was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who played for the Boston Bruins and Toronto Maple Leafs in the National Hockey League, notable as a hardrock defensive defenceman and a consummate bodychecker.
- Soumodip Sarkar
Soumodip Sarkar is a noted economist and university professor, a leader in the field of entrepreneurship and innovation in management. He is an associate professor of the Department of Management, University of Évora, Évora, Portugal. Dr. Sarkar did his graduate studies at Northeastern University, in Boston, Massachusetts, USA where he got a Ph.D. He worked at the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) and later at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, …