- 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.
- 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
- Shawn Fanning
Shawn "Napster" Fanning (born November 22, 1980, Brockton, Massachusetts<sup></sup>), is a computer programmer. He is best known for developing "Napster", the first popular peer-to-peer filesharing platform, in 1998.
- 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, …
- M. Shahid Alam
Bio: M. Shahid Alam is a professor of economics at Northeastern University, Boston.
- 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, …
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Patrick Manning
Patrick Manning is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of World History at the University of Pittsburgh. He is also president of the World History Network, Inc., a nonprofit corporation fostering research in world history. A specialist in world history and African history, his current research addresses global historiography, early human history, migration in world history, the African diaspora, and the demography of African slavery.
- Bernard Shaw
Bernard Shaw (born May 22, 1940 in Chicago, Illinois) was a leading news anchor for CNN from 1980 to his retirement in 2001. He attended the University of Illinois at Chicago from 1963 to 1968. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps. Shaw is widely remembered for the question he posed to Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Michael Dukakis at his second Presidential debate with George H. W. Bush during the 1988 election, which Shaw was moderating.
- 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.
- 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.
- Martha Davis
Martha Davis is a Professor of Law at Northeastern University in Boston. She authored the book <i>Brutal Need</i>, a study of the welfare rights movement of 1960 to 1973. Before joining the faculty of Northeastern, she served as chair of the NOW legal defense fund.
- 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, …
- 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.
- Ron Everhart
Ron Everhart is the head men's basketball coach at Duquesne University. Previously, he held the same position at Northeastern University and McNeese State University.
- Bob Davoli
Bob joined Sigma in 1995. He has 20 years of experience in the high technology industry. Most recently he was President and CEO of Epoch Systems, the leading vendor of client-server data management software products. He sold the firm in 1993 to EMC for $141 million. Previously, he was the Founder, President and CEO of SQL Solutions, a leading purveyor of services and tools for the relational database market.
- 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, …
- Rocky Hager
Rocky Hager is an American football coach, currently the head coach of Northeastern University. Rocky Hager is a native of Harvey, North Dakota and a 1974 graduate of Minot State College. He was the head coach for the North Dakota State Bison football team from 1987-1996. Hager was hired as the 10th Husky head coach in 2003.
- 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.
- Jim Fahey
James Fahey (born May 11, 1979 in Boston, Massachusetts) is a professional ice hockey defenseman who currently plays for the New Jersey Devils of the NHL. Fahey was drafted in the 8th round, 212th overall, by the San Jose Sharks in the 1998 NHL Entry Draft. Before becoming a professional hockey player, Jim was a member of the Dorchester, MA (Greater Boston Youth Hockey League), Tier 2 National Championship Midget Team in 1996, …
- Karl Klare
Karl E. Klare is a Matthews Distinguished University Professor of labor and employment law and legal theory at Northeastern University School of Law in Boston, Massachusetts, and the current coordinator of the International Network on Transformative Employment and Labor Law (INTELL). He has written and lectured extensively on labor and employment issues, and is a notable proponent of the critical legal studies movement.
- 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.
- 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.
- Bill Coen
Bill Coen is the head men's basketball coach at the Northeastern University.
- Tim Howard
P. Tim Howard is the director of and a faculty member for Northeastern University's Executive Doctorate Program in Law & Policy. In 2005, he received his Ph.D., from Northeastern University in Law, Policy & Society, after defending his thesis "We've Been Framed!: Progressive Cause Lawyer Leadership in Florida Tobacco Liability Litigation". He received his Juris Doctor from Florida State University in 1986, with English Legal History coursework at Oxford.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Don McPherson
Donald G. McPherson (born April 2 1965 in Brooklyn, New York) was an NFL and CFL quarterback drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles in 1988 after a college career at Syracuse University during which he won the Maxwell Award and finished second in the 1987 Heisman Trophy voting. He also played for the Houston Oilers and for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Ottawa Rough-Riders.
- George L. Kelling
George L. Kelling is a Professor at Rutgers University, a Research Fellow at Harvard University, and an Adjunct Fellow at the Manhattan Institute. He previously taught at Northeastern University. Dr. Kelling earned his Ph.D. in Social welfare from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1973 under Dr. Alfred Kadushin. Kelling also received an M.S.W. degree from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a B.A. degree in Philosophy from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota.
- 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", …
- Dan McGillis
Dan McGillis (born July 1, 1972 in Hawkesbury, Ontario) is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenseman currently under contract with the NHL's New Jersey Devils. He has also played with the Edmonton Oilers, Philadelphia Flyers, San Jose Sharks, and Boston Bruins. McGillis was drafted by the Detroit Red Wings in the 10th round, 238th overall in the 1992 NHL Entry Draft.
- Jim Walsh
Jim Walsh (born October 26, 1956, in Norfolk, Virginia) is a former professional ice hockey defenceman. After playing hockey at Northeastern University, he played four games in the National Hockey League with the Buffalo Sabres in the 1981-82 season, recording one assist and four penalty minutes.
- 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.
- John A. Curry
John A. Curry was the President of Northeastern University (Boston) from 1989 to 1996. Prior to serving as President, Curry was the University's Exeutive Vice President. Curry is the first alumnus to serve as Northeastern's President. During Curry's tenure, Northeastern University built a new science and engineering research center, a state-of-the-art classroom building, a recreation complex, and added new undergraduate and graduate programs.
- Carlos Peña
Carlos Felipe Peña is a left-handed first baseman for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. He is now in third place for the home run ranking in the 2007 season within the American League. He attended Haverhill High School, Haverhill, Massachusetts, Wright State University and Northeastern University. As a collegiate player, he competed in the Cape Cod League, which showcases top amateur prospects every summer. He was a member of the Wareham Gatemen in 1997.
- Shawn McEachern
Shawn McEachern (born 28 February, 1969 in Waltham, Massachusetts) is a retired National Hockey League forward and current assistant coach for the Northeastern University Huskies collegiate hockey program. During his stint a a professional, he tallied 254 goals and 317 assists during a 13-year NHL career with the Boston Bruins, Pittsburgh Penguins, Los Angeles Kings, Ottawa Senators and Atlanta Thrashers. The forward has twice scored over 30 goals in a season, …
- 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.