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Northeastern alumni around their communities celebrated Welcome to Your City Week. This event was designed to welcome newcomers to their communities and gave Northeastern alumni a chance to reconnect and get to know each other. Whether they had just moved to their city, relocated during the pandemic or have lived there since graduation, they had the chance to meet new Northeastern alumni and learn about exciting upcoming events and opportunities in their region. In times like this, it was the perfect way to say connected to the Pack!
Northeastern alumni around their communities celebrated Welcome to Your City Week. This event was designed to welcome newcomers to their communities and gave Northeastern alumni a chance to reconnect and get to know each other. Whether they had just moved to their city, relocated during the pandemic or have lived there since graduation, they had the chance to meet new Northeastern alumni and learn about exciting upcoming events and opportunities in their region. In times like this, it was the perfect way to say connected to the Pack!
Falling Walls Lab was a platform for excellent academics, entrepreneurs and professionals from all disciplines who wanted to present their research work, business model, innovative project or transformative idea in front of their peers and a distinguished jury from academia and business. This was presented by Northeastern University, the German Consulate in Boston, and the German Center for Research and Innovation in New York.
The Global Resilience Institute (GRI) presented its recent work with FEMA. The featured panelists were Stephen Flynn, director of the GRI; and Alicia Sasser Modestino, research director for the Dukakis Center. This was part of the Fall 2020 Myra Kraft Open Classroom.
The twelfth annual Women in the Law Conference was presented by the Northeastern University School of Law. This conference provided career guidance and professional development growth to women attorneys and other professionals at all stages of their careers and brought together powerful decisionmakers from Massachusetts, Alaska, Canada, California, Illinois, New York, Washington, DC, and beyond. The keynote speaker was Michele Coleman Mayes, Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary for the New York Public Library.
This was a screening of two student presentations: The 2019-2020 Gideon Klein project, an original animated film by Yael Sheinfeld ’21, based on a children’s book, The Children’s Tree of Terezin; and a presentation by Jessie Sigler ’20 about her project to increase accessibility to the Northeastern Holocaust Awareness Archives, especially the trove of survivor testimonies. This was part of the postponed 2020 Holocaust and Genocide Awareness Week presented by the College of Social Sciences and Humanities at Northeastern.
The Northeastern University School of Law kicked off a new annual conference series celebrating the Public Interest Law Scholars Program. Each year, they will focus on scholarship related to a pressing public interest issue. The Battle for Voting Rights in 2020 virtual half-day conference covered several topics including voting purges, threats to polling locations, voter intimidation, machine malfunctions, and voter suppression.
The 2019-2020 "Authority and Subversion" Fellowship discussed whistleblowing with the speakers: Allison Stanger, Professor of International Politics and Economics at Middlebury College, David Sanger, New York Times correspondent and author Lida Maxwell, Associate Professor of Political Science and WGSS at Boston University.
Microservices are an emerging class of workloads being run on cloud computing platforms. The core reason for current practices is “fear and anxiety of uncertainty” and “not lack of a more efficient solution”. In this talk, Dr. Tiwari will discuss a new principled, calm approach to control that fear and anxiety.
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