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.
As Black Lives Matter protests dominate the national stage, theaters shuttered by COVID-19 remain closed indefinitely. The hiatus is a chance for the theater industry to consider its past, present, and future, and its role in the racial justice movement. What forms does racism take in the theater? How must the industry change in terms of the environment and opportunities created for Black actors, directors, playwrights, and audiences? How can this moment of national reckoning be reflected onstage? Globe critic Don Aucoin talks with four leading Black theater artists about their experiences and insights, as well as their hopes for their own work and for theater in Boston.
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Don Aucoin is the Globe’s theater critic. He was part of the team that wrote the top-10 New York Times best-seller “Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy” (Simon & Schuster, 2009), and his story on race relations in Boston is included in the book “Best Newspaper Writing 2006-2007.” In 2000-2001, he was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.
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