Join us for an evening of excellent food, great friends and exceptional Insights.
Universities are defined by many things — their faculty, their research, their students, their buildings and landscape. Nothing however, defines a University more than the knowledge, excellence and achievement that takes place in the synapses between these defining features.
Insights, a faculty lecture and dinner series, offers you an opportunity to be dinner guests with Northeastern's finest.
Each Insights evening, we will bring you award-winning and nationally-recognized faculty, staff, and researchers, engaging you in a discourse from multiple disciplines.
Dates:
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
The Federal Reserve and its Impact on the United States
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Turning the Corner: U.S. Economic Policy and National Recovery
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Moving Toward a More Efficient Use of Energy
Cost:
$39 individual, $62 couple
All Insights lectures include a dinner and dessert reception.
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$1 of your event registration fee will benefit The Northeastern Fund.
Insights Spring 2009 Program
The Federal Reserve and its Impact on the United States
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Alumni Center, 716 Columbus Avenue, 6th Floor
The Federal Reserve System controls the nation’s money supply and regulates banks, with the aim of providing a safe and stable monetary and financial system. While most people have heard of "The Fed", few people understand what it does and how it operates. This lecture will provide an overview on how the Federal Reserve controls money and the U.S. banking system, how its actions can impact presidential elections, and its expanded role in the recent financial crisis.
Speaker:
Emery A. Trahan
Donald J. Harding Professor of Finance,
College of Business Administration
Professor Trahan teaches classes in corporate finance, valuation, financial strategy, and mergers and acquisitions at Northeastern. He is also an instructor in several executive education programs and the high-tech MBA program at Northeastern. His paper, “Is What is Best for Employees Best for Shareholders?” co-published with Olubunmi Faleye, was named to the top 10 percent of papers presented at the 2006 Financial Management Association meeting.
Turning the Corner: U.S. Economic Policy and National Recovery
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Alumni Center, 716 Columbus Avenue, 6th Floor
The U.S. economy is moving through its most difficult time since the Great Depression. Under President-Elect Barack Obama, the federal government is attempting to "jolt" the economy back into high gear with a promise to add 2.5 million new jobs by 2012. This "jolt" takes the form of a massive federal stimulus plus financial support to key sectors of the economy. Can it work? Join us to find out.
Speaker:
Barry Bluestone
Dean, School of Social Science, Urban Affairs, and Public Policy; Director, Kitty and Michael Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy; Russell B. and Andree B. Stearns Trustee Professor of Political Economy, College of Arts and Sciences
Barry Bluestone is the founding director of the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy (CURP). He is the author of hundreds of articles and monographs and co-author of 11 books, including the recently published multidisciplinary textbook, The Urban Experience: Economics, Society, and Public Policy (Oxford University Press, July 2008), with Mary Huff Stevenson and Russell Williams.
Before coming to Northeastern in 1999, Bluestone taught political economy for more than 25 years at Boston College and the University of Massachusetts Boston. He received his BA, MA, and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan.
Moving Toward a More Efficient Use of Energy
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Alumni Center, 716 Columbus Avenue, 6th Floor
Professor Stanković will review the relevant features of existing electric energy systems and discuss new challenges stemming from global concerns like climate change and energy sustainability. The discussion will also focus on the two main layers in energy systems and outline the potential opportunities for electric energy systems to serve our society.
Speaker:
Aleksandar Stanković
Distinguished Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering
Distinguished Professor Aleksandar Stanković received his bachelor’s (1982) and master’s degrees (1986) in electrical engineering from the University of Belgrade, and his PhD in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1993. He has been a professor in Northeastern’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering since 1993. His research work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research, Electric Power Research Institute, and C.S. Draper Laboratories in Cambridge, MA.
Wed., February 4
The Federal Reserve and its Impact on the United States
Tues., March 3
Turning the Corner: U.S. Economic Policy and National Recovery
Wed., April 15
Moving Toward a More Efficient Use of Energy
For more information on Insights lectures, contact Reja Gamble at 617.373.2907.
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