• At commencement in May 2016, President Joseph E. Aoun joined Deborah Shomberg Gries, PAH'77, and the late Michael Gries, DMSB'77, as...

    Michael Gries, DMSB’77, PNT’16, leaves a rich legacy at Northeastern, with an approach to philanthropy that he described as “finding the road less traveled.”


  • Northeastern corporator Chuck Hewitt (left), Larry O'Toole, E'76 (center), and Guy Pronesti, DMSB'00, whose combined philanthro...

    In rowing, the oarsman in the seat closest to the stern is known as the stroke. More than a top-notch athlete, the stroke is a human metronome, the one who sets the team’s cadence both in and out of the water.