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.
Stuck at home with your spouse? Caring for kids at home together? It’s not always easy, but partnership in a pandemic can be an overwhelming challenge. Watch Boston Globe Love Letters advice columnist Meredith Goldstein interview Boston University’s Steven J. Sandage, a licensed psychologist in practice at the Danielsen Institute, where he specializes in couples and family therapy. He helps answer questions about all kinds of partners who are doing their best, but might need a little help from a distance.
Meredith Goldstein is an advice columnist and features reporter for The Boston Globe. Her advice column, Love Letters, is a daily dispatch of wisdom for the lovelorn that has been running online and in the paper for 11 years. Her Love Letters podcast will launch its fourth season later this year. Meredith's books include “Can’t Help Myself: Lessons and Confessions From a Modern Advice Columnist”; “Chemistry Lessons," a young adult novel about a teen who tries to use science to manipulate her love life; and “The Singles,” a novel about dateless guests at a wedding. Meredith lives in Boston with a full-size cotton candy machine.
Steven J. Sandage, Ph.D., LP, is Albert and Jessie Danielsen Professor of Psychology of Religion and Theology at Boston University where he has faculty appointments in the School of Theology and the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences and teaches couple and family therapy. He is also Research Director and Senior Staff Psychologist at the Albert & Jessie Danielsen Institute in Boston, where he practices as a Licensed Psychologist specializing in couple and family therapy. He is the co-author/co-editor of seven books, and his research is currently funded by the John Templeton Foundation.
