Observer Department: Features
Boston Red Sox host Journalism Night
As an aspiring journalist, more specifically a sports journalist, meeting and networking with professionals in the field is essential to furthering my career. The Boston Red Sox organization emailed multiple colleges about some of their “theme” nights throughout the season that coincided with college majors. The first theme night of…
Rollins goes extra mile in philosophy class
By: Kali Routier Correspondent Philosophy is an area of study that aims to answer the world’s most unanswerable questions with logic. For example: Does God exist? What happens after death? And what, exactly, is the purpose of life? Dustin Rollins, a philosophy professor at NECC, helps students seek the answers…
NECC COG supports Walk for Hunger
On Wednesday April 20, Community Outreach Group had a bake sale for the Walk for Hunger organization. Nick Stuart, the president of COG has been an active member for four semesters. “The club has gained a lot of new members as of late and that’s really exciting,” he said. For…
English professor takes sabbatical
NECC English professor Tom Greene has taken the spring semester of 2016 off for sabbatical. During this time, he is working on producing a manuscript for a novel and seeking to publish it. A sabbatical may be granted to a professor every seven years, where he or she can ask…
Journalism/Communication students celebrate free speech with free speeches
By: Cleo Brigham Staff Writer Last Wednesday, Northern Essex students and public speakers alike gathered in Spurk’s Lecture Hall A to celebrate their freedom of speech as well as one of the final events held before the Spurk building is closed for renovations. This semester marks the one year anniversary…
Math professor holds to traditional family values
By Sarah Colpitts Correspondent [learn_more caption="Sujatha Thiruvengadathan"] Content goes here[/learn_more] , known to students and faculty as “Sue” and by her family members as “Suji,” teaches math courses here at NECC. Thiruvengadathan was born in Tamilnadu, India. Thiruvengadathan studied electrical engineering in undergrad school while living in India before moving…
Single mom follows her dreams to NECC Deaf Studies program
Taryn Decker is a Deaf Studies major in her second semester at NECC. She is 30 years old and a single mom, taking five classes and working part time. She somehow manages to balance all of these things and keep an optimistic attitude while she does so. Decker realized what…
Professor Padova is in the news
When NECC’s Director of Public Relations, Ernie Greenslade, was approached by international news agency, Reuters, about speaking with a professor who’s knowledgeable about the New Hampshire primary, she put them in contact with Richard Padova. Padova has been an adjunct professor in NECC’s global studies department since January of 2005.…
Let Armando Belliard-Harmon entertain you
Armando Belliard-Harmon, 3rd semester theatre major at NECC, got involved with theatre at a very young age, bonding with his grandmother watching golden age movie adaptations of musicals. “Singing in the Rain,” “White Christmas,” and works by Ben Crosby is what sparked the fire for him to become a multi-dimensional…
HC Media internship opportunities continue
HC Media continues to work with NECC internship program Cassie Ellson is a twenty-year-old Art major at NECC. She took the Video Field Production class at HC Media, after which she remembered they had talked about the internship positions that would be opening in the next semester. Lance Hidy, graphic…
