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.
Want some support … from a distance? Watch Boston Globe Love Letters advice columnist Meredith Goldstein for the third installment of Taking Care, which features conversations with mental health professionals during this time of social distancing. This week, Meredith chats with Dr. Ellen Braaten, co-director of The Clay Center for Young Healthy Minds at MGH, about how we can stay healthy with our families during this complicated time. Braaten answers questions about helping kids, parents, and loved ones, in general.
Jassby, headquartered in Waltham, MA, is a Fintech company founded in 2018 with the vision to bring financial services to kids and teens and their families to promote financial literacy.
Jassby offers families a service through which kids can receive money from their parents and grandparents, and can then save, donate, or shop, all on a safe, controlled, and fully digital state-of-the-art platform. Using the app promotes and teaches financial literacy, which is a crucial life-skill that kids aren’t learning about in school. Jassby can help reduce the common arguments around spending, chores, allowances, and money, along with connecting multiple generations of the family.
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.
Ellen Braaten, Ph.D. is co-director of The Clay Center for Young Healthy Minds at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), director of the Learning and Emotional Assessment Program (LEAP) at MGH, and an associate professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School. She is a psychologist, teacher, and researcher whose career has focused on improving understanding and treatment of children with learning and attention issues, particularly ADHD, learning disabilities, dyslexia, autism spectrum, and processing speed. Ellen is frequently called on by main stream and popular media to elucidate on the complexities of learning differences and challenges among young people. She holds the Kessler Family Endowed MGH Chair in Pediatric Neuropsychological Assessment.
As a mother of two young adult children, as well as a psychologist, Dr. Braaten is keenly interested in parenting issues, particularly those relating to normal development, education, and parenting children with behavior and learning differences. She has written a number of books for parents including Straight Talk about Psychological Testing for Kids, How to Find Mental Health Care for Your Child, and most recently Bright Kids Who Can’t Keep Up, a book for parents that addresses slow processing speed in children.
Dr. Braaten is active in clinical work with children and in the training of psychologists and psychiatrists to diagnose and treat ADHD and learning disabilities. She is a frequent speaker on topics relating to education, child development, learning disabilities, autism, processing speed, and intelligence. She has a special interest, in both her writing and research, in helping students with learning and emotional challenges succeed in the fast-paced world in which we live.
Want some support … from a distance? Watch Boston Globe Love Letters advice columnist Meredith Goldstein for the third installment of Taking Care, which features conversations with mental health professionals during this time of social distancing. This week, Meredith chats with Dr. Ellen Braaten, co-director of The Clay Center for Young Healthy Minds at MGH, about how we can stay healthy with our families during this complicated time. Braaten answers questions about helping kids, parents, and loved ones, in general.
