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.
Drumi is a local Boston based, online, luxury hybrid mattress company. Our mission is to help people sleep better, while protecting oceanic health. Drumi is the first online mattress company in the U.S. to support the SEAUQAL INITIATIVE, which collaborates with local NGOs, fishermen and small businesses to clean the oceans from marine litter. There are approximately 35 plastic bottles in every queen-size Drumi mattress cover and for every mattress you purchase, you get to adopt a coral in Curacao. Drumi is seeking to differentiate themselves from the “mattress-in-a-box” competitors. The tightly rolled mattresses can take days to reach their final shape, without a delivery team present, customers must handle the large and awkward boxes themselves, and once opened they often begin “off-gassing,” which creates a chemical odor. Drumi therefore offers a Green Glove Delivery program, where their team will set up the new mattress in your room of choice, and remove the old one free of charge - all while minimizing wasteful packaging and plastics at every stage from design to delivery.
