Articles by: Angela Tournas
https://www.eagletribune.com/local/x1837423597/NECC-faculty-staff-receive-national-awards
What does Northern Essex Community College have in common with a
highly-competitive undergraduate research program at Tufts University?
A couple of things, as a matter of fact.
First, NECC graduate Phil Starks of …
“The Beaux Stratagem,” a 300 year-old comedy first adapted in 1939, finished in 2004, and premiered in 2006, will be presented by the Northern Essex Community College Top Notch Players …
Save the date to see Keith Lockhart and Friends on Saturday, September 28, at 7:30 p.m. at the Collins Center for the Performing Arts at Andover High School in Andover. …
Seventeen students from Northern Essex Community College’s Lawrence Campus visited New Balance’s facility in Lawrence on Wednesday, Feb. 27, as part of a Career Bridge Outreach Program, designed to introduce …
https://www.eagletribune.com/haverhill/x1874099335/Northern-Essex-to-host-business-conference-on-innovation
Northern Essex helped Jason DeCosta grow from an unemployed pipe fitter to a soon-to-be computer information sciences graduate.
Jason, of Haverhill, grew up in Merrimac and attended Whittier Regional Vocational Technical …
Liz Nofzinger, a Boston-based video and installation artist interprets the history of Northern Essex Community College’s Haverhill campus in an exhibit titled “Resource” which runs Saturday, March 2, through Saturday, …
Whoever said nothing exciting ever happens at NECC wasn’t around this February, when there was a celebrity sighting on the Haverhill Campus, a former NECC student rose to the finals …
Two Northern Essex Community College staff members—Dina Brown, director, student engagement center & new student orientation, and Cheryl Goodwin, senior executive assistant to the president— recently had the experience of …
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