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.
Watch Boston Globe Love Letters advice columnist Meredith Goldstein for the fifth installment of Taking Care. This week, Meredith chats with Bob Linscott, assistant director at the LGBT Aging Project at The Fenway Institute in Boston. Linscott has also taught meditation and mindfulness for over 20 years. He talks about how older adults are experiencing quarantine, and how younger people can support them. He also discusses what it means to be mindful right now, and how the body and mind connect about stress.
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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.
Bob Linscott is one of the country’s leading advocates on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) Aging. He is the Assistant Director at The LGBT Aging Project at The Fenway Institute in Boston. Linscott’s work with LGBT older adults is profiled in the award-winning film Gen Silent, which has been seen by audiences around the world. Linscott’s work focuses on making the existing elder-care network more welcoming and inclusive for the needs of LGBT older adults. His work with mainstream providers has led to the development of LGBT training curricula for senior centers and home care agencies in addition to the establishment of more than 23 LGBT-friendly community meal sites across Massachusetts. Linscott is a member of the Massachusetts Commission on LGBT Aging, which is the country’s first state wide commission on LGBT aging issues and Co-chair of the LAIN Council, The American Society on Aging’s LGBT Aging Issues Network. He writes a regular column on LGBT aging in Boston Spirit Magazine and has done trainings and speaking engagements all across the subject. In 2015 Linscott was invited to The White House by the Obama Administration for the first White House Summit on LGBT Elder Housing. He is also a board member for LGBTQ Senior Housing Inc. a nonprofit dedicated to bringing LGBT friendly, affordable housing to Massachusetts.
In addition to his work in the field of LGBT Aging, Bob Linscott has been teaching meditation and mindfulness for over 20 years. Since completing his training in Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) at The Center for Mindfulness at UMass Medical School, Linscott has been teaching for a variety of populations including older adults in Assisted Living settings, Family Caregivers, LGBTQ adults and students, and clients dealing with anxiety and depression. His current teaching positions include Brown University’s Mindfulness Center, UMass Memorial Health Care and Mass General Hospital.
Linscott has dedicated most of his career to issues of diversity and inclusion working with underserved and at-risk populations. He spent several years living with the Dine’ (Navajo) on the reservation in Arizona and travels regularly to Nepal to assist with The Nepal Orphans Home, the orphanage his brother founded in 2005. Linscott was first drawn to MBSR as an intervention for LGBT elders who endured a life time of stigma and discrimination which takes its toll on the body. He also uses MBSR with LGBTQ young adults as a tool to enhance resiliency in response to social anxiety and depression.
