Northeastern’s total number of undergraduate applications surged once again for the 2025-26 academic year, totalling a record 105,092 applications, according to a Jan. 12 Northeastern Global News, or NGN, article.  The number of applications is up from 98,373 for the 2024-25...

When Sherri Miller studied on Northeastern’s Boston campus in the 1970s, there were around 15,000 undergraduate students and around 5,000 graduate students, according to documents preserved in Northeastern Library’s Archives and Special Collections.   Miller said she...

Matvei Isakov steps down from the top level of the sauna with his water and bottle of tea tree essential oils. He looks around at the sweat-covered faces of the others in the room and asks, “Mind if I put some water?”  “Go for it,” said one of the other two people...

From carrying sandbags to climbing ropes to sharing stories about their week, Elite Heat members do it all.  The student-run obstacle course racing club meets weekly to work out together and share their love for group exercise. In the winter, the club meets Thursday nights...

Khoury College of Computer Sciences faculty voted Jan. 15 to change its core curriculum that has been in place for nearly 20 years. The college will begin to phase out three classes fall 2025. The classes being phased out are three introductory courses for computer science...

Northeastern’s Resident Student Association, or RSA, unanimously voted to table legislation that would have added a question to the housing application form about allergies Jan. 15 after spirited deliberation.  Traditionally, Disability Access Services, or DAS, handles...

After a fall semester of record-high recruitment at sororities, Northeastern’s newest sorority, Delta Gamma, is set to begin its recruitment Jan. 22. Northeastern Panhellenic announced Nov. 18 a Delta Gamma chapter would be coming to campus in the spring. The new chapter...

Northeastern hosted its annual celebration honoring the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. Jan. 16. The event, entitled “A Tribute to the Dream: ‘The Beloved Community,’” allowed speakers and attendees to take time to honor King and the impacts of his legacy —...

Sam Iannone, a second-year business administration major, holds many titles: president of Beta Theta Pi, Northeastern social media ambassador, Husky Ambassador and, most recently, Mayor of Huntington Avenue. “I love Northeastern so much, so it feels awesome to be a representative...

A federal judge sentenced Jason Duhaime, the 47-year-old former technology manager and director of the Immersive Media Lab at Northeastern University who staged a bomb hoax in 2022, to one year and one day in federal prison Jan. 13. The sentencing marks over two years since...

Tucked away inside Kerr Hall along The Fenway sits a space reserved for the smallest members of the university community: Northeastern’s daycare. The facility is decked out with children’s artwork plastered against the walls, colorful carpets trailing along the floors, personalized...

Northeastern looked vastly different 115 years ago. The university, then named The Evening Institute for Young Men, was still teaching classes out of the Huntington Avenue YMCA, and it would be another 20 years before it constructed its first building, Richards Hall, in 1938.  At...