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The John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse. Beau Benson was sentenced to five years in prison Feb 27, with five years of supervised release.

Former Northeastern admissions counselor sentenced to five years in prison for receiving child pornography

Emily Spatz, news staff February 27, 2025

Content warning: This story contains details of sexual assault and child pornography. The former Northeastern admissions counselor who pleaded guilty to receipt of child pornography last year was sentenced to five years in prison Feb. 27, according to the U.S. Attorney’s...

The entrance to the Khoury College building at West Village H. Kylie Bemis' email to several faculty and administration members called for protection of Northeastern's vulnerable students and faculty from identities under attack from the Trump administration.

Khoury professor demands Northeastern leadership protect community in open letter

Chloe Craft, news staff February 24, 2025

A Northeastern professor called on university leadership to more forcefully respond to the actions of President Donald Trump’s administration in an open letter to the university community Feb. 22, the first such letter at Northeastern since Trump took office last month and...

Documents courtesy Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections.

99 years of The Huntington News

Sonel Cutler, editor-in-chief February 24, 2025

Ninety-nine years ago today, The Northeastern News published its first edition.  On Feb. 24, 1926, two of Northeastern’s student publications, the School of Engineering’s The Northeastern Tech and the College of Business Administration’s The Bulletin merged and published...

Dylan Mitchell poses for a photo with his bike. He started cycling in the roundabout outside Ruggles in 2022, when he moved up to Boston for work.

Who’s the man biking around Ruggles? Uncovering the identity of the ‘Centennial Cyclist.’

Auden Oakes, news staff February 23, 2025

Dylan Mitchell is not a campus celebrity. Instead, he is a campus enigma. While his name may not immediately ring a bell, for Northeastern students and Ruggles commuters, his peculiar hobby might. For hours on end, the 24-year-old biker extraordinaire circles the Centennial...

A washing machine with the door removed in International Village. An email was sent out Feb. 21 asking students to stop removing the doors.

International Village residents ‘causing disruptions’ by removing washing machine doors, according to email

Caroline Baker Dimock, news staff February 23, 2025

Residents of International Village, or IV, received an email Feb. 21 instructing them to cease removing doors from washing machines following several reported incidents of vandalism in the residence hall.   The email, which went out at 5 p.m. and was signed by three resident...

20 years ago, Northeastern students embraced sex. Now, they barely hear about it.

20 years ago, Northeastern students embraced sex. Now, they barely hear about it.

Yashavi Upasani, news staff February 22, 2025

Let’s talk about sex, baby. More specifically, Northeastern’s history of bold sexual discourse and its current lack of this same liberation.  Twenty years ago, Northeastern had a dedicated “Sex Week” during its spring semester, and The Northeastern News, now The Huntington...

From pre-med to fashionista, this Northeastern student does it all

From pre-med to fashionista, this Northeastern student does it all

Sydney Woogerd, news correspondent February 21, 2025

It takes more time to organize a fashion show from the ground up than it does to study live rats in a diabetes lab for 10 months. Yeani Kwon knows this from personal experience.  In late 2023, at the age of 21, Kwon, a then fourth-year biology major, started to juggle...

Jacob Davis stands for a photo in Ell Hall. Davis was a behavioral neuroscience major at Northeastern when he was struck and killed by Gerald Veneziano in May 2024. Photo courtesy Deborah Davis.

New Jersey man sentenced to 6 years in prison for drunken crash that killed Northeastern student

Lily Webber, news correspondent February 19, 2025

A New Jersey Superior Court judge sentenced Gerald Veneziano, the 41-year-old man who struck and killed first-year Northeastern student Jacob Davis in a two-vehicle collision last May, to six years in prison Feb. 14. Along with the six years in prison, in accordance with the...

Sean Odom (left) and Phylicia Dias pose for a photo. They sat down with The News for a conversation about Trump's impact at Northeastern.

Q&A: What Northeastern’s response to the Trump administration means for two Black student leaders

Frances Klemm, news staff February 18, 2025

In 2023, the Supreme Court struck down race-based affirmative action in college admissions. The impact of the ruling reverberated at universities across the country, several of which experienced dramatic drops in Black student enrollment the following academic year. Northeastern...

A Decarbonization Community Forum attendee looks at a poster titled, “The Future of Sustainble Energy: Geothermal at NU” Nov. 24, 2024. Northeastern committed to working to eliminate carbon emissions across its campuses.

Northeastern’s decarbonization plan aims to set building emission targets by fall 2025

Grace Sawin, news correspondent February 17, 2025

Northeastern’s Planning and Real Estate Committee is developing a “Decarbonization and Resiliency Plan” to mitigate Northeastern’s carbon emissions and it is set to be completed this year. The plan will outline a clear decarbonization timeline to target building emissions...

How do toxic friend groups impact young people? These Northeastern students know.

How do toxic friend groups impact young people? These Northeastern students know.

Harrison Zuritsky, news correspondent February 16, 2025

Angelina Rifai and her two friends were trying on outfits before a night out. When the first-year biochemistry and bioengineering combined major showed the other women one option, one of them insisted she change because the clothing made her look “fat” and told Rifai, “If...

Members pose for a photo at the first Science Club for Girls meeting of the semester. Northeastern's chapter started in the spring 2023 semester. Photo courtesy Science Club for Girls.

Northeastern’s Science Club for Girls spreads the love of science throughout Boston and beyond

Caroline Baker Dimock, news staff February 16, 2025

At Science Club for Girls, members have one mission: get as many young girls involved in STEM as possible. Science Club for Girls, or SCFG, is a national nonprofit organization that works with elementary, middle and high school students and has chapters at colleges across...