“I support it. I know in relation to health, it’s not as bad as alcohol or tobacco, which are both legal substances. [...] If they put some smart minds to it, I think they could figure out a way to make it work.”
- Charles Paglione, freshman, bioengineering major
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For the 14th-straight year, a cohort of Northeastern University (NU) students dedicated their spring break to charity, scattering far and wide to participate in Alternative Spring Break (ASB) service programs.
A photo-sharing app created by three Northeastern University (NU) business students competed on Monday in the final round of Student Startup Madness (SSM), a nationwide tournament by SXSW in Austin, Texas for digital media startups founded by collegiate entrepreneurs.
The two Northeastern University students killed in a car crash in Dubai were in the same accident that killed a Canadian boxer and another man on Sunday morning, according to several media outlets.
Members of on-campus activist coalition Students Against Institutional Discrimination (SAID) condemned Northeastern University’s (NU) decision to arm its officers with semiautomatic weapons at a Boston City Council meeting Monday through verbal testimony and a “die-in” demonstration immediately afterward.
Northeastern University’s (NU) Social Impact Lab (SIL) student leaders hosted “Northeastern Changemaker Day” on Monday. The event celebrated NU being named a Social Changemaker campus by Ashoka U, a global network of student entrepreneurs, with events in the Curry Student Center and afterHOURS.
Northeastern Black Student Association (NBSA) club members marched underneath rain and into a general body meeting at Krentzman Quadrangle last Wednesday, Feb. 24, as part of “Huskies in Hoods Week.”
Northeastern University senior Brian Fountaine plays many parts: An army veteran, a designer and, most recently, an innovator. Fountaine, a double-amputee after losing his legs while serving in Iraq, is creating prototypes of prosthetics with a 3-D printer.
Nanoparticle technology, a 3-D printer and a bit of brainpower are the three key tools in a Northeastern University (NU) professor’s pioneering research to create medicine that dissolves directly into the bloodstream – no needles required.
As dozens of students wearing suspenders, newsboy caps and flapper dresses poured into the ballroom, it seemed like the Curry Student Center was hosting one of Gatsby’s legendary parties last Friday. With smokey eyes and tight trousers, members of the Northeastern University Ballroom Dance Club had invited students to try their hand at swing dancing in a free introductory lesson.
