Northeastern junior Justin Dowd is ready to take the university’s global learning theme even further -- to outer space. Dowd, a physics major, won the Metro newspaper chain’s Race for Space competition for his chalk-drawn animation “Einstein’s discovery about time,” and an excursion aboard the private spacecraft Lynx, which will travel 120 kilometers above the surface of the Earth. As the initial hype dwindles, Dowd said reality is starting to set in and he is left with the question of how, exactly, a college student prepares for outer space.
For four years, Nick Payne never lost hope that the people responsible for his daughter’s death would be brought to justice. Now that day may be approaching. After a lengthy investigation, prosecutors have said two men will face charges related to the 2008 murder of Northeastern student Rebecca Payne, a crime that students said shocked the university community at the time
Northeastern’s Class of 2012 gathered for the final time as students Friday at a commencement ceremony in TD Garden led by a rousing speech from former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell. The undergraduate Class of 2012 consisted of 3,200 students, according to a statement from the university.
Nearly four years after Rebecca Payne was fatally shot in her Mission Hill apartment in 2008, Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley announced an indictment Sunday charging a man with first-degree murder in her death. Cornell Smith, 30, who is now serving a 12-year prison sentence for a drug charge out of state, is accused of killing Payne in a home on Parker Hill Avenue in May 2008, Conley’s office said in a statement.
Justin Dowd is a finalist in the Metro newspaper’s Race for Space, and the grand prize is a seat on a shuttle that will soar 120 kilometers, or roughly 394,000 feet, off the surface of the Earth. Most commercial jet planes fly between 30,000 and 40,000 feet.
Oren spoke for about an hour, touching on the history of the relationship between Israel and the US, Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, the Iranian nuclear program and the Arab Spring. He also stressed the importance of the alliance for both Israel and America.
The group of 25 Northeastern students was recognized by the national ZBT headquarters as the Zeta Beta Tau Boston-City chapter on March 22. Since then, Northeastern’s Hillel center yielded space for the fraternity’s executive board meetings, which are held on Mondays. The entire group meets in Rubin’s apartment every Thursday for educational meetings.
Northeastern School of Law student Doug Lloyd won $12,400 on Jeopardy, the popular trivia game show. The episode aired April 9, and Lloyd went on to compete in the next show, winning $2,000 for finishing in second place. He completed his undergraduate education at Harvard and will graduate from law school next month.
After almost a month of public activism, during which students and faculty held a speak-out rally as a venue for workers to voice their issues with Chartwells management, union officials announced Northeastern’s Chartwells workers voted overwhelmingly last Thursday April 12 to join the UNITE HERE Local 26 union.
While scrolling through my Twitter feed the other day I discovered, via Rolling Stone, that rapper Tupac Shakur performed at the Coachella music festival. This struck me as weird, on account of the fact that Shakur has been dead for almost 16 years.
However, thanks to the...
Officer Nicole Grant, a BPD spokeswoman, said a witness reported about nine gunshots in the area. The shooter fled the scene on foot towards Ruggles Street, the witness said. No one was hurt in the shooting, but officers noticed bullet holes in a car parked at the scene.
Oren spoke for about an hour, touching on the history of the relationship between Israel and the US, Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, the Iranian nuclear program and the Arab Spring. He also stressed the importance of the alliance for both Israel and America. 
