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...

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...

In December 2024, an eclectic group of more than 30 powerful CEOs, billionaires and business leaders from across the globe joined Northeastern President Joseph E. Aoun at Northeastern’s Boston campus to outline the university’s top priorities, shaping its framework and future.  The...

Julian Herzing-Burkard, a third-year international business major, officially confirmed his candidacy for student body president Feb. 17 alongside his executive vice president, or EVP, candidate Dylan Lee, a second-year data science and economics combined major. The campaign...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Dan-Chi Nguyen, a fourth-year nursing major, is no stranger to working with children. When she was five, her mother opened a home-based preschool, and she often helped around the classroom.  “Work and school can add up, and then you get to reconnect with the mentors and...

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, released a database of over 3,400 National Science Foundation, or NSF, grants awarded towards what he deemed “questionable” research that promotes diversity, equity and inclusion or “advanced neo-Marxist class warfare propaganda” in a Feb. 11 press...

A federal audit published by the National Science Foundation’s Office of the Inspector General Feb. 6 revealed significant financial mismanagement within several of Northeastern’s federally funded research projects. As a result, the university agreed to reimburse the National...