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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...

Members of DREAM and their mentees sit on the steps of Churchill Hall to take a photo while in costume. DREAM members participated in a range of activities, from rock climbing to visiting a fire station. Photo courtesy DREAM.

Northeastern students form meaningful relationships with mentees in Roxbury community through DREAM

Paloma Welch, news staff February 15, 2025

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...

Ted Cruz walks onto the stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington Feb 26 2015. Of the over 3,400 research grants identified, 19 were from Northeastern. Photo courtesy Gage Skidmore, Wikimedia Commons.

Nearly $14 million of Northeastern research grants deemed ‘neo-Marxist propaganda’ in investigation led by Ted Cruz

Aiden Stein, deputy campus editor February 15, 2025

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...

Students and faculty work in labs in the Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex. A recent audit by NSF questioned $1,049,082 in Northeastern spending.

Northeastern refunds over $600,000 to National Science Foundation following financial audit

Caroline Baker Dimock, news staff February 14, 2025

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...

Photos by Elizabeth Scholl and Nia Calais

Trump’s policies turned the academic world upside down. Northeastern researchers wonder what’s next.

Alexa Coultoff, news staff February 14, 2025

Following Northeastern’s removal of nearly all diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, messaging from its websites and social media platforms Jan. 29, postdoctoral teaching associate Griffin Zimmerman sent a Canvas message to students in all four of his writing courses. Zimmerman...

The entrance to Mills College. Northeastern recently proposed the creation of a private police force for the campus.

Push for Northeastern Oakland private police force sparks legal questions, student concerns

Gitana Savage and Auden Oakes February 13, 2025

Northeastern’s flagship Boston campus has had its own private campus police for more than half a century, which has grown in size and jurisdiction along with the rapidly expanding university. Now, as the university establishes satellite campuses across the globe, efforts to...

Joseph E. Aoun speaks at a tribute event for Martin Luther King Jr. Jan. 16. In an email to all active students Feb. 12, Aoun addressed how the university has complied with Donald Trump’s administration’s demands.

Weeks into Trump administration, Aoun reaffirms commitment to university values

Chloe Craft, news staff February 12, 2025

Northeastern President Joseph E. Aoun sent an email to the Northeastern community Feb. 12 around 10 a.m. expressing a continued commitment to the university’s “core values” amid an outcry for communication from university leadership. The statement came weeks after President...

Northeastern's DEI office at 271 Huntington Ave. Following the shut down of Northeastern's DEI websites, students expressed concerns over the future of underrepresented communities on campus.

Northeastern students adapt to new political climate following DEI scrubbing

Frances Klemm, news staff February 11, 2025

Whether from a friend’s text, on social media or through word of mouth, Northeastern students recently became aware of the university’s first outward-facing changes caused by President Donald Trump’s recent election: the near-elimination of Northeastern’s diversity, equity...