The Women’s Community of Code is a program run by Northeastern Professors Laney Strange and Ben Hescott that offers free coding workshops for girls and women in the community.
Highly acclaimed civil rights lawyer, advocate and legal scholar Michelle Alexander came to Northeastern on Feb. 20 to discuss the content of her book, “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.”
Northeastern University, along with eight other universities, is an awardee of NASA’s annual Breakthrough, Innovative and Game-Changing (BIG) Idea Challenge.
In their meeting Wednesday, Northeastern’s faculty senate passed a resolution in which they recommended changing the Teacher Rating and Course Evaluation, or TRACE. The proposed revisions include making the survey itself shorter and adding questions regarding diversity and inclusion.
Kelly Garrity, news correspondent
• February 19, 2020
For weeks, the spread of the new Coronavirus, or 2019-nCoV, has instilled fear globally. Last month, the World Health Organization declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern, encouraging all countries to be prepared for containment. As more cases are diagnosed, scientists around the world have been searching for answers as to how this disease spreads.
Anti-war and peace organizations protested Northeastern's relationship with Raytheon. The protest was hosted by Massachusetts Peace Action and Northeastern’s Students for Justice of Palestine, or NUSJP, along with several other organizations.
Annie Probert, news correspondent
• February 12, 2020
The start of the spring semester at Northeastern has brought many new faces - most notably, the over 1,000 first-year students arriving on campus fresh off their first semester abroad with the N.U.in program. Along with the excitement of being on campus for the first time comes the difficulty of adjusting to a freshman year that is almost half over.
Rabin is the creator of a petition that aims to remove Amar Ramasar, a principal dancer of the New York City Ballet who is accused of sexual harassment, from playing the lead role of Bernardo in the revival of West Side Story on Broadway.
For students in performing arts groups, it has become more difficult to host shows on campus because of Student Activity Fee budget cuts and a change in the cost to book Blackman Auditorium.
Lucy Gavin, deputy campus editor
• February 11, 2020
At their meeting Feb. 5, Northeastern’s faculty senate discussed Northeastern’s new Portland, Maine campus, enrollment management and voted to add a Bachelor of Science in Mechatronics.
Mona Minkara, a chemistry professor, currently provides the Northeastern community and the scientific community with living proof that vision does not necessarily require sight.
