When Sophie Szeder visited her friends in the Pacific Palisades Jan. 4, the friendly community was full of life and lush greenery. By Jan. 8, most of the neighborhood had burned to the ground, leaving thousands displaced and uncertain of the future.  “Now, it’s all black...

Gerald Veneziano, the 41-year-old man who struck and killed first-year Northeastern student Jacob Davis in a two-vehicle collision in New Jersey last May, admitted Jan. 6 to driving under the influence of alcohol and over the speed limit at the time of the crash.  Veneziano,...

Seattle Police Department, or SPD, officer Kevin Dave, who struck and killed 23-year-old Northeastern graduate student Jaahnavi Kandula in his police cruiser in January 2023, has been fired, SPD confirmed in an email to The Huntington News Jan. 7.  In a department-wide email...

Northeastern looked vastly different 115 years ago. The university, then named The Evening Institute for Young Men, was still teaching classes out of the Huntington Avenue YMCA, and it would be another 20 years before it constructed its first building, Richards Hall, in 1938.  At...

Northeastern is expanding its network to southeastern Massachusetts with the opening of a small campus in Fall River dedicated to its accelerated nursing program for the start of the fall 2025 semester.  The campus will be located on the fifth floor of 277 Pleasant St. in...

When it was first established in 2011,  the New College of the Humanities — now Northeastern University London — operated out of a small townhouse in the heart of Bloomsbury, London.  The New College of the Humanities, or NCH, which merged with Northeastern in 2019,...

Filip Nadratowski doesn’t know what Swipe2Care, Northeastern’s meal swipe donation program, is. Jacob Berman recalls getting emails about the program but is unclear on how to donate swipes. Kate O’Mahoney has donated meals several times but often forgets to go through the...

This year, for the first time, a group of select high school seniors who graduated from Oakland Unified School District high schools and Pell Grant-eligible residents of Oakland, California were awarded the Northeastern Oakland Opportunity Scholarship, which covers the full costs...

Following weeks of tense discussion on academic freedom and freedom of expression, members of Northeastern’s faculty senate voted overwhelmingly Nov. 20 to reaffirm the body’s commitment to academic freedom, add a representative to the university’s policymaking board and...

Previously, students struggling with their calculus homework would have to rely on class notes, scour the internet for solutions or wait until the next office hours. However, with the advent of “Ada,” this drawn-out confusion may become a thing of the past at Northeastern.  Artificial...

The last time President-elect Donald Trump was in the Oval Office, most undergraduate students at Northeastern were in middle school.  Though some remember the rhetoric — mostly anti-immigrant, sexist and inflammatory LGBTQ+ sentiments — that marked his first stint in...

On Dec. 4, Chase Strangio, a Northeastern School of Law class of 2010 alum, became the first openly transgender lawyer to argue a case before the Supreme Court. Strangio, who grew up in Newton and came out as transgender while a student at Northeastern School of Law, is representing...