This week, I went to the funeral of a little girl I never met. She was one of 135 confirmed victims of the July 4 floods that swept through her summer camp in Kerrville, Texas. While I celebrated Independence Day at home in Houston, 27 Camp Mystic campers and counselors drowned,...
College students across America are refreshing news feeds and checking Selective Service websites, not out of a so-called "incredible spirit" but out of fear that we're being dragged into another war in the Middle East.
As President Donald Trump oscillates between threatening...
I’ve been watching sports with my dad since I could sit up. Once I could actually kick a soccer ball, pass a basketball and understand the rules of a game, this hobby became an obsession.
As I watched, I found myself drawn to sports reporter Erin Andrews. Seeing this confident...
A wave of federal threats and funding freezes has put elite universities under pressure — not for misconduct or inefficiency, but for refusing to comply with government demands. The Trump administration’s recent attacks on research at elite universities are not only wrong...
The views expressed in this piece are the personal views of the author, a faculty member at Northeastern, and do not reflect those of his department or the institution.
On the first day of class each semester, instead of students asking, “What will be on our exams?” their...
This year, Pride celebration organizers across the country faced a new challenge: the loss of longtime corporate sponsors. Under mounting political pressure and federal attacks on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, brands that once flaunted rainbow logos every June...
Every Northeastern student is familiar with the stress of housing selection: With your housing lottery number in hand, you eagerly wait for your selection slot only to watch all the best options get booked up.
This stress is tenfold for students registered with a disability....
There I was — at 11:01 p.m. — with 59 minutes on the clock left to write a five-page essay due at midnight. Was I hunched over my keyboard, typing away at the pages, formatting my bibliography and perfecting each topic sentence? Of course not. Instead, my eyes were glued...
The views expressed in this piece are the personal views of the author, a professor at Northeastern, and do not reflect those of her department or the institution.
As students navigate a political landscape where complex moral questions arise daily — from debates about free...
As a behavioral neuroscience major, I have a bone to pick with Northeastern’s lab courses — and I know I’m not the only one.
Whether it's asking students to spend 10 hours a week writing 15 page lab reports or rushing them through experimental protocol without ample...
We are in the midst of an epochal change — and the havoc that is emblematic of this moment has arrived on our campus.
If we are to preserve university life as we know it, then we must refocus our attention away from the onslaught of national headlines and instead funnel...
Today, Americans are red, white and blind — with policy decisions being made not based on what's best for all, but on what serves the country’s elites.
In the Trump administration, corporate favoritism has been strategically hidden by performative appeals to patriotism...
