Event of The Week: Monday, Jan. 26 Breakout star of the hit Netflix original series “Orange is the New Black” Laverne Cox is coming to campus. The actress, who portrays Sophia Burset on the show, has been praised for her poignant and multi-dimensional portrayal of an incarcerated transgender woman. Also a television producer and LGBT advocate, Cox is also the first openly transgender person to ever be nominated for an emmy. The nominaion was for outstanding guest actress in a comedy series. In June of last year, she became the first openly transgender person to appear on the cover of Time magazine for an interview on her career and involvement in the transgender movement. This Monday, she will be presenting her “Ain’t I a Woman” speech at Northeastern. Tickets are available on myNEU. Blackman Auditorium; 7 - 8 p.m.; free.

Northeastern students took to the dance floor last Saturday in support of Boston Children’s Hospital at the school’s first ever dance marathon.

My favorite form of punctuation is the period. Simple and unpretentious, it puts on no airs and wears no frills. Physically, it offers nothing. It possesses neither the elegant curve of the question mark, the passionate spunk of the exclamation point nor the elusive playfulness of the semi-colon.

Boston-based security company PXT Payments’ mobile app looped in is looking to make the move to Northeastern. Specifically designed for college students, the app allows users to digitally pay at local establishments, earn reward points and transfer money between friends – all on your smartphone.

Rarely does the harmony between siblings extend as productively and creatively as it has for Farzaneh and Bahareh Safarani.

Vicky Chow, a Canadian pianist who is making waves in the contemporary classical style, took the stage at the Fenway Center last Saturday to an audience of 100.

Event of the Week Thursday, Jan. 15 Feeling nostalgic? Reminisce on the glory days with a night of music from the early 2000s, which means Britney Spears, T-Pain, NSYNC, Lil Jon and Beyoncé. Thursday Night Music Club at 6B Lounge is hosting a Now That's What I Call Music 00's Night just so you can dance to Soulja Boy again, you know you want to. 21+; 6B Beacon St.; 9p.m.; free.

Earlier this week at the Golden Globes, co-host Tina Fey hit the nail on the head when she referred to the controversy surrounding the film “The Interview” as "the biggest story in Hollywood this year."

Data visualization is just what it sounds like: presenting content in a visually appealing way to more powerfully and effectively communicate.

Funny and heartbreaking – two words that could be used in a film review for a romantic comedy, or rather in my case, working in pediatrics.

Visitors to Ryder Hall over the past few weeks were treated to a new view as the latest installation of Northeastern’s public art initiative brightened the wall. Art professor Sophia Ainslie created the mural “In Person” with the help of four students and her intern as a way of engaging with a wider audience.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year: finals week. The week we have all been waiting for. I don’t know about you, but I’ve been counting down the seconds until I could spend every waking minute under the eye-frying fluorescent lights of Snell Library.