When Danielle Mazo, a fourth-year business administration and criminal justice double major, joined Northeastern’s figure skating team in 2022, she said the end of Matthews Arena already felt near. Now, as Mazo steps into the role of president for the 70-plus-person team, the...
Everywhere Lindsay Berman goes, she hears another story about Matthews Arena. After all, its storied rafters have hosted everything from the Boston Bruins to Beanpot finals, concerts by legendary musicians and addresses by prominent politicians.
After 115 years, Northeastern...
Scam emails continue to infiltrate Northeastern Outlook inboxes several months after The Huntington News initially reported on the issue.
In the past several months, multiple students received a scam email that appeared to be from a representative of Habitat for Humanity,...
Aiden Stein, deputy campus editor
• February 17, 2025
When the world is burning, people look to influential institutions to offer words of advice and reassurance. As Northeastern has grown from a commuter trade school to an international education network over the past 127 years, the seven presidents who have guided the university...
Over the past several decades, Northeastern has expanded its empire by buying up smaller universities around the country and accepting students into alternate admissions programs such as Global Scholars and N.U.in. But the elite institution — where a mere 5.2% of applicants...
Northeastern University’s Office of External Affairs has a succinctly stated goal on its website: to position the university as “the world leader in experiential learning and an engine for global impact.”
While the department, whose leader has touted it as "the best...
In 1909, eight Northeastern engineering students sent out co-op applications to four local employers, hoping to land a job at a wage of 10 cents an hour.
One hundred and fifteen years later, this program is Northeastern’s signature draw, with 95% of undergraduate students...
From its founding in 1898 until the late 1990s, Northeastern functioned as a commuter school, with the majority of the student population traveling to and from campus every day. Cluttered with parking lots and lacking a campus feel, Northeastern's leaders eventually realized...
Every Northeastern student who has walked through Krentzman Quad has passed Ell Hall. Yet, few know the story of the man it honors: Carl Stephen Ell, Northeastern's second president, who transformed Northeastern from a small, YMCA-affiliated institution into a global university...
In letters penned over a century ago, Northeastern’s first president warned colleagues of the threat a future leader with too much power could pose to the university.
During his tenure as president from 1898 to 1940, Frank Palmer Speare — also Speare Hall’s namesake...
In 2023, the United States Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in college admissions, fueling feelings of frustration and isolation in Black students at Northeastern. Though Northeastern is still reckoning with a 35% drop in Black student enrollment seen in the Class...
In April 2023, Clarissa Caslli, a second-year business administration major, lost $1,000 because of a scam email she received through her Northeastern Outlook account.
Awaiting the start of her first semester at Northeastern, Caslli was still a senior in high school when...
