Alexa Rand is no stranger to advocating for herself. Born with a heart condition that limits her physical mobility and weakens her immune system, the fifth-year music major has spent her entire life voicing her accessibility needs.  But that soon changed when she applied...

Every week, The Huntington News staff gather in Holmes Hall to pitch stories, attend workshops and meet with editors. On Feb. 24, 1926, Northeastern students congregated in a similar manner in an office at 306 Huntington Ave. to prepare the first print edition of The Northeastern...

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,...

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...