In 2022, Northeastern was ranked among the top 50 national universities, according to U.S. News’ annual report. In their most recent 2024 rankings, released Sept. 18, the university was ranked 53rd, down significantly from its ranking of 44th the year before.
Many colleges...
On Monday, the Northeastern community, along with top state officials, celebrated the grand opening of the new EXP building. The venue was packed, leaving some audience members standing as they listened to speakers praise the building’s launch.
“Northeastern is not just...
Following a week of violence in Israel and Gaza, dozens of students gathered Friday evening on Krentzman Quad to hold a silent demonstration and pray in solidarity with Palestine. The demonstration, organized by Huskies for a Free Palestine, a group formed of “Northeastern...
Friday night, two long-standing rivals — Northeastern (4-1-0, 1-0-0 Hockey East) and Boston University (0-1-0, 0-1-0 Hockey East) — ushered in their new eras in the first Hockey East showdown of the season. In recent years, the Huskies have been the dominant team, but debuting...
Emily Spatz, deputy campus editor
• October 5, 2023
Daniel Auderer, a Seattle Police Department officer who was seen on body camera footage last month laughing about the death of a Northeastern graduate student, has been taken off the streets.
The Seattle Police Department, or SPD, confirmed to The News in an email Oct. 5 that...
Can you trust your friends? Do you really know your allies? Do you know how to survive?
These are the questions that contestants have to answer for themselves in the game of “Survivor.” On a chilly moonlit night in late September, players and production staff of Survivor:...
On Sept. 6, Fenway’s MGM Music Hall opened its doors to Northeastern’s 125th class for convocation. Thousands of first-year students turned the space into a rainbow with brightly colored shirts and light-up bracelets, listening as President Joseph E. Aoun gave words of wisdom...
In the middle of Centennial Common, about three dozen students gathered Sept. 21 with posters and a megaphone, ready to rally for the No Hungry Huskies campaign. As the common grew busy in the late afternoon, students began chanting into the megaphone: “What do we want? Three...
“So Big, So Small,” a cabaret event where first-year, fourth-year and fifth-year members of NU Stage came together to support one another and perform short, creative acts, was a resounding success in AfterHours Sept. 22.
As NUStage members started their acts, many audience...
Over 30 environmental activists gathered at the Massachusetts State House Sept. 18 for an Extinction Rebellion protest pressuring Governor Maura Healey to publicly commit to building no new fossil fuel infrastructure, with eight demonstrators being arrested, according to Extinction...
More accessible green spaces, more physical spaces for marginalized groups and more campus recreational spaces were among many of the suggestions for changes to Northeastern’s Boston campus students shared Wednesday at a campus forum hosted by Northeastern’s Department of...
Kara Orsini, news correspondent
• September 28, 2023
Book It Around Boston garnered readers and runners alike to participate in a journey through multiple Boston Public Library, or BPL, locations across the city. On Saturday, the BPL partnered with Heartbreak Hill Running Company, a local business committed to building community...
