The Union Square Branch of the Green Line Extension, or GLX, opened to the public Monday, with local leaders officiating ribbon-cutting ceremonies at the newly-opened Union Square station and the relocated Lechmere station.
The GLX is a collaboration between the MBTA and...
To help voters pick a new student body president and executive vice president in the first contested election in four years, the Student Government Association, or SGA, hosted a debate between the two slates March 10. Both the Jorio-Chávez ticket and the New Horizons slate were...
Merely two months into a brand new year, a war between a global superpower and its neighboring nation has created agitation and turmoil across the world.
Russian forces attacked Ukraine Feb. 24. President Vladimir Putin said in a speech earlier that morning that he felt...
Mandatory masks indoors will soon be a thing of the past on Northeastern’s Boston campus.
Starting March 5, masks will only be required in the University Health and Counseling Services building. The change was announced online Tuesday and in an email to students Wednesday...
Effective this Saturday, face coverings will be “optional in all settings” on the Boston campus except University Health and Counseling Services, according to a News@Northeastern article.
This change, announced online Tuesday night, marks another move toward Northeastern...
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and Commissioner of Public Health and Executive Director of the Boston Public Health Commission Bisola Ojikutu announced Tuesday the city will lift its indoor mask mandate, effective March 5.
The City’s Board of Health came to an unanimous decision...
The latest step in Northeastern’s plan to treat COVID-19 as an endemic came Friday morning. In an email to students, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs David Madigan and Chancellor and Senior Vice President for Learning Ken Henderson announced that mandatory...
Northeastern adjusted some of its COVID-19 policies in an email Friday. Among the newly announced changes is making weekly testing optional for asymptomatic individuals and the discontinuation of the COVID-19 testing dashboard. These changes will take effect Feb. 28.
The email,...
Dating apps are used by people of all backgrounds, but they’re commonly known to be a staple piece of the modern college culture. As first-time and veteran dating app users are coming together in the immersive world of dating, The News spoke with nine students about their experiences and thoughts on what it means to meet romantic partners through a phone screen when the COVID-19 pandemic shut down all social scenes for almost three years.
One of Black feminism’s most prolific and influential scholars, bell hooks, née Gloria Jean Watkins, died Dec. 15, 2021 at the age of 69. To celebrate her life and honor her legacy, Dr. Régine Jean-Charles, the Dean’s Professor of Culture and Social Justice and the director...
Kate Armanini, news correspondent
• February 2, 2022
In Domenic Esposito’s exhibit, a faceless, hooded figure looms in each piece. In one painting, a wall of hoods face forward. In another, a series of them approach the foreground until a bronze statue breaks through the canvas.
Esposito's January exhibit at Piano Craft...
Northeastern is slowly moving closer to treating COVID-19 as as a regular part of day-to-day life, and in turn, its policies and practices surrounding COVID-19 are changing.
“As we move into this endemic phase of the pandemic, our job is to continue to control Covid effectively,...
