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,...
As discussions of mental health become increasingly prevalent across college campuses, Northeastern students are finding the available mental health resources limited. To inspire change in the Northeastern community,
Coming out of their first loss in the past six games, Northeastern University (9-4-1, 5-3-1) faced a weekend series, Nov. 19-20, against Boston University (4-8-2, 5-3-2), who they had not seen on the ice since March 7, 2020. The last matchup between these two teams, 622 days...
In June, Northeastern announced the university’s action plan to address the rise in hate and violence against Asian Pacific Islander Desi Americans, or APIDA, communities and students. These steps highlighted two areas of focus: enhancing infrastructure for learning and creating...
Tensions were high on the ice during Saturday’s Hockey East matchup between No. 1 Northeastern women’s hockey (11-2-1, 10-2-1 CAA) and No. 2 University of Connecticut (11-2-2, 6-2-2 CAA). It was a dogfight at the historic Matthews Arena, but Northeastern came out victorious...
Members of the Northeastern University community gathered at the Veterans Memorial Nov. 11 to honor the nation’s servicemembers and celebrate the 70th anniversary of the university’s Reserve Officers’ Training Corps program, or ROTC.
At the beginning of the ceremony,...
