By Derek Hawkins For the throngs of spectators who crowd the streets every third Monday in April, the Boston Marathon is a one-day event. But for employees and volunteers at TRACS, Inc., a Massachusetts-based sports marketing and event management firm, preparation for the world-renowned...

New fine arts majors to be offered with MFA Partnering with the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA), Northeastern will offer a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art joint-degree program beginning fall 2007. The program will combine classroom learning...

By Maggie Cassidy American individuals need to form their own personal identities, Dr. Cornel West said in a lecture at Blackman Auditorium Thursday night. "There's no future of American democracy without raising those questions about what it is to be human," said West, a...

By Erin Semagin Damio Two years ago, Sunish Oturkar hardly knew anything about the genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan. Today, Oturkar has founded a student activist group opposing the genocide, and is working to get 10,000 signatures on a petition to help ease the situation....

A senior associate dean at the University of Southern California (USC) was appointed the new Northeastern senior vice president for advancement, the university announced yesterday. Diane Nishigaya MacGillivray will work to develop and execute fund-raising strategies and manage...

By Derek Hawkins A cyclist was killed at the intersection of Huntington Avenue and Forsyth Street Wednesday afternoon after a collision with a taxi caused his bike to skid under a truck, police said. Emergency services took Gordon Riker, a 22-year-old Massachusetts College...

This year's commencement speaker embodies the values and the way the university would like its students to think about their lives, said Kay Onan, special assistant to the president. The Board of Trustees announced yesterday that Nicholas Negroponte, co-founder of the Massachusetts...

By Samantha Egan The Council for University Programming (CUP) announced yesterday an additional 750 tickets will go on sale today for Saturday's Springfest concert. The seats are in the balcony section of Matthews Arena. CUP was able to increase the number of seats after getting...

Joseph Aoun has officially been inaugurated as the seventh president of Northeastern, but the remnants of the events still surround campus with "Northeastern Illuminated" flyers in the Curry Student Center, large banner on the Marino Center and Meserve Hall and students and...

By Kate Augusto As universities around the nation take steps to divest from companies that do business in Sudan, Northeastern's board of trustees announced this week they will look into endowment investment procedures in the next several months. Forty-one universities,...

By a margin as slim as a Hollywood starlet, Senator Joey Fiore received 47 percent of the student body votes last week, making him the first Northeastern University Direct Elections (NUDE) president. The 15 percent minimum number of student body votes was almost doubled,...

By Jewel Della Valle Sarah Eckhoff isn't any typical college athlete. When she's not playing field hockey, she spends her time working at a girl's orphanage in Thailand and helping AIDS patients in Uganda and Rwanda. The midfielder has been playing field hockey since she was...