August 2020 In Photos by Matthew Modoono August 31, 2020 by Ruby Wallau Share Facebook LinkedIn Twitter Morgan Lulley, who studies business administration, sticks with her face mask while studying outside Richards Hall. Photo by Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University We took you to the lab that will process the Northeastern’s coronavirus tests, the shop that’s making all those signs on campus to promote safety, and showed you how people working and studying on campus are pitching in to protect the pack. This and much more, all through the lenses of News@Northeastern’s award-winning photographers. Helena Shaw, who studies business, does her part to protect the pack while reading a book on Centennial Common. Photo by Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University A brand-new coronavirus testing facility on Northeastern’s Innovation Campus in Burlington, Massachusetts, will help the university’s efforts to keep its community and surrounding neighborhoods safe with extensive testing of students, faculty, and staff. Photos by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University Olivia Mitchell, Mollie Harreys, and Maxwell Benman, who all work for the Sign Shop in the facilities department at Northeastern, install new signs with COVID-19 guidelines for the testing facility at Cabot Cage. Photos by Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University A face mask adorns the statue of Cy Young overlooking the Churchill Hall courtyard where, in 1903, the future Hall-of-Fame pitcher led the Boston Americans to victory in the first World Series. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University Graduate students Suzanne Stasiak and Ryan Jamieson are part of a team of researchers studying how smooth muscle cells in the human airway behave to trigger asthma. Photos by Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University Andres Garcia is a fifth-year student who’s enrolled in a first-of-its-kind partnership between the Boston Ballet and Northeastern, which helps professional ballet dancers earn college degrees to prepare them for careers after dancing. Photos by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University Even Jef Aérosol’s artwork is helping to protect the pack this year. Photo by Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University Scenes from the end of summer on campus. Photos by Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University Everyone could use a little hydration during this heatwave. Vinny Mitchell, who works for the Landscape Services department at Northeastern, waters plants at the William E. Carter Playground. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University Members of the Northeastern facilities team sanitize and clean the International Village Dining facility. Photos by Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University Northeastern’s massive operation to test thousands of people regularly and quickly will be a crucial surveillance tool to promote the safety of everyone on the Boston campus and in its surrounding communities. Photo by Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University. Photos by Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University Rebeca Rosengaus, an associate professor in the Department of Marine and Environmental Sciences, studies how social insects keep diseases from wiping out their colonies. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University Joseph E. Aoun, president of Northeastern, wears a face mask encouraging social distancing made by a student. Photo by Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University Northeastern’s massive operation to test thousands of people regularly and quickly will be a crucial surveillance tool to promote the safety of everyone on the Boston campus and in its surrounding communities. Photos by Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University Karen Fayad, a graduate student who is trying to raise money to help Lebanon after the explosion. Photos by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University The Russell J. Call Children’s Center on Northeastern’s Boston campus reopened on Monday, Aug. 10, following state and local guidelines as well as the university’s robust sanitation protocol to keep children, parents, staff, and the surrounding communities healthy. Photos by Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University Gino Berardion, who works in the HVAC unit of Facilities Services at Northeastern, changes filters on the air conditioning unit outside the Cabot Testing Center. #YesFilter Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University Northeastern student Jeriyla Kamau-Weng conducts research at the Marine Science Center in Nahant. Kamau-Weng has recently become active with the #BlackinSTEM movement on Twitter. Photos by Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University Doctoral student Evelyn Mendoza demonstrates a robot shaving system in assistant professor Peter Whitney’s lab inside the Interdisciplinary Science & Engineering Complex. Photos by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University Julian Peña, who studies business administration, wears a face mask while reading a book on campus. Photo by Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University Amir Grinstein is an associate professor of marketing in the D’Amore-McKim School of Business. Photos by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University Scenes of the end of summer on campus. Photos by Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University Gerald Cotten helps his daughter Briana Cotten, a resident assistant who’s studying biology, load a moving bin to move into East Village. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University Mollie Harreys and Maxwell Benman, who are on co-op for the Sign Shop in the facilities department of Northeastern, work on COVID-19 guideline sign orders. Photos by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University Sean Sullivan, who studies business, wears a face mask while studying in the shade on Krentzman Quad. Photo by Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University Welcome to the Hybrid NUflex classroom: Eight cupcake-shaped microphones extend from the ceiling like futuristic stalactites. Two swiveling cameras flank the clock at the front of the room. A single camera at the back focuses its lens on the instructor, blackboard, and projection screen. Northeastern is ready for hybrid learning. Photo by Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University Denis Sullivan is a professor of political science and international affairs in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University Prospective students receive information about campus from a safe distance at the visitor center tent. Photos by Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University Incoming students move into their residence halls on campus. Photos by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University Medical assistants listen to instructions during an orientation for the COVID-19 testing center, which will take place in the Cabot Physical Education Center on the Boston campus. Photo by Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University A student walks past #ProtectThePackNU signage on the steps outside Ell Hall on Aug. 25, 2020. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University School is back in session for students (and their dogs). Izabella Bankowski, who studies behavioral neuroscience, teaches a new trick to Kaia, her 15-week-old Cavapoo puppy, at Centennial Common. Photos by Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University Graduate students in Northeastern’s Physician Assistant Program join Michael Bessette, an assistant clinical professor in the Bouve College of Health Sciences, over Zoom for a skills lab. Photos by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University Journalism student José da Silva has spent his summer helping cover local stories at the free alternative newspaper, DigBoston. Photo by Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University Chuck Doughty, Northeastern’s landscaping program director and co-op Marc Carlson, who studies landscape architecture and environmental science, walk through the arboretum tagging process. Photos by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University Randall Hughes is a newly appointed associate dean for equity, and an associate professor in the College of Science. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University Incoming students move into their residence halls on campus. Photos by Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University Students walk through campus at a safe distance. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University