Photos the month by Matthew Modoono April 29, 2022 by Alyssa Stone Share Facebook LinkedIn Twitter The morning sun lights up the Boston skyline. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University Northeastern’s last full month for the 2021-22 academic year comes to an end as students, faculty, and staff enjoy summer break—or return for the summer session. In April, a national vigil was held where people joined in solidarity with Ukraine. The Northeastern University robotics club saw a major booster in members for the first time since the pandemic started. And flowers began to bloom across the university, welcoming the spring season. Northeastern University raises the Ukrainian Flag outside Ell Hall. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University Members of the Northeastern community join in solidarity with Ukraine at 6:00 pm on Krentzman Quad as the Ukrainian Cultural Club hosts a national vigil with many area universities participating. Photos by Alyssa Stone/Northeastern University The Northeastern University robotics club has been revived since the pandemic and grown exponentially to over 400 members. Photos by Alyssa Stone/Northeastern University Samira Malik is among at least 11 members of the Northeastern community who will be running the 126th Boston Marathon on Monday to raise money for charitable causes. Photos by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University Students on the solar pyrolysis of waste plastics capstone team test the device on the top of Columbus garage. Photos by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University Northeastern bioengineering graduate student Jane Lee works with lasers and optical imaging in the sensing of cancer cells in the Mark Niedre lab in the Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex on the Boston campus. Photo by Alyssa Stone/Northeastern University Northeastern student Stephanie Chung plays with Cora, her 9-week-old Australian Shepherd, at Centennial Common. Photos by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University Scenes from across Northeastern's Boston campus as the weather changes and students venture outside. Photos by Alyssa Stone/Northeastern University Dacheng Lin, a Northeastern research associate professor, has identified a new class of high-energy signals that were created by a violent collision of two neutron stars. ÒThis is about the fundamental physics of our universe,Ó Lin says. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University The rising sun lights up the Egan Engineering and Science Research Center. Photos by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University Flowering trees begin to bloom on Northeastern's Boston campus. Photos by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University Kai Tsao's music career is off to an award-winning start. Having arrived at Northeastern in 2018 as a business major, the singer-songwriter flipped the script and dove headfirst into music, honing his skills and eventually learning how to digitally produce his own songs. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University Northeastern students work on the PARSEC (Percussive And Rotary Surveying & Extracting Carousel) robot built for the NASA RASC-AL Moon to Mars Ice & Prospecting Challenge and a RISE competition winner outside the Gainsborough garage. Photo by Alyssa Stone/Northeastern University Students and School of Pharmacy faculty members engage during the Tri Frat pie for Ukraine event hosted by Kappa Psi, Lambda Kappa Sigma and Phi delta chi on Centennial Common. All proceeds--which come from members of the Northeastern community donating money to toss a pie into their friends' faces--benefit the International rescue committee. Photos by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University Flowers bloom as a bird snacks on them in a tree in Northeastern’s arboretum on the Boston campus. Photo by Alyssa Stone/Northeastern University Members of the Northeastern community attend Giving Day events. Photos by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University Tulips begin to bloom on Northeastern's Boston campus. Photos by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University Jack Cline, an experienced Washington, D.C.-based higher-education lobbyist, has been appointed vice president for federal relations at Northeastern University. Photo by Alyssa Stone/Northeastern University Workers wasted no time removing more than 10,000 nuts and bolts that held the sections of the Carter Playground dome together. Photos by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University A member of the Northeastern community walks down Huntington Ave during a rainy day on the Boston campus. Photo by Alyssa Stone/Northeastern University Documentary director Daniel Ferguson and crew shoot a scene for the documentary New England and the Sea of Stories in Northeastern's Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex. The crew are filming with a high-resolution digital camera that's equipped with special wide-angle lenses to optimize visuals for the OMNIMAX Dome. Photos by Alyssa Stone/Northeastern University NUPD celebrates Cooper’s graduation from the GOFI dogs training program with students in the Rainbow tent on Northeastern’s Boston campus. Photos by Alyssa Stone/Northeastern University