Happy Friday, Huskies! At the end of an exciting week, it’s important to pause and reflect on a job well done. In Boston, labs were lit up with lights and insights that could change the future of biofuels. When they’re not studying the tiniest of elements under massive microscopes, researchers are also using lasers to unlock the next steps of innovation and understanding. And in between classes, co-ops and intense study sessions, students found time to cheer on four Husky graduates at the Winter Olympics in Milan. Students on the Boston campus shed tears of joy – and stress – as they watched the women’s ice hockey team win the gold in real time. It was a nail-biting finish and a fitting farewell to the Olympics Games, which will close on Sunday.
Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern UniversityPhotos by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University02/17/26 – BOSTON, MA. – Playstation video game controller photo illustration on Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2026. Photo by Alyssa Stone/Northeastern University02/17/26 – BOSTON, MA. – Playstation video game controller photo illustration on Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2026. Photo by Alyssa Stone/Northeastern University02/17/26 – BOSTON, MA. – Playstation video game controller photo illustration on Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2026. Photo by Alyssa Stone/Northeastern UniversityPhotos by Alyssa Stone/Northeastern University02/17/26 – BOSTON, MA. – William Gasparrini, a doctoral student in Professor Ben Woolston’s lab,is researching a novel approach that could make biofuel production more efficient on Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2026 in the Mugar Life Science Center. Photo by Alyssa Stone/Northeastern University02/17/26 – BOSTON, MA. – William Gasparrini and Guanyu Zhou, doctoral students in Professor Ben Woolston’s lab, are researching a novel approach that could make biofuel production more efficient on Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2026 in the Mugar Life Science Center. Photo by Alyssa Stone/Northeastern University02/17/26 – BOSTON, MA. – William Gasparrini and Guanyu Zhou, doctoral students in Professor Ben Woolston’s lab, are researching a novel approach that could make biofuel production more efficient on Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2026 in the Mugar Life Science Center. Photo by Alyssa Stone/Northeastern University02/17/26 – BOSTON, MA. – William Gasparrini and Guanyu Zhou, doctoral students in Professor Ben Woolston’s lab, are researching a novel approach that could make biofuel production more efficient on Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2026 in the Mugar Life Science Center. Photo by Alyssa Stone/Northeastern UniversityPhotos by Alyssa Stone/Northeastern UniversityA member of the Northeastern community walks beneath an umbrella through the rainy Boston campus. Photo by Alyssa Stone/Northeastern University02/18/26 – BOSTON, MA. – A member of the Northeastern takes the ISEC stairs on Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026. Photo by Alyssa Stone/Northeastern University02/18/26 – BOSTON, MA. – A member of the Northeastern community takes the stairs by Daniel Anguilu’s mural “100 Years of Solitude” on Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026. Photo by Alyssa Stone/Northeastern UniversityPhotos by Alyssa Stone/Northeastern University02/19/26 – BOSTON, MA. – Fang Fang, Northeastern associate teaching professor and geographer specializing in urban green space, environmental planning and landscape dynamics, poses for a portrait on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2026. Photo by Alyssa Stone/Northeastern University02/19/26 – BOSTON, MA. – Fang Fang, Northeastern associate teaching professor and geographer specializing in urban green space, environmental planning and landscape dynamics, poses for a portrait on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2026. Photo by Alyssa Stone/Northeastern UniversityPhotos by Alyssa Stone/Northeastern University02/18/26 – BOSTON, MA. – Charles Kissell, a graduate researcher in professor Leigh Plant’s lab, works on single-molecule analysis beneath a microscope in an ISEC lab on Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026. Photo by Alyssa Stone/Northeastern University02/18/26 – BOSTON, MA. – Northeastern professor Leigh Plant works with lasers in his ISEC lab on Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026. Photo by Alyssa Stone/Northeastern University02/18/26 – BOSTON, MA. – Charles Kissell, a graduate researcher in professor Leigh Plant’s lab, works on protein analysis beneath a microscope in an ISEC lab on Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026. Photo by Alyssa Stone/Northeastern UniversityPhotos by Alyssa Stone/Northeastern University02/18/26 – BOSTON, MA. – Shubh Thorat, a fourth-year at Northeastern who worked on an AI project during his co-op at Amazon AWS, codes in ISEC on Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026. Photo by Alyssa Stone/Northeastern University02/18/26 – BOSTON, MA. – Shubh Thorat, a fourth-year at Northeastern who worked on an AI project during his co-op at Amazon AWS, codes in ISEC on Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026. Photo by Alyssa Stone/Northeastern University02/18/26 – BOSTON, MA. – Shubh Thorat, a fourth-year at Northeastern who worked on an AI project during his co-op at Amazon AWS, codes in ISEC on Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026. Photo by Alyssa Stone/Northeastern UniversityPhotos by Alyssa Stone/Northeastern University02/19/26 – BOSTON, MA. – Northeastern students watch the Olympic USA women’s hockey team take on Canada in the gold medal game in the Curry Student Center on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026. Photo by Alyssa Stone/Northeastern University02/19/26 – BOSTON, MA. – Northeastern students watch the Olympic USA women’s hockey team take on Canada in the gold medal game in the Curry Student Center on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026. Photo by Alyssa Stone/Northeastern University02/19/26 – BOSTON, MA. – Northeastern students watch the Olympic USA women’s hockey team take on Canada in the gold medal game in the Curry Student Center on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026. Photo by Alyssa Stone/Northeastern University02/19/26 – BOSTON, MA. – Northeastern students watch the Olympic USA women’s hockey team take on Canada in the gold medal game in the Curry Student Center on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026. Photo by Alyssa Stone/Northeastern UniversityPhotos by Alyssa Stone/Northeastern University
