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These women made history on election night

A record-setting number of women won seats in Congress on Tuesday night in the midterm elections. Here are seven trailblazers who won their races and…

Sophia Fox-Sowell November 7, 2018

Can’t-miss events on campus this November

Homecoming, Global Entrepreneurship Week, and the 50th anniversary celebration of the John D. O’Bryant African American Institute are among the happenings on Northeastern’s Boston campus…

Sophia Fox-Sowell November 1, 2018

10 can’t-miss events on campus this October

October is full of events on Northeastern’s Boston campus, including an audio engineering workshop series, a chocolate and cheese tasting, and a day to destroy…

Sophia Fox-Sowell October 1, 2018

Five things people get wrong about Antarctica

What comes to mind when you think of Antarctica? Gusts of wind blowing across a vast, empty tundra? Droves of penguins dancing and sliding across…

Sophia Fox-Sowell September 25, 2018

National! Punctuation! Day! Is! Here!

It’s National Punctuation Day: a day for people who care about periods, em dashes, colons, and Oxford commas to take pride…

Sophia Fox-Sowell September 24, 2018

Five tips to master moving in on campus

Approximately 9,000 Northeastern students will live in university housing this fall, the majority of whom will be moving in this week. To help you tackle…

Sophia Fox-Sowell August 29, 2018

Fuel-efficient cars are expensive. These researchers are trying to make them more affordable.

Northeastern professor Sanjeev Mukerjee and his research partner have received a $1 million grant from the Department of Energy to develop technology to lower the…

Sophia Fox-Sowell August 24, 2018

Students at Northeastern, Meiji University in Tokyo ‘have a lot more in common than they thought’

“We could have gone to Tokyo and had a surface-level engagement with the city and country, but we had a much more enriching experience because…

Sophia Fox-Sowell August 22, 2018

These students are making science easier to understand on Wikipedia, one article at a time

In Cecelia Musselman’s “Advanced Writing for the Sciences” course, students are required to write an article for Wikipedia. For some students, the assignment was terrifying.

Sophia Fox-Sowell August 15, 2018

Northeastern, Nature Conservancy team up to tackle climate change, save coastal cities

The partnership will include the creation of a position for a postdoctoral fellow who will work to help save coastal communities from the effects of…

Sophia Fox-Sowell August 8, 2018

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