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Mills College students and faculty were optimistic that the merger with Northeastern will allow Mills's focus on women's leadership and racial and gender equality to continue. Photo by Ruby Wallau for Mills College

At Mills College, excitement and relief over merger with Northeastern

Annalise Totten, a second-year biochemistry and molecular biology major at Mills, is looking forward to tapping into Northeastern’s global co-op network. A Mills dean added: The merger “breathed new life” into the college.

by Peter Ramjug and Tanner Stening September 15, 2021

Students stroll on the Mills College campus. Photo by Ruby Wallau for Mills College

‘Together we have an opportunity to create something truly unique in higher education’

Message from President Joseph E. Aoun: "We aspire to build a comprehensive, bicoastal university that leverages the complementary strengths of Mills and Northeastern for the benefit of students and society."

by President Joseph E. Aoun September 14, 2021

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Northeastern University and Mills College finalize historic merger

The merger will bring Mills College and its distinctive mission focused on access, equity, social justice, and women’s leadership into Northeastern’s global network, which includes campuses across North America and in London, England.

by Molly Callahan September 14, 2021

Roux Institute teams up with Techstars to help incubate startups in Maine

Ten startup companies have moved into the headquarters of the Roux Institute in Portland, Maine, where they are engaging in an intensive 13-week partnership with Techstars that is designed to grow high-tech businesses that will attract investors and strengthen the regional economy.

by Ian Thomsen September 14, 2021

A portrait of Northeastern student Khailah Nichole-Robin Griffin.

Her family history inspires her to help aspiring doctors from nontraditional backgrounds

Khailah Nichole-Robin Griffin, a fifth-year business student and captain of Northeastern’s track and field team, drew from her own experiences while creating a nonprofit organization to help nontraditional pre-medical students. She’s been inspired by her late grandmother, a Georgia sharecropper who enabled Griffin to succeed “because of the sacrifices she made.”

by Ian Thomsen September 10, 2021

Northeastern law scholar with a focus on data justice appointed to White House post

Rashida Richardson, a 2011 law school graduate who joined the Northeastern faculty as assistant professor of law and political science on July 1, was tapped to join the Office of Science and Technology Policy—a role in which she’ll help to advise President Joe Biden and others on issues related to government data collection, and data security and civil rights.

by Molly Callahan August 18, 2021

Bouvé College of Health Sciences’ new School of Pharmacy Dean Tatiana Bronich. Photo by Alyssa Stone/Northeastern University

She was grading college-level chemistry homework when she was a little girl. Now she’s the dean of the School of Pharmacy.

“One opportunity we have is to help students find their purpose, their ‘why.’ As the dean, my ‘why’ is to give students a chance to discover and pursue their passions,” says Tatiana Bronich, the new dean of Northeastern’s School of Pharmacy.

by Emily Arntsen - contributor August 17, 2021

Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

Northeastern will require indoor mask-wearing starting in September

To safeguard the health and wellness of the Northeastern community at a time when its campus populations swell with students traveling from around the world, the university will require students, faculty, staff, visitors, and vendors to wear masks indoors—regardless of vaccination status—for the start of the fall semester, officials announced.

by Molly Callahan August 11, 2021

Remembering Mary Hickey

Mary Hickey, associate clinical professor and director of undergraduate affairs in the physical therapy department at the Bouvé College of Health Sciences, died one month before she would have turned 60, and seven years after she was first diagnosed with breast cancer. Her passing in June was mourned by the hundreds of students, teachers, administrators, and staffers who had known her for more than 20 years at Northeastern.

by Ian Thomsen August 9, 2021

John Soliven a work study at the Institute for Wireless Internet of Things (W-IoT) monitors the Colosseum, the world's largest RF emulator with 256 programmable software radios which enables academic, government, and industry researchers to perform scalable and repeatable experimentation in wireless systems in a large-scale emulation environment, at Northeastern University’s Innovation Campus in Burlington, Massachusetts.

Northeastern receives rare designation by FCC to expand wireless technology research

The university was designated a Spectrum Innovation Zone by the Federal Communications Commission on Thursday, a status that will afford researchers at the university new opportunities to build and test the next generation of wireless technology. Northeastern is one of four locations in the U.S. to hold the designation.

by Molly Callahan August 5, 2021

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