A piece of Boston’s history will come to an end this weekend. Matthews Arena will be closing its doors after this Saturday’s Northeastern-Boston University men’s hockey game. The Northeastern-owned facility will be deconstructed for a new state-of-the-art facility, which is set to be ready in 2028.

“By and large, Orthodox Christians are not far right. It’s a minority group within a minority religious tradition,” said Sarah Riccardi-Swartz, who studies religion and politics at Northeastern University.

After 115 years of hosting iconic Boston games, the oldest hockey and basketball arena in the NCAA will host its last game on Saturday with several college hockey luminaries in attendance.

“By and large, Orthodox Christians are not far right. It’s a minority group within a minority religious tradition,” said Sarah Riccardi-Swartz, who studies religion and politics at Northeastern University.

Last year, after word of an 1,100-calorie brownie sundae cookie with 110 grams of sugar went viral, a food-policy expert at Northeastern University said that “if these cookies were firearms, they’d be illegal.” 

The topic may become sticky because it’s one “that a user only wants to engage with sometimes,” said Laura Edelson, a computer science professor at Northeastern University who collaborated with The Post in a parallel TikTok research effort.

“Outright climate denying seems to be decreasing,” said Alaina Kinol, a PhD candidate at Northeastern University who studies resistance to climate policy. ​“What we’re seeing more is obstruction,” she added, “and tactics that delay action.”

Matthews Arena will be closing its doors this week after more than a century of hosting the biggest names not just in sports but also politics, music and culture. Now owned by Northeastern University, the 115-year-old barn will say goodbye when the Huskies play Beanpot rival Boston University in hockey on Saturday night. 

After the promises of Reconstruction began to wither, Black Americans searched for freedom in radically different locales. Caleb Gayle is a journalist, author and professor at Northeastern University, and he is also a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine. He joins guest host John McCaa to tell the story of Edward McCabe, who […]

The US State Department is changing its official font from Calibri — the designated font under the Biden administration — to Times New Roman. The change is part a long history connecting typeface with political ideology. Katherine Haenschen of Northeastern University joins Host Marco Werman to explain.

“In some ways, norovirus is the perfect pathogen,” agreed Dr. Neil Maniar, director of Northeastern University’s master of public health program. “It’s highly contagious, it can last on surfaces for up to two weeks, and it’s very difficult to kill.”

Kylie talks to Josephine Harmon, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Northeastern University in Boston, and Bonnie Medina – now 45 with two young children – who lives in London having left Seattle one-and-a-half years ago.