From two espresso carts to 200 employees, Helen Russell is a trailblazer. The co-founder of Equator Coffees & Teas shares how Northeastern’s experiential learning put her on the entrepreneurial road.
After two heartbreaking losses in CAA title games, Phillips has assembled her strongest team yet — with even larger goals at play.
As a lawyer in Philadelphia, Levant stole close to $2 million from clients to feed his gambling addiction. Now he’s a Northeastern Ph.D. student pushing for federal legislation that treats betting as a public health issue.
A 2005 Northeastern graduate, Nance experiments with absurdist comedy and social messaging in his series “Random Acts of Flyness.” He says the university’s energy and the friendships he made here helped shape his career.
Forged in the unrest of the Civil Rights movement, Iota Phi Theta’s Omicron chapter helped the university’s Black students find purpose and community. Founders hope to extend that tradition to a new generation.
This Northeastern alum, TikTok star, Miss Rachel regular, and actress recently made her debut in “Grey House.” Deaf actors are breaking new ground on stage and screen — and making performance spaces more accessible.
Two married art and architecture professors and their Northeastern students explored an ancient city in the throes of transformation — by a young government, urban renewal and Russian expats fleeing the effects of war.
These lessons, based on the experiences of upperclassmen, may help new Northeastern students get off to a faster start.
The 2021 alum powered the middle seats on the university’s Division I rowing team. Like her efforts on the water, the visual effects Knehans designs for major movies are subtle, but they’re vital.
John Kwoka has long argued that American competitiveness and U.S. workers were suffering as power was consolidated among a smaller number of companies.
Vladimir Torchilin has lived many lives and has a story to tell from every one of them. The Northeastern University professor reflects on growing up in the Soviet Union, his revolutionary work in biochemistry and his complicated journey to the U.S.
They averaged a 3.411 GPA while also boosting the university to a No. 11 national ranking for athletic success.
Amílcar Antonio Barreto’s political education began in his grandfather’s ice cream parlor in Puerto Rico. Now, he brings his passion for his home country’s complicated politics to studying global nationalism.
Steve Cody is always looking for a laugh, whether it’s on the stand-up stage or in the offices of his PR firm, Peppercomm. Cody sheds some light on his journey to success and why more businesses and CEOs should embrace laughter.
For “Kids Across the Spectrums,” the Northeastern University communications professor spent nearly a decade studying the tech and media use of over 60 autistic kids with a range of abilities, ethnicities, and economic backgrounds.
David Fatula always knew he wanted to start his own business. After a 20-year career in real estate finance, Fatula, Northeastern class of 2001, gave it all up to start Guineafowl Adventure Co., offering guided hikes through New Hampshire’s rugged White Mountains. Now, he does what he loves and he loves what he does.
Michael Meltsner, the George J. and Kathleen Waters Matthews Distinguished University Professor of Law, is retiring after 44 fruitful years.
“Constitutional Contagion,” a new book by Northeastern law professor Wendy Parmet, argues that constitutional law has endangered our health.
A new online intergenerational tutoring program for early literacy development helps kindergartners and retired elders build meaningful relationships.
Social skills. Problem solving. Therapy. In Emily Mann’s Science of Play class, Northeastern students learn how critical play is for children—and themselves.
NEWPORT, R.I.—A punk rock drummer turned real estate agent turned restaurateur, Scott Kirmil, also a Northeastern alum, owns half a dozen eateries in Rhode Island and is always on the lookout for the next great flavor or idea.
Northeastern law school grad Elyse Cherry talks about her path: “In my adult lifetime we’ve gone from living under threat of being fired, being a criminal because of being an LGBTQ+ person to having same-sex marriage and a public life and a focus on bringing our authentic selves everywhere we go. It’s a gigantic shift.”
The Huskies’ men’s heavyweight eight crew reunited at Henley-on-Thames to celebrate the golden anniversary of one of Northeastern’s greatest teams.
Northeastern graduate Kellie Ware has dedicated her career to making the legal profession more diverse. Black Americans make up 12.4% of the population, but just 4.7% of lawyers.
Since 2021 Northeastern has funded Co-ops In Service to our Neighbors, which provides a paid, full-time co-op to six nonprofit partners.
Northeastern’s groundbreaking law lab connects artists, designers and law students to open up the law to more people.
The entrepreneurial, blue-collar guy from the South Shore of Massachusetts turned one truck into a global, multi-billion-dollar company.
Northeastern faculty and students created a performance based on statistics about green spaces and gentrification.
The Digital Transgender Archive, supported by Northeastern, has made public a new collection of materials on Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera.
