co-op

Marc Carlson, who’s on co-op on Northeastern’s arboretum, inspects a Japanese maple hybrid, also known as an Acer palmatum. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

At school, at work, and at home among the trees

Marc Carlson knows every nook and cranny of campus from walking it day in and day out as part of his co-op on the campus arboretum. Carlson works for Chuck Doughty, who oversees the university’s landscaping. The pair starts each week by walking the campus to survey which of the arboretum’s 1,400 trees and roughly 120 different plant species are flourishing, and which may need a little TLC.

by Molly Callahan October 28, 2020

Photo by Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University

Your guide to Convocation 2020

The traditional welcoming ceremony for first-year and transfer students will look and feel different. But there’s no shortage of ways to get involved and make friends through student organizations, club sports, and other university offices and departments.

by Peter Ramjug September 7, 2020

Mollie Harreys and Maxwell Benman, who are on co-op for the Sign Shop in the facilities department of Northeastern, work on COVID-19 guideline sign orders. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

Where’d all these signs come from? Meet the co-ops who distribute COVID-19 directions on campus.

Mollie Harreys and Maxwell Benmen, co-ops at Northeastern’s Sign Shop, have been working around the clock to outfit the Boston campus with signs to promote the safety of everyone on campus and in the surrounding communities.

by Emily Arntsen August 26, 2020

Makaila Cerrone, who recently graduated with degrees in political science and psychology, will start at MissionSafe, a Boston-based nonprofit organization, in August to work to prepare Black and Hispanic children for high school and college. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

Education (and Lady Gaga) helped her pave her path forward. Now she wants to give others the same opportunity.

After five years of community service and advocacy work at Northeastern, Makaila Cerrone is ready to help Black and Hispanic youth prepare for college with Boston-based nonprofit, MissionSafe.

by Peter Ramjug July 28, 2020

Hand-out photos of Molly Dennie, Pauline Seremitis and Victoria Diaz.

‘We have to treat everybody as though they have it’

Many Northeastern students in healthcare have been working at Boston-area hospitals throughout the pandemic. Here are some of their stories.

by Ian Thomsen May 27, 2020

Third-year nursing students Hannah Terry, Yuchen Zhang, and Susan Dawson are serving co-ops at Massachusetts General Hospital during the pandemic. They are among the 50 Northeastern students who are on co-op at Boston-area hospitals. Photos by Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University

They chose to stay and fight

At a time when many of us are being advised to keep our distance, dozens of Northeastern nursing students are serving co-ops at Boston hospitals during the public health crisis. Here are three of their stories.

by Ian Thomsen May 15, 2020

Photo by Adam Glanzman/Northeastern University

Welcome to the newest class of the Huntington 100!

Chosen from a field of 750 students, this class of the Huntington 100 recognizes students who have excelled in research, co-op, athletics, entrepreneurship, community service, and leadership.

by Irvin Zhang May 3, 2020

‘We’re the youngest people out there fighting this.’

From hunting down protective gowns to comforting those too weak to speak, Northeastern students Evelyn Goroza and Thomas Cava are becoming quickly initiated into critical care medicine.

by Jenna Pelletier - contributor April 25, 2020

Abhishek Mogili, a third-year biology and political science student at Northeastern, works as a department technician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. Photo by Adam Glanzman for Northeastern University

He’s preparing the ER for a surge of COVID-19 patients. There’s nowhere else he’d rather be.

Every night at 8 p.m., as many of us are winding down for the evening, Abhishek Mogili pulls a mask over his face and wriggles his hands into purple nitrile gloves. He’s ready to begin another 12-and-a-half-hour shift in the emergency department at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

by Khalida Sarwari March 27, 2020

Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

Northeastern University moves to online learning at its Boston campus

In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, and following the guidance of public health authorities, as well as the expertise in infectious diseases of its own faculty, Northeastern University will move to online teaching for students at its Boston campus starting Thursday, March 12. Students are not required to move out of their residence halls.

by Molly Callahan March 11, 2020