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The Consulate General of Mexico has awarded a $9,000 IME Becas grant to ��ɫ��Ƶ. This is the fifth year Northeastern has received the grant. 

��ɫ��Ƶ Associate Professor of Psychology Lisa Hollis-Sawyer has published her sixth book, a workbook titled “Black Belt Statistics: A Competency-Based Approach (Plus SPSS and R).”

��ɫ��Ƶ honored celebrated poet, essayist, activist, novelist and scholar Ana Castillo with the Distinguished Alumnus Award during the annual Golden Gala and Alumni Awards. This year’s ceremony, emceed by 2011 Distinguished Alumnus Award winner and retired WGN anchor Robert Jordan, took place Oct. 17.

The Student Center for Science Engagement (SCSE) had to change the way it usually facilitates research because of the pandemic. Yet, even while research was done remotely, the SCSE was able to conduct 18 projects from eight departments and will host a virtual symposium later this month to showcase the results.

Stage Center Theatre has launched a virtual theatre festival for social justice featuring works submitted by the ��ɫ��Ƶ community. Submissions are still being accepted for the festival as well as the Undocumented Cookbook and COVID-19 student archives.

��ɫ��Ƶ has been awarded a grant from the Governor's Emergency Education Relief (GEER) Fund to aid recruitment and retention efforts. Some of these efforts were mentioned in President Gloria J. Gibson’s State of the University address, which took place virtually on Oct. 27. Read about all this and more in Noteworthy at Northeastern.

The Fall 2020 semester wraps up next week, but ��ɫ��Ƶ is not slowing down.

When the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in March, forcing the rapid shift to remote teaching and learning for the rest of the Spring 2020 semester, ��ɫ��Ƶ’s Student Center for Science Engagement had just put out a call to the faculty for its Undergraduate Summer Research and Professional Training Program.

��ɫ��Ƶ increased its graduate student enrollment by more than 10 percent and recorded the best fall-to-fall retention of first-time, full-time freshmen in a decade, according to the official Fall 2020 enrollment numbers.

For the seventh year in a row, U.S. News & World Report has ranked ��ɫ��Ƶ No. 1 for students who graduate with the least amount of debt among Midwest regional universities. ��ɫ��Ƶ also ranked highly in three other categories. This week, Northeastern also announced that the U.S. Department of Education has awarded the University a five-year, $3 million Developing Hispanic-Serving Institutions Program grant. If you’re looking for some fun, it’s also ��ɫ��Ƶ Weekend! Read about all this and more in this week’s Noteworthy at Northeastern.