The only thing more certain than a cold and snowy winter in New England is Northeastern University winning the Beanpot.

The Huskies won the women’s championship for the third straight year and 20th time overall Tuesday night, shutting out Boston University, 4-0, before 13,279 fans at TD Garden.

The crowd was the largest to ever watch a women’s hockey game in New England — breaking last year’s Women’s Beanpot record of 10,633 — and the fifth largest in women’s college hockey history.

Lisa Jönsson, a freshman from Stockholm, Sweden, made 30 saves for the Huskies (15-8-1). Including Northeastern’s 4-2 semifinal win over Boston College, she stopped 65 of 67 shots to earn tournament MVP honors and the Bertagna Award as the best goalie.

“I’m out of words, it was just so amazing,” Jönsson said. “I was nervous before the game, but I got really encouraged by the crowd instead of getting nervous. I felt like they had our backs the whole way and the team was just awesome. … It was really a team effort tonight.”

Skylar Irving, Lily Shannon, Jade Bogden and Lily Yovetich scored the goals, while Bogden and Tory Mariano both had two assists. Kristina Allard, Jules Constantinople and Irving — celebrating her 22nd birthday — also had assists.

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Abigail Hassman’s view was affirmed as she made her way through the crowded room: Time and again she heard of how highly Northeastern University student-athletes are valued by employers.

“A lot of people that I talked to said, ‘We’re on the lookout for athletes — we understand the commitment that it takes to be an athlete and how that is really valued in the workplace,’” said Hassman, a champion cross-country runner at Northeastern. “So that was nice to hear.”

Hassman was among those attending the first Athletics Co-op Fair, a Jan. 14 event at Cabot Physical Education Center connecting more than 25 employers to as many as 450 student-athletes representing 18 Northeastern teams.

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The American grocery store is a place where a bevy of food, drink and sundries are at shoppers’ fingertips.

But researchers with the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University have found that despite the abundance of food options available on grocery shelves most contain processed or ultra-processed ingredients.

Northeastern researchers analyzed ingredient lists of food available online from Target, Whole Foods and Walmart. The results were collected in GroceryDB, an online database of over 50,000 foods and it is searchable on the website Truefood. The study reveals the degree of food processing, empowering consumers to make informed choices.

“Food labels omit key information: whether a product is natural, processed or ultra processed,” says Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, the Robert Gray Dodge professor of network science and a distinguished university professor at Northeastern. “Inspired by mounting evidence that food processing affects our health, we set out to change that.”

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Most people leave high school with the basic knowledge that everything in the physical world consists of atoms — made up of protons, neutrons and electrons.

Professor of physics Yizhi You says the limited mobility of fractons makes them a promising option for advancing quantum hardware and building more efficient quantum computers.

We also know about the three common states of matter we encounter daily — solid, liquid and gas.

A theoretical physicist like Yizhi You, a professor at Northeastern University, studies the tiny world of subatomic particles. She examines how these particles interact with each other in materials.

These interactions can lead to unusual states of matter and phenomena, like quasiparticles — when groups of particles work together and behave as if they were a single particle.

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