New student on the path to discovery
About 10 years ago, Jacqueline Ali was playing an adventure game for PlayStation 2 called Sly Cooper And The Thievius Raccoonus when she unlocked a secret behind-the-scenes movie about the game. The...
View ArticleBalloon Mapping!
Alright folks, today I debut my nascent video editing skilz and you all get to be my first viewers. On Monday, we got a last-minute heads up that assistant professor Ryan Cordell’s class was mapping...
View ArticleECE Superstars win at supercomputers
The Open Compute team used the most unconventional hardware in their supercomputer, winning them first place at the recent cluster challenge. Photo via Dave Kaeli. When professor Dave Kaeli approached...
View ArticleOn Spring Break, students spring into action
This week, 186 members of the Northeastern University community will travel to 15 communities across the U.S. and four other countries for Alternative Spring Break—a weeklong immersive living and...
View ArticleGrassroots experiences inspire political dreams
Leah Campbell, SSH’14, set high standards for her first co-op experience at Northeastern. Her ideal position, she decided, would help her develop grassroots organizational skills and overseas campaign...
View ArticleNext stop: space
When she was in middle school, Rachael Tompa turned down her first opportunity to visit the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. At the time, Tompa wasn’t much interested in space travel. But...
View ArticleIt’s center stage for student speaker
When Emily Izzo’s parents ask her where she will be sitting during Northeastern’s 112th commencement at the TD Garden on Friday morning, she’ll have a very special answer: the stage. That is from where...
View ArticleThe picture-perfect co-op
Last January, Carlos Villalobos picked up and moved to San Francisco to work on co-op as a digital marketing specialist for Adobe Systems, the multinational computer software company. He loved the job,...
View ArticleAlumnus earns Fulbright for research in South Africa
When Dan Marsden, S’13, visited South Africa for a Dialogue of Civilizations program in the summer of 2012, it wasn’t the stunning views from Cape Town’s Table Mountain or the safari in Kruger National...
View ArticleThe King of queen bees
In February, Lena King saw an open bee hive for the first time, and she was hooked. “There’s just something captivating about the way bees function, the way they move,” said King, S’15, a fourth-year...
View ArticleGuest Post: Inside the NASA Langley Research Center
This is a guest blog post by Craig Schmidt, a fourth-year undergraduate student in the College of Engineering and recipient of the prestigious Vertical Flight Foundation Scholarship. This summer he’s...
View ArticleFirst Pages takes students to Katrina’s aftermath
With an award-winning author as their guide, Northeastern’s incoming first-year students this summer walked the halls of a New Orleans hospital immobilized by the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. What...
View ArticleHonors student wins Marshall Scholarship
Julia Ebert, S’15, has won a Marshall Scholarship to pursue a one-year master’s of research in bioengineering at Imperial College London starting in the fall. Founded by the British government in 1953...
View ArticleAsk the entrepreneur: 3Qs with Chirag Kulkarni
Chirag Kulkarni, DMSB’18, accrued a wealth of entrepreneurial knowledge at a young age from having started a successful tennis racquet stringing business in high school and studying the successes and...
View ArticleBusiness student embraces the entrepreneurial spirit
Kate Murdock’s short-term professional goal is to work for a startup consulting firm, a position for which her qualifications run deep. Murdock, DMSB’18, is an investment analyst for IDEA:...
View ArticleCo-op illustrates Northeastern’s strong Silicon Valley presence
As Northeastern University grows its presence in Silicon Valley, co-op students such as Samantha Kim, DMSB’16, are already benefiting from experiential learning opportunities the university has...
View ArticleThe lab whiz
Ellie Shin was determined to find a co-op working in a wet lab on campus. She enrolled at Northeastern as a history major but took science courses during her freshman year, setting her sights on a...
View ArticleStudent’s materials research leads to Goldwater Scholarship
A self-described “ever learner,” second-year chemical engineering major Emma Kaeli has cultivated her passion for research while at Northeastern, which has helped her realize her dream of improving...
View ArticleMarine science student wins Hollings Scholarship
Benjamin Moran, S’18, a marine biology major, has been awarded the Ernest F. Hollings Scholarship by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The scholarship supports students interested in...
View ArticleMeet the graduates: Jordan Lieberman
Name: Jordan Lieberman College: D’Amore-McKim School of Business Campus activities: Co-founder and COO of the Center for Financial Independence, president of the Interfraternity Council, Student...
View ArticleMeet the graduates: Lindsay Weigel
Health sciences major Lindsay Weigel, BHS’15, has shined in the classroom, but her Northeastern experience has also been defined by community service, global outreach, and campus involvement. Together,...
View ArticleMeet the graduates: David Barra
David Barra is a natural-born leader and an insatiable learner, a selfless humanitarian and a member of Northeastern’s “Huntington 100.” His resumé reads like the curriculum vitae of the quintessential...
View ArticleMeet the graduates: Alexander Colville
Name: Alexander Colville Major: Chemical engineering Campus activities: Co-founder and inaugural president of the Northeastern Biomedical Engineering Society; undergraduate representative on the...
View ArticleStudent uses theater to examine, inspire social change
Northeastern student Pablo Hernandez Basulto spent five months earlier this year working on theatre projects in Rio de Janeiro and London that engaged homeless people in the arts. The impactful...
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