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The hidden side of Cairo

CAIRO— A Northeastern student on co-op in Egypt at The Cairo Review of Global Affairs is chronicling the ancient capital’s rapid cultural transformation.

by Sydney Wise - contributor March 12, 2020

Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Samyukta Rajkumar received her Master of Science at Northeastern University’s Toronto campus in 2017. She has worked as manager of regulatory affairs and quality systems at Exact Imaging since January 2019. Photo by Chloë Ellingson for Northeastern University

She saves lives, but not in an emergency room

TORONTO—Samyukta Rajkumar, who earned her master’s degree from Northeastern’s Toronto campus, always knew she wanted to help people. She just didn’t know it would mean helping a coworker detect very early-stage prostate cancer.

by Takara Small - contributor March 10, 2020

A panel discussion at Northeastern’s Women Who Empower in Mumbai featured 2020 Rhodes Scholar Kritika Singh and entrepreneurs Devita Saraf, Priya Prakash and Minal Vazirani moderated by Andrea Garcia. Photo by Sunil Thakkar for Northeastern University

‘I’m the boss. If I’m not going to be bossy, who will?’

Being at the top of male-dominated industries requires a certain amount of rabble-rousing, a certain type of guts. Indeed, women in India and the United Kingdom said just that, at Women Who Empower events hosted by Northeastern University in both countries this week.

by Namrata Kolachalam - contributor and Josie Cox - contributor March 4, 2020

Joseph E. Aoun, president of Northeastern University, left, speaks with Ravi Raheja, group president of the development firm K. Raheja Corp., during the Global Leadership Summit in Mumbai, India. Photo by Sunil Thakkar for Northeastern University

Mumbai provided the perfect setting for Northeastern’s Global Leadership Summit

This Indian cultural and financial hub offered a fitting backdrop for a day of boundary-pushing discussions about innovation, sustainability, and civic participation in the era of artificial intelligence.

by Namrata Kolachalam - contributor March 2, 2020

Wade Macleod, his wife Karly, and daughter, Ava play in the living room of their Port Moody residence near Vancouver. Photo by Andrew Querner for Northeastern University

Cancer interrupted his hockey career. Now he’s back on the ice.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia—Seven years ago, Wade MacLeod was on his way to the National Hockey League. A chance discovery of a brain tumor derailed that dream. But the former Husky standout forward is not done with the sport. Far from it.

by Daina Lawrence - contributor February 24, 2020

The numbers of chinstrap penguins on Elephant Island, Antarctica, are dwindling. Studying them can be difficult, as they prefer living on rocky and elevated areas that can be hard to reach by researchers. Photo courtesy of Yang Liu

Penguins are starving as Antarctica gets warmer. Drones are counting the losses.

Scientists suspect that the population of the chinstrap penguins that inhabit Elephant Island is dwindling. A team that includes two Northeastern doctoral students is seeking to measure the decline using drones and machine learning algorithms.

by Vikrant Shah - contributor February 11, 2020

Divers from the Three Seas program explore a rocky reef in Coiba National Park, Panama. Photo by Tim Briggs for Northeastern University

A close-up look at the mysterious plague sweeping through Caribbean reefs

BOCAS DEL TORO, Panama—Northeastern students are surveying a coral reef off the coast of Panama for signs of stony coral tissue loss disease, which threatens twenty species that comprise the heart of the Caribbean’s coral reefs.

by Tim Briggs - contributor January 14, 2020

Ursula Smartt, a lecturer at NCH at Northeastern in London, on Dec. 4 will be launching the fourth edition of <i>Media & Entertainment Law</i> Photo by Suzanne Plunkett for Northeastern University

A lawyer’s guide to navigating the clickbait era

LONDON—Ursula Smartt, a lecturer at NCH at Northeastern in London, on Dec. 4 will be launching the fourth edition of Media & Entertainment Law, widely considered one of the most comprehensive textbooks on the subject.

by Josie Cox - contributor November 26, 2019

Jessica Slevin, who studies conservation science at Northeastern, carries bamboo sticks, a palm tree, and a banana tree to plant. Photo by Hiroko Tanaka for Northeastern University

When you can’t imagine living in a city again

Jessica Slevin pushes a wheelbarrow full of farming equipment along a muddy jungle trail. She is among a half-dozen Northeastern students doing co-ops at a farm nestled in the mountainous rainforest 25 miles southwest of San Jose.

by Alexander Villegas - contributor October 31, 2019

Northeastern student Chase Bivona smooths out the rough edges of a stringer—the foundation component of a staircase—as part of his structural engineering co-op in Braeside, Australia. Photo by Ying Ang for Northeastern University

It’s always a beautiful day to be a custom staircase builder in Australia

Northeastern student Chase Bivona has traveled to the other side of the world to learn production and management techniques he hopes can take his father’s 35-year-old custom stair building business, Hardwood Design Inc., to the next level.

by Andrew Fenton - contributor October 16, 2019

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