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Is contact tracing enough to slow the spread of COVID-19?

As schools, businesses, and organizations prepare to reopen, efforts to trace contacts and provide COVID-19 testing will need to be amplified to prevent a new wave of infections, said a panel of current and former Northeastern public health students who are working as contact tracers.

by Khalida Sarwari July 24, 2020

They want to make it easier for all students to learn online

A group of international students at Northeastern are developing a mobile application targeted at students who can’t afford consistent access to the internet or who live in parts of the world with low internet penetration.

by Khalida Sarwari July 23, 2020

They’re helping small businesses reopen responsibly

The law students at Northeastern’s Community Business Clinic are helping small business owners in disadvantaged communities navigate the complex legal and regulatory policies to operate responsibly during the COVID-19 pandemic.

by Khalida Sarwari July 21, 2020

How one restaurateur is surviving the pandemic

Running a restaurant of her own—much less three—isn’t where Zareen Khan thought she’d end up after graduating from Northeastern with a degree in economics. Now she is relying on her ingenuity and creativity to adapt to the unexpected challenges of the current crisis.

by Khalida Sarwari July 21, 2020

She’s helping women and minorities get their businesses off the ground

A startup co-founded by Northeastern student Eliana Berger is offering an eight-week program this summer to help connect diverse founders with veteran entrepreneurs and investors.

by Khalida Sarwari July 10, 2020

New survey shows ‘systematic decline’ in domestic approval for US leaders

Amid a record-breaking increase in new cases of SARS-CoV-2, which prompted some states to pause reopening plans, a new survey by Northeastern and other researchers shows that public approval of U.S. governors as well as President Donald Trump has dropped over the last couple of months.

by Khalida Sarwari July 9, 2020

We know companies are collecting and sharing our data. Is there anything we can do about it?

Northeastern researchers David Choffnes, Woodrow Hartzog, and Alan Mislove are teaming up on a five-year project that is anticipated to produce new technologies that safeguard personal data collected over the internet, as well as inform policy development around personal data privacy.

by Khalida Sarwari July 1, 2020

‘The world has never had to vaccinate the entire population’

The likelihood of developing a vaccine by January for SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, is high, but complex manufacturing processes could hinder efforts to immunize every person on the planet in a short time, Christophe Weber, president and chief executive of Takeda Pharmaceuticals, told Joseph E. Aoun, president of Northeastern.

by Khalida Sarwari June 27, 2020

Black people are underrepresented in medical research. She wants to change that.

For as long as Shellaina Gordon can remember, her understanding of ‘research’ has conjured images of white laboratory coats and test tubes. But she never saw anyone who looked like her. Gordon, a biochemistry student at Northeastern, has won a Goldwater Scholarship to support her pursuit of a career in medicine and science.

by Khalida Sarwari June 24, 2020

A new way to keep track of all those job applications

Harmandeep Sidhu was having trouble keeping track of his numerous co-op and internship applications. So, the Northeastern student built an app to do it for him.

by Khalida Sarwari June 23, 2020

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