Students

Northeastern students Eva Kuruvilla, Debby Nguyen, Sohum Sheth and Sophia Tan work on a laptop on their Snapchat-like nutrition app for senior citizens, called EatRight.

They designed a Snapchat-like nutrition app with their grandparents’ diet in mind

With their grandparents’ health in mind, a team of Northeastern students issued a challenge to undergraduates across the city to come up with innovations to improve geriatric nutrition. Teams of students rose to the challenge, proposing solutions that harnessed the telehealth revolution.

by Eva Botkin-Kowacki May 10, 2021

These students have inspiring stories to share at Commencement

Graduating students Nathan Hostert, Neha Jain, Gagan Dep Prabhu, and Muhammad Fitrah Pratama Teng will explore their Northeastern experiences while speaking at Commencement ceremonies this weekend at Fenway Park.

by Ian Thomsen May 5, 2021

Megan Carter and Sammy Shupe stand outside their co-op stations.

These athletes pursue championships while on co-op

Megan Carter, a sophomore who maintains a 4.0 grade point average in biology, was on co-op at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston while striving for a national title in women’s ice hockey. Here’s how she and other student-athletes learn to balance sports, academics, and co-op.

by Ian Thomsen April 27, 2021

Mechanical engineering major Amanda Vasconcelos considers herself “one of the lucky people” to have always known what career she wanted. Now, she’s building animatronic toys as a co-op at toy-maker Hasbro. Photo by Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University

She deconstructed robotic toys as a kid. Now she builds them for Hasbro.

Amanda Vasconcelos considers herself “one of the lucky people” to have always known she wanted to be an engineer. Now, she’s building animatronic toys as a co-op at the multinational toy-making company Hasbro.

by Eva Botkin-Kowacki April 27, 2021

Left to right, 2021 Goldwater scholars Cameron Young, Sabrina Bond, and Spencer Jacobs-Skolik. Photos by Matthew Modoono and Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University

Goldwater Scholarships go to 3 undergrads immersed in promising science

Three Northeastern students—Sabrina Bond, Spencer Lake Jacobs-Skolik, and Cameron Young—have been selected from a pool of more than 1,200 nominees to receive the prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship. This national, merit-based academic award is given to undergraduate sophomores and juniors who plan to pursue research careers in natural sciences, engineering, and mathematics.

by Allie Nicodemo - contributor April 20, 2021

Take a break with a yoga flow

Join third year student Krissy Kilgallen, who is pursuing a minor in mindfulness, in a 10-minute yoga flow to "ground and reconnect with your body…

by Cam Sleeper April 16, 2021

A bottle of spring water inspired this Fulbright scholar to study advanced farming in Iceland

En route to Reykjavik eight years ago, Tyler Gogal, a mechanical engineering student, received a bottle of pure Icelandic spring water. He still has that bottle today—a symbol of his future academic career in water resource engineering at the University of Iceland thanks to the Fulbright Open Study/Research Award.

by Emily Arntsen - contributor and April 14, 2021

Millions of dollars in cosmetics were stranded on the ship stuck in the Suez Canal. This Northeastern co-op stepped in.

On co-op at L’Oréal, Kristine Aleksandrovica relies on her positive mindset to help her through stressful moments, such as the recent grounding of a cargo ship in the Suez Canal that was carrying millions of dollars worth of cosmetics. The business major’s supply chain expertise and make-it-happen attitude kicked in.

by Peter Ramjug April 13, 2021

Portrait of Kerry Eller, Connor Holmes, and Abigale Purvis.

3 ways to create socially conscious academic careers

Kerry Eller, Abigale Purvis, and Connor Holmes receive the Harold D. Hodgkinson Award, one of Northeastern’s highest awards for academics and experiential performance, for their dedication to improving health systems and creating socially responsible businesses.

by Emily Arntsen April 9, 2021

Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

A global co-op at Toyota taught him the value of ‘kaizen’

Jaime Bensadon, a third-year business student with a dive-right-in approach to work projects, learned to slow down and think ahead. A Belgium-based co-op at Toyota, the world’s top carmaker, introduced him to the Japanese continuous self-improvement philosophy of kaizen. “If I move too fast in the beginning, I’ll waste a lot of time later fixing the errors,” he says.

by Peter Ramjug April 9, 2021