Students

He’s preparing the ER for a surge of COVID-19 patients. There’s nowhere else he’d rather be.

Every night at 8 p.m., as many of us are winding down for the evening, Abhishek Mogili pulls a mask over his face and wriggles his hands into purple nitrile gloves. He’s ready to begin another 12-and-a-half-hour shift in the emergency department at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

by Khalida Sarwari March 27, 2020

He wants to find ways to prevent or slow the spread of cancer

Jake Potts, a bioengineering student at Northeastern, has been awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study how DNA repair pathways cause mutations. He’ll attend Sorbonne University in Paris in the fall.

by Khalida Sarwari March 26, 2020

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

Confused about how the gene-editing tool CRISPR works? Try drawing it.

Student doodles gave professor Roger Giese an idea: Would cartoons help his students understand advanced topics in his biochemistry class?

by Kaitlyn Budion March 4, 2020

NASA is going back to the moon. Northeastern University students are designing robots to explore the terrain.

Some parts of the moon never see the light, but they are full of resources that NASA could mine to settle on the lunar surface and venture beyond. The agency selected a team of Northeastern students to be part of the 2020 Big Idea Challenge, in which they will develop robotic systems to help survey the darkest areas of the moon.

by Roberto Molar Candanosa February 21, 2020

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

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

Easy on the eyes. Easier on the feet.

Northeastern students Vidhan Bhaiya and Danny Jooyoung Kim founded Dr. Brinsley, a footwear company for people who have trouble walking because of diabetes, because they found the existing choices on the market “ineffective, unsophisticated, and expensive.”

by Khalida Sarwari January 10, 2020

To fight villains on the internet, turn students into hackers

Northeastern students dominated a cybersecurity competition when they turned to the dark side and became the same bad guys on the internet they are preparing to fight.

by Roberto Molar Candanosa December 11, 2019

This 2020 Marshall Scholar wants to fix the big transportation problems in the US

The scholarship will allow Michael Tormey to study transportation for the next two years in the U.K. He dreams of creating urban systems that will ease congestion, reduce pollution, and save lives.

by Molly Callahan and Ian Thomsen December 9, 2019