Students

‘We’re the youngest people out there fighting this.’

From hunting down protective gowns to comforting those too weak to speak, Northeastern students Evelyn Goroza and Thomas Cava are becoming quickly initiated into critical care medicine.

by Jenna Pelletier - contributor April 25, 2020

A 10,000-mile journey for microbes

MELBOURNE, Australia—Andrea Unzueta-Martinez, a doctoral candidate at Northeastern’s Marine Science Center, came to the United States to be a dancer, but chose science instead. She spent three months at the Port Stephens Fisheries Institute in Australia raising oyster larvae.

by Andrew Fenton - contributor April 21, 2020

She’s solving global health issues on a local level

Bioengineering student Kerry Eller has studied international law and policy in Geneva, started developing a low-cost wearable pesticide monitor for agricultural workers in Santiago, and taught technicians, technical students, and engineers in Ethiopia critical skills for developing medical devices. She has been named a Truman Scholar.

by Khalida Sarwari April 19, 2020

She’s providing security in the COVID-19 pandemic

Annie Glass is planning a career as a homicide detective. A third-year criminal justice major at Northeastern, Glass knows she will be expected to handle unprecedented, uncomfortable situations, and she is building those skills now.

by Clevis Murray - contributor April 18, 2020

‘You are going to enjoy each and every situation’

VANCOUVER, British Columbia—In a last-moment change of heart, Sanyami Shah traveled from Ahmedabad, India to join the inaugural group of computer science graduate students at Northeastern’s Vancouver campus. She was driven by a larger sense of purpose.

by Ian Thomsen April 17, 2020

From the classroom to the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic

Alyson Dahlberg knew she wanted to be an emergency room nurse—she just didn't expect to find herself in the middle of a pandemic during her final semester at Northeastern.

by Rachael Thatcher - contributor April 16, 2020

This Fulbright scholar wants to make health care more accessible for immigrants and refugees

Northeastern student Maxim Petrovsky has been awarded a Fulbright scholarship, which he will use to teach English in Russia. Petrovsky wants to become a physician who works with immigrant communities in the U.S.

by Khalida Sarwari April 16, 2020

Public health authorities need help responding to COVID-19. Students are answering the call—by picking up the phone.

Northeastern students have joined a newly formed coalition that connects public health students and professionals in Massachusetts with dozens of health departments across the Commonwealth to help them respond to the COVID-19 crisis.

by Khalida Sarwari April 8, 2020

She grew up 15 minutes from the US-Mexico border. It inspired a lifetime of work.

Kathryn Garcia has dedicated her college career to researching issues and volunteering at the U.S.-Mexico border, and this year, she was selected as one of only a few students to receive Northeastern’s Harold D. Hodgkinson Award for her work.

by Molly Callahan April 7, 2020

She went looking for three people to sew surgical masks. She found 3,000.

Health sciences student Hannah Rosenblatt’s family home has become the epicenter of an effort to provide effective home-sewn surgical masks to protect U.S. hospital workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

by Sean Deveney - contributor April 2, 2020