Students

How do you learn hands-on medical skills during a pandemic?

Clad in masks, face shields, and gloves, a dozen students in Northeastern's physician assistant program begin to pore over each other’s hands, arms, neck, and scalp. Six more students begin the same process without all the protective equipment; their patients are family members, friends, and partners, and their exam spaces are living rooms, bedrooms, and home offices.

by Laura Castañón August 27, 2020

Innovative business ideas come from everyone. These students are making sure everyone gets a chance.

Eliana Berger and Hannah Chaouli are the former and current directors of the Women’s Interdisciplinary Society of Entrepreneurship, where they work to help people from all backgrounds get involved in entrepreneurship, in whichever way is most important to them.

by Kaitlyn Budion August 27, 2020

She was already trying to help Lebanon. Then there was an explosion in Beirut.

Karen Fayad, a Northeastern engineering student, is working with the charity Jobs for Lebanon to raise money for food and reconstruction efforts to help her country recover from the Port of Beirut explosion.

by Ian Thomsen August 13, 2020

He’s reported from around the world. Now he wants to do it in his own neighborhood.

José da Silva, who is studying journalism, has reported on topics ranging from the rising popularity of soccer in Cuba to traditional canoe races in Panama, but now he’s focusing on covering the communities surrounding Northeastern’s Boston campus.

by Kaitlyn Budion August 12, 2020

Can technology reduce racial inequity? Build for Black Lives could help.

Build for Black Lives helps connect people who have technology and design skills with activists, organizers, and Black-owned businesses that need services such as website creation, mobile applications, and digital marketing. The founders are hoping to address racial discrimination in technology by including diverse viewpoints in the development of products.

by Khalida Sarwari August 10, 2020

From penguins to plastic forks, she’s tackling sustainability

As a young teenager, Janet Cheung helped make Northeastern’s finance office run a bit more sustainably. Now an incoming freshman at the university, Cheung will use her passion to study the environment in earnest.

by Kaitlyn Budion August 4, 2020

She wants to restore the public’s confidence in science

In a forthcoming book, Vyshnavi Karra, a doctoral student in the chemical engineering program, explores the intersection of science and government—a relationship that is critically important as the world contends with issues such as the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, and the anti-vaccine movement.

by Khalida Sarwari July 30, 2020

Are your coworkers too close? This device will let you know.

Northeastern students Jignesh Jadhav and Yiqiang Wang are developing what they describe as wearable beacons—small digital devices that help coworkers stay physically distant, and enables contact tracing.

by Kaitlyn Budion July 22, 2020

He adapted to life with low vision. Now he wants to make it easier for others.

Incoming freshman Christopher Suplice has Leber’s hereditary optic neuropathy, a condition that has left him mostly blind. The experience has motivated him to use computer science to create technology for people with visual impairments, like himself.

by Kaitlyn Budion 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