A young woman with long, wavy blonde hair wearing a white cardigan works on a computer.

This student’s co-op in Greece provided lessons in modern slavery

Slavery is often thought of as one of history’s worst chapters. But in many other parts of the world, the practice persists to this day.
Kayla Ruggiero, a Northeastern University student studying political science and international affairs, works on a laptop at a table beside large windows inside a campus building.

A visit to a cow farm led her to the top of Scottish politics

A person on the deck of a large ship lowers a robotic device over the side by a cable, beside an orange life ring on the railing.

How do you clean a giant ship? This student builds robots for the job

Katie Karmelek, smiling and looking off to one side, photographed through a window with reflections of trees and warm lights layered over her face and dark blazer.

This grad helps run the Amazon of the medical device world

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A crowd of students walk between buildings on campus.

Northeastern invests a record $525m in financial aid, welcomes talented class to multiple campuses

The incoming undergraduate class is the largest class welcomed at Northeastern and includes more than 7,200 students across the global university system.
Rhea Dharia works at a laptop through a circular arrangement of warm, glowing lights in the foreground, taken through a window with blinds visible behind her.

Space industry co-op helped Northeastern student build confidence

Northeastern University student’s co-op as a space payload specialist solidified her desire to work in the space industry.
Rachel Oppong standing on a dark stage beside a light bulb, gazing upward, with a typewriter and a coiled orange extension cord among the props around her.

The student combining theater and psychology to support homeless youth

Rachel Oppong said the arts provide a place for Bay Area homeless youth to be seen as more than their circumstances.
Crowds of students, blurred by motion, walk along a tree-lined brick path on Northeastern's campus.

Harvard Business School takes up Northeastern’s case for higher education

Harvard Business School recently published an exhaustive case study on Northeastern University’s 20-year transformation.
Someone types on a laptop displaying streaks of colorful, blurred text, evoking the speed and complexity of AI systems processing data.

Finding the right AI models for specific tasks using LLMs as a ‘judge’

This student used large language models as a “judge” to evaluate customers’ problems with some of the most popular AI models.
Sophie Gandsas standing outside a glass-walled building, wearing navy scrubs and smiling.

Grandfather’s struggle leads student to a co-op studying prion disease

Sophie “Sofi” Gandsas helped coordinate three studies of neurodegenerative prion disease at Massachusetts General Hospital during her co-op.

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