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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.
University News

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

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by Katya Poltorak
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.
Business

This grad helps runs the Amazon of the medical device world

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by Cesareo Contreras
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.
University News

Space industry co-op helped Northeastern student build confidence

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by Rich McKay
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.
Society & Culture

The student combining theater and psychology to support homeless youth

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by Peter Rubinstein
Crowds of students, blurred by motion, walk along a tree-lined brick path on Northeastern's campus.
University News

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

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by Cyrus Moulton
Someone types on a laptop displaying streaks of colorful, blurred text, evoking the speed and complexity of AI systems processing data.
University News

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

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by Peter Rubinstein
Sophie Gandsas standing outside a glass-walled building, wearing navy scrubs and smiling.
University News

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

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by Cyrus Moulton
President Joseph E. Aoun gestures while speaking from behind a podium to an audience of seated faculty members.
University News

Aoun says university is ‘well positioned’ amid challenges facing higher education, but must continue to innovate

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by Cyrus Moulton
Four people sit in plastic chairs outdoors in a rural part of Uganda.
University News

Co-op finds conversation, commitment and community in Uganda

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by Cyrus Moulton
Pratham Shah wearing a suit poses in front of the JLL logo at a reception desk in an office lobby.
University News

The student refining AI at one of the largest real estate firms

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by Peter Rubinstein
Ayla DiBattista sits a table and works on a laptop. She is wearing a white blouse.
University News

In Serbia, she helped build an AI to give activists worldwide a leg up

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by Tanner Stening
A close-up of a box turtle held in cupped hands, its head extended and legs outstretched, set against grass.
University News

This student toiled in aviaries, barns and pens for his co-op

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by Rich McKay