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Can infrastructure and tourism endure triple-digit temperatures, extreme weather during ‘danger season’?

“We’re going to keep breaking records.” In a world where Londoners bake with no AC and floods close a national park, what do we need to pull us through a summer of heat waves, droughts, heavy rains and wildfires?

by Cynthia McCormick Hibbert July 21, 2022

Jared Covell and Jake Covell, both who study mechanical engineering, pose for a portrait.

Twin engineers from Northeastern land jobs at Elon Musk companies

Jared Covell is working with Tesla and his identical twin, Jake, soon will be with SpaceX. Both graduated last month from a dual bachelor’s and master’s program in mechanical engineering—and did so with 4.0 grade point averages, which they attribute to the healthy competition that exists between them.

by Ian Thomsen June 13, 2022

Northeastern Students in Chile during a Dialogue of Civilizations program

Students hunt for bacteria—and amazing photos—in Chilean desert

This summer, a group of Northeastern students explored Chile’s Atacama Desert on scales large and small—from photographing the picturesque landscapes, to searching for tiny bacteria to aid the discovery of new antibiotics—as part of a pioneering Dialogue of Civilizations program.

by Greg St. Martin August 28, 2017

Journalism students on a Dialogue of Civilization this summer. Photo courtesy of Mike Beaudet.

Students report from ‘eye-opening and heart-filling’ dialogue in Greece

This summer, a group of 18 journalism students became an international press corps, reporting from Greece on the country’s economic disaster, the Syrian refugee crisis, and everything in between.

by Molly Callahan July 11, 2017

Dec. 5, 2016 - BOSTON, MA. - Madeline Seibert, SSH'17, poses for a portrait at Northeastern University on Dec. 5, 2016. Seibert received the Schwarzman Scholarship, which will allow her to do a one-year master's program at a university in China. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

Northeastern senior named Schwarzman Scholar

In her senior year at Northeastern Madeline Seibert did a co-op in China, where she led an independent study documenting food losses and waste through Chinese supply chains. Now, with the support of her Schwarzman Scholarship, Seibert will continue this work through a yearlong master’s program at the Tsinghua University in Beijing.

by Greg St. Martin December 6, 2016

10/27/16 - BOSTON, MA. - Students, faculty and staff attend the GEO Dialogue of Civilizations Fair on Oct. 27, 2016. Photo by Adam Glanzman/Northeastern University

Students, faculty praise global experience at Dialogue of Civilizations Fair

“The most amazing thing I have ever done.” That’s how senior Christa Blomquist described her Dialogue of Civilizations program in Iceland. At Thursday’s annual dialogue fair, she was among the students and faculty who extolled the virtues of living, working, and studying in an unfamiliar country.

by Jason Kornwitz October 28, 2016

04/122/16 - BOSTON, MA. - Esther Laaninen, SSHÕ16 posses for a portrait on April 22, 2016. Photo by Adam Glanzman/Northeastern University

With Fulbright, Northeastern student wants to fuse education and violence prevention

Graduating senior Esther Laaninen has received a Fulbright fellowship to teach English in Colombia. She says her global experiences and teaching opportunities in communities around the world have prepared her well.

by Greg St. Martin May 4, 2016

11/01/15 - BOSTON, MA. - Anna Butler, SSH'14, Founder of Modzi a nonprofit based in Zambia that works with orphaned and vulnerable youths, poses for a portrait outside the Curry Student Center at Northeastern University on Monday Nov. 2, 2015. The organization mentors children from impoverished backgrounds and facilitate their access to education. Staff Photo: Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

Alumna’s startup brings educational opportunities to at-risk youth in Zambia

Social entrepreneur Anna Butler’s inspiration to found modzi began while on a Dialogue of Civilizations program in Zambia and continued during a self-developed co-op there.

by Greg St. Martin November 18, 2015

The impact of climate change beyond the weather

On a Dialogue of Civilizations program to India this summer, Northeastern students saw firsthand how the nation of more than 1.2 billion people is preparing for climate change.

by Joe O'Connell July 17, 2015

Eminent historian talks Israel’s founding father

Israel Prize winner Anita Shapira explored the life and political career of David Ben-Gurion in a keynote address inaugurating the new Israel Studies Lecture series.

by Greg St. Martin January 27, 2015

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