Kritika Singh

‘I’m the boss. If I’m not going to be bossy, who will?’

Being at the top of male-dominated industries requires a certain amount of rabble-rousing, a certain type of guts. Indeed, women in India and the United Kingdom said just that, at Women Who Empower events hosted by Northeastern University in both countries this week.

• by Namrata Kolachalam - contributor and Josie Cox - contributor   March 4, 2020

Global population, climate, and technology are changing human health. Here’s what we can do about it.

“We see how much the world is changing,” Northeastern student and 2020 Rhodes Scholar Kritika Singh told an audience of students, researchers, clinicians, and industry experts on Friday. “People, planet, and technology need to change along with it in order to have a healthier and safer world.”

• by Laura Castañón   February 9, 2020

Northeastern University bioengineering student is named Rhodes Scholar

Kritika Singh has been selected for a Rhodes Scholarship to pursue a doctorate in biomedical sciences at Oxford University. Singh, who studies bioengineering and chemistry at Northeastern, has dedicated herself to researching treatments and educating at-risk communities about diseases, such as malaria, that have cures but still kill hundreds of thousands of people each year.

• by Laura Castañón and Emily Arntsen   November 24, 2019

She wants to build a malaria-free world

In parallel with her research on the malaria epidemic, Kritika Singh, a Northeastern student who has been awarded the prestigious Truman Scholarship, directs Malaria Free World, a nonprofit she founded that engages in peer-to-peer education, fundraising, and political lobbying.

• by Khalida Sarwari   April 24, 2019

TEDx comes to Northeastern

An assistant professor of marketing, a bioengineering student researcher, and a director of a local college mentoring organization are among the 10 speakers who have been invited to share their ideas with a Northeastern audience at the university’s second annual TEDxNortheasternU event on Saturday.

• by Khalida Sarwari   March 20, 2019

The only thing this student cares about more than solving deadly pandemics is getting other people to care

As a high school student, Kritika Singh founded a nonprofit to promote malaria research and education. Now, Singh, a bioengineering major at Northeastern, is organizing a two-day conference on the Boston campus to inspire more students to care about the health of people around the world.

• by Emily Arntsen   October 18, 2018