Diversity News and Experiences
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Jun 11, 2020
Her Engineering Degree Was the Launchpad for a Wide-Ranging Career
Michele Lezama, E’88, arrived at Northeastern on a scholarship for Black engineering students and now is President and CEO of the organization that made her education possible.
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Jun 11, 2020
Distinctive Excellence: Our 2020 Rhodes Scholar
Kritika Singh, E’20, receives Rhodes Scholar, NIH OxCam Scholar, and Harold D. Hodgkinson Achievement Award.
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Jun 10, 2020
New Partnership with the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering
A new partnership between Northeastern University and the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME) has created scholarship opportunities for highly talented undergraduate engineering students from historically underrepresented populations.
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May 28, 2020
Industrial Engineering Grad Balances STEM with Pro Cheerleading
Main Photo: Nia Jones, E’20, industrial engineering, part of the first cohort of S-POWER Scholars, achieved the Huntington 100 and will be going to graduate school at the University of California- Berkeley and conducting research as part of the Energy Resources Group. Whoever said, “You can’t do it all,” never met recent Industrial Engineering graduate […]
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Apr 24, 2020
BESS Wins Medium Chapter of the Year Award
Northeastern’s Black Engineering Student Society (BESS) was selected to receive the 2019-2020 National Society of Black Engineers Medium Chapter of the Year award.
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Apr 17, 2020
ChE Student Wins GEM Fellowship to Fund Doctoral Studies
ChE student Sofia Catalina, E’20, was awarded the GEM Fellowship for her research in renewable energy which will fund her doctoral studies.
Jan 30, 2020
Aoun Global Experience Scholars
Environmental engineering student Emily Eastman (E’21) and BS/MS industrial engineering student Nwaobiala Ajegwu (E’21) were two out of five selected to be inaugural recipients of the Joseph E. and Zeina Aoun Global Experience Scholarship, which supports campus community leaders participating in global experiences.
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Nov 04, 2019
Stojanovic Awarded IEEE WICE Outstanding Achievement Award
ECE Professor Milica Stojanovic was awarded the 2019 IEEE Women in Communications Engineering (WICE) Outstanding Achievement Award for having done outstanding technical work in the broad field of communications engineering, and achieved a high degree of visibility in the field.