Diversity News and Experiences
May 02, 2019
A Paradigm of Interdisciplinary Engineering
Atalaya Milan Wilborn is graduating soon, but that is just the beginning of her academic career.
May 01, 2019
ChE Student Wins Global Impact Award for Entrepreneurship
ChE student Vidhan Bhaiya, E’21, and Danny Jooyoung Kim, PharmD’21, won the Global Impact Award at the Schulze Entrepreneurship Challenge. Their business submission was Dr. Brinsely, a footwear manufacturer for diabetics that combine medical performance with chic style. E-Fest is a celebration of entrepreneurship in which 25 student ventures are selected each year to compete, collaborate, […]
Apr 29, 2019
Enabling Engineers Group Builds Prototypes to Improve Lives
The Enabling Engineers student group have designed products such as a bow and arrow for the visually impaired and a one handed guitar to improve the lives of people with physical and cognitive disabilities. ‘We don’t just build something in a vacuum’ Kevin Leiser starts with his eyes closed and his back to the target. […]
Apr 23, 2019
Journey to Medical School
Aanie Phillips, BS Bioengineering 2019, a pre-med bioengineering student with a concentration in cell and tissue engineering, chose her field based on her love of math and science and the possibility of becoming a physician. “In the back of my head, I always knew that I wanted to be a doctor, so I chose bioengineering […]
Feb 26, 2019
Rich Harris Receives 2 NSBE Honors
Assistant Dean Richard Harris was selected as a STEM Advocate 2019 Honoree by the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) Boston and received the NSBE 2019 Golden Torch Award as a Minority Engineering Program Director of the Year for 2018-2019.
Nov 27, 2018
Prof. Koppes at AIChE WIC
The AIChE Women’s Initiative Committee (WIC) hosted a full day symposium of female speakers at AIChE 2018 to highlight the significant contributions of women to the chemical engineering field, including ChE Assistant Professor Abby Koppes who presented on “Engineered Models of the Gut-Brain Axis”.
Oct 22, 2018
A Leader of Tomorrow
More than 1,200 students from 420 universities, with 111 different ethnicities from 80 different countries. Those are the statistics for those who entered the 48th St. Gallen Symposium essay competition. The St. Gallen Symposium essay competition has students send in individual original entrees based on the theme of the upcoming conference, while a panel of […]
Oct 18, 2018
NU’s First Undergraduate Global Health Conference
Bioengineering student Kritika Singh, E’20, is striving to inspire students to care about global health by organizing the first Northeastern University Global Health Initiative conference on October 19-20, 2018, which will include ten interactive workshops and is free and open to all.