Diversity News and Experiences

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Apr 01, 2022

Alums Create Skate Collective for All Levels of Experience

Engineering alums Claire Lee, E’21, bioengineering, and Rayven Tate, E’21, mechanical engineering, founded LonelyBones Skate Collective as a diverse group of skaters of all experience levels. LonelyBones Skate Collective is shredding up gender stereotypes­­–and skate parks–on the East Coast Main photo: Claire Lee, left, and Rayven Tate, right, founded the LonelyBones Skate Collective, a diverse […]

Bioengineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Feb 08, 2022

Computer PhD Alum to Lead SAIL

Alumnus and Draper GEM Fellow Will Tomlinson, PhD’18, Computer Engineering, is named director of the Software and Application Innovation Lab (SAIL) at Boston University. Related News: Outstanding Graduate Student Award in Community Service Creating a Safer Way to Transmit Data Overcoming the Odds

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Jan 19, 2022

Henry Luce Foundation Awards Prestigious Clare Boothe Luce Graduate Fellowships To Northeastern University

Northeastern University is honored to be the recipient of an award from the Clare Boothe Luce Program for Women in STEM to support fellowships for women pursuing a Ph.D. in Mechanical, Electrical, Computer Engineering or Physics. Since its first grants in 1989, the Clare Boothe Luce (CBL) Program for Women in STEM has become the […]

Lucas Landherr

Nov 12, 2021

Landherr Serves as Co-programming Chair for National AIChE Conference

ChE Teaching Professor and Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies Lucas Landherr served as the Co-Programming Chair for the Annual Meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers this week in Boston.  Working to coordinate events over the last year and a half, Landherr helped to arrange the plenary talks delivered in conjunction with the meeting’s […]

Chemical Engineering

John Bleakney

Nov 01, 2021

Service-Learning Project Focuses on Healthy Cultural Food Options Near Boston School

Students in a COE co-op course, led by John Bleakney, associate co-op coordinator, worked on a service learning project, the Cultural Nutrition Program, with the Afrimerican Culture Initiative, to explore healthy ethnic food options near Boston Preparatory School. Boston City Councilor Richard Arroyo presented the Afrimerican Culture Initiative with an official resolution commending the group’s ‘design and build’ of antiracist projects and initiatives.

Miriam Morales

Oct 12, 2021

Coffee with a Purpose

Industrial engineering alumna Miriam Morales started the coffee shop Recreo in Boston as a true farm-to-cup experience that gives back to the community that she came from. How Recreo brings beans from Nicaragua and brews coffee with a purpose Miriam Morales, a native of Nicaragua and a Northeastern graduate in industrial engineering, started Recreo, a […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Oct 01, 2021

Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month

Featuring Engineers and Scientists Source: Science Buddies by Amy Cowen In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, we highlight a sampling of Hispanic and Latinx scientists and engineers who made (and are making) important contributions to science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). Luis Alvarez, physicist was a physicist whose research included particle physics, radar, and nuclear […]

Zachary Walker-Liang outside with his drone

Sep 03, 2021

Undergraduate Student’s Research Focuses on Developing Software for Drones to Enforce COVID Guidelines

UPLIFT Scholar Zachary Walker-Liang, E’25, computer engineering and computer science, conducted research as a first-year student to enable a drone to survey an area and see if people are following social distancing guidelines and wearing a mask or not and report the data. After developing the software he implemented it onto the drone.

Electrical & Computer Engineering