Diversity News and Experiences

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.

Oct 28, 2019
NU Student Chapter of the Society of Women Engineers Wins Gold Mission Award
The Society of Women Engineers student chapter will receive the Gold Mission Award at the annual WE19 Conference. This honor is given to SWE groups that embody the organization’s core values of integrity, inclusivity, mutual support, professional excellence, and trust, and demonstrate continuous improvement in their efforts.

Jul 23, 2019
ChE MS Student Angela Isibor wins the AAUW Scholarship
Chemical Engineering MS student Angela Isibor has won The American Association of University Women (AAUW) scholarship.

Jul 18, 2019
COE Recognized for Diversity
The College of Engineering has been selected as a recipient of the 2019 ASEE Diversity Recognition Program – Bronze Level.

Jul 12, 2019
Creating an App to Help Those Pray
He created an app to help Muslims with their daily prayers Main photo: “Our primary purpose is allowing Muslims to read and recite the Quran correctly without the need of reaching out to an instructor, so we’re automating that process,” says Anas Abou Allaban, who graduated from Northeastern in May. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University […]

Jun 07, 2019
Abd-Alla Receives Society of Women Engineers Boston Scholarship
BS/MS Environmental Engineering student Areeg Abd-Alla, E’22, received a 2019 Society of Women Engineers Boston Chapter Scholarship, an award given to women studying engineering and engineering technology.

May 02, 2019
One to Watch
Carlos Fuentes, BS Mechanical Engineering and Physics 2018, balances a job at Amazon with a startup born of his passion for vintage timepieces For his sixteenth birthday, Carlos Fuentes, E’18, received an unusual gift from a family friend: a broken vintage watch movement. “My dad’s friend knew I was enamored with mechanical stuff,” explains Fuentes. […]

May 02, 2019
A Paradigm of Interdisciplinary Engineering
Atalaya Milan Wilborn is graduating soon, but that is just the beginning of her academic career.