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May 02, 2013

Family’s health scare helps student find calling

When he was just 7 years old, grad­u­ating senior Kendall Sanderson’s mother was diag­nosed with breast cancer. The tumor needed to be removed with emer­gency surgery, according to her son, […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Apr 26, 2013

Best Season Ever!!

The Northeastern Mini Baja team took 2nd place in the endurance test and 3rd place overall out of the 100 teams that competed at the BAJA SAE Tennessee competition resulting […]

Apr 24, 2013

Brassitos Wins NASA Fellowship

Mechanics MS student Elias Brassitos is the recipient of a prestigious NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship (NSTRF) to contribute innovative new space technologies for our Nation’s science, exploration and economic […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Apr 17, 2013

Ankle rehab, re-​​engineered

Ten months ago, Paul Douçot began con­tem­plating his tran­si­tion from under­grad­uate mechan­ical engi­neering studies to a grad­uate pro­gram in phys­ical therapy. “I didn’t want to abandon my engi­neering back­ground,” he said. […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Apr 01, 2013

NUTRONS off to World Championships

The NUTRONS, NU’s FIRST Robotics team, won the 2013 Boston Regional Competition and will compete at the World Championship later this month in St. Louis. View the press release here. […]

Mar 28, 2013

Senior Receives High Honor

Electrical and Computer Engineering senior Fernando Quivira is a recipient of the Harold Hodgkinson Award in recognition of scholastic achievement, leadership, coop, and service in voluntary organizations and activities. This is […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Mar 19, 2013

Grad Wins Peebles Award

Jiayi Shi, a MIE PhD graduate student, won the Peebles Student Award runner-up at the Adhesion Society Annual Meeting in Daytona Beach held on March 3-6, 2013. Her oral presentation of her paper entitled […]

Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Mar 05, 2013

Andrew Childs Wins Compass Award

CEE BS/MS student, Andrew Childs, will receive one of nine 2013 Compass Awards which is given to the NU seniors whom show the most leadership, volunteerism, academic integrity, and commitment to Northeastern.

Civil & Environmental Engineering