Spotlight Stories
Jul 27, 2022
Alum Evan Kodra Is Driven to Make a Difference
Evan Kodra, PhD’14, interdisciplinary engineering, co-founded risQ, a startup that factors the impacts of climate change and social equity into municipal investment decisions. With its success, he also established a graduate fellowship for future climate-change researchers at Northeastern’s College of Engineering.
Jul 01, 2022
From Co-op Student to Co-op Sponsor—and Cheerleader
David Sequino, E’90, electrical engineering, is proud to say that every employee in the Boston office of his company, INTEGRITY Security Services (ISS), is not only a Northeastern graduate—but almost all were also former co-op students. As co-founder and chief executive officer of ISS, Sequino has been an enthusiastic supporter of Northeastern’s co-op program since the company was created in 2010.
Apr 21, 2022
In the ‘Spirits’ of Entrepreneurship Mechanical Engineering Alumnus Launches Company
In early 2016, childhood best friends Patrick Carey, E’06, mechanical engineering, and Jesse Sommer reunited to plot yet another entrepreneurial venture. Inspired by the fervor of New York State’s budding craft spirits sector—and eager to pay homage to the agrarian community in which they’d been raised—they settled on what has since become the existential mission […]
Feb 01, 2022
Alum Mark Schanfein Can’t Sit Still
Curiosity has taken him around the world, including behind the walls of North Korea’s nuclear program Growing up on Long Island, Mark Schanfein, E’72, mechanical engineering, couldn’t wait for his dad to return from his weekend trips to New York City with a mysterious paper bag. “He’d visit these salvage stores in the city and […]
Nov 09, 2021
Northeastern Prepared Him for Success
Alumnus Jude Arbogast, E’19, civil engineering, explains all the opportunities that Northeastern University provided to prepare him to take on new and exciting challenges.
Oct 18, 2021
Pivoting to Tech Leads to Co-op and Full-Time Job at Facebook
Yuqi Fang, ME’21, information systems, wanted to pivot her career from psychology to information technology. She joined the information systems program at Northeastern’s Silicon Valley campus, and focused in web development and design. One of Fang’s notable endeavors was a Facebook hackathon, where participants build projects using Facebook programs. She did a co-op with Facebook’s privacy team, and is now a full time software engineer there.
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 […]
Sep 21, 2021
Bioengineering Master’s Alumna is Lead Co-Author of Research Paper Published on Cover of Tissue Engineering Part A Journal
While conducting research, Boting Li, ME’19, bioengineering, harvested biomaterials from Assistant Professor Sidi Bencherif’s lab and cell cultures from Assistant Professor Ambika Bajpayee’s lab to create a model to rebuild tissues caused by cartilage defects. While working on this project she developed a more effective protocol to harvest cells from bovine tissue. Her work to her becoming the lead co-author on a paper that was published in the June 2021 issue of Tissue Engineering Part A and featured on its cover.