Spotlight Stories
Mar 11, 2022
Featured Galante Fellow: Renuka Kannan
Renuka Kannan is a fifth-year student at Northeastern University graduating in May 2022 with a BS in industrial engineering and an MS in engineering management. While on campus, she has […]
Mar 04, 2022
Featured Galante Fellow: Angela Tsuei
Angela Tsuei is a fifth-year honors student at Northeastern University graduating in May 2022 with a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering and a master’s degree in engineering management. When she […]
Dec 07, 2021
Featured Galante Fellow: Heather Gerstley
Heather Gerstley is a fifth-year student at Northeastern University graduating this December with a Bachelor’s Degree in Bioengineering and a Master’s degree in Engineering Management. Gerstley knew that she wanted […]
Dec 06, 2021
Interdisciplinary Meets International
Carrie Tam, E’22, was always interested in buildings. It seemed perfect that she discovered Northeastern’s Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering and Architectural Studies, a combined major of the […]
Dec 02, 2021
Desire for Well-Rounded and Global Experiences Leads to Fulbright Nomination
Some people spend their entire lives living, studying and working in the same city or town. For Rodrigo Blanco Bravo, E’22, bioengineering, this was not an option. “I wanted to […]
Nov 18, 2021
Moderna by the Molecule
Ella Strzegowski, E’23, bioengineering, is spending her co-op working at Moderna on quality control measures to examine the molecules in the messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine solution.
Jun 03, 2021
Co-op Leads to Two Publications, Three Patents
Caitlynn Tov, E’21, bioengineering, conducted research at Brigham and Women’s Hospital on the TEAL Bio face mask while on co-op, leading to her authoring/contributing to two papers and three patents.
May 27, 2021
Resilience Leads to Co-op at Tesla
When the co-op of Jared Covell, E’22, mechanical engineering, was canceled by the pandemic, he ended up working as a design engineer at a dream company for mechanical engineering, Tesla, with the support, mentoring and network of connections of his co-op coordinator. As a project lead on Tesla’s Drive Systems Structures team, Covell modeled components for a dynamometer assembly used to test a new electric motor. He led design reviews among the company’s structures, lubrication, and motor teams — then applied their feedback to optimize his models in the next iteration.