Breathe and Release: Maalavika Manjunatha Brings a Lifetime of Yoga to Campus photo

March 7, 2024

Breathe and Release: Maalavika Manjunatha Brings a Lifetime of Yoga to Campus

by Marcelle Santos Maalavika Manjunatha was only twelve years old when she found herself surrounded by strangers, struggling to hold a tree pose. She didn’t know whether to try to keep up with the chanting or the Asanas (yoga poses),...

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Networking on the Green: Bay Area Golf Club Builds Career Connections photo

February 28, 2024

Networking on the Green: Bay Area Golf Club Builds Career Connections

Align students Aaron Chen and Gio Ong started a golf club to help Northeastern Silicon Valley campus students network by Marcelle Santos   One of the first things Aaron Chen was invited to do when he arrived in the Bay...

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Caroline Simard Appointed Regional Dean of Silicon Valley Campus photo

February 12, 2024

Caroline Simard Appointed Regional Dean of Silicon Valley Campus

On February 12, 2024, the Silicon Valley campus of Northeastern University welcomes Caroline Simard to the role of Regional Dean. Dr. Simard brings an outstanding portfolio of academic and non-profit leadership experience to the role, as well as significant tech...

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Richard Yue’s Quest to Advance Machine Translation photo

February 5, 2024

Richard Yue's Quest to Advance Machine Translation

The Align student developed a system that’s 36% better at translating acronyms than Google Translate By Marcelle Santos | Photo by Adam Glanzman for Northeastern Richard Yue compares his work as a researcher in the fields of natural language processing...

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How Hackathons Helped Raj Sudharshan Level Up His Skills photo

January 11, 2024

How Hackathons Helped Raj Sudharshan Level Up His Skills

by Marcelle Santos When Raj Sudharshan, 26, entered the Master of Science in Information Systems — Bridge, a technical program at Northeastern University for students without a computer science background, he was impressed by some of his classmates’ skills. “I...

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Student Spotlight: Purvish Thakkar is Reaching New Heights photo

December 14, 2023

Student Spotlight: Purvish Thakkar is Reaching New Heights

by Marcelle Santos Purvish Thakkar is beaming as he talks about everything he’s learning, all the people he’s meeting, the events he’s participating in, and the opportunities he’s tapping into during his time in the MS in Project Management program....

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Student Spotlight: Isha Thakkar on Pursuing an MS in Project Management photo

November 20, 2023

Student Spotlight: Isha Thakkar on Pursuing an MS in Project Management

  Profile by Marcelle Santos | Header photo by Ruby Wallau When Isha Thakkar tells people that she’s pursuing a Master’s in Project Management, the first thing they tell her is that they didn’t know one existed. Isha didn’t know,...

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Allen Sebastian on the Magic of Bringing Curious People Together photo

August 18, 2023

Allen Sebastian on the Magic of Bringing Curious People Together

by Marcelle Santos Allen Sebastian was a few minutes late for our meeting. He got held up by a call with a recruiter at Nvidia, where he interned last summer. She wanted to know if he'd be willing to come...

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Kristine Umeh on Doing It All photo

July 26, 2023

Kristine Umeh on Doing It All

by Marcelle Santos Kristine Umeh (Khoury College of Computer Sciences '23) may be a software engineer now, but that’s not going to stop her from playing music or breaking into Nollywood. “I have multiple interests, and I don’t feel like...

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Armen’s Turn from Classical Pianist to Software Developer photo

June 12, 2023

Armen's Turn from Classical Pianist to Software Developer

by Marcelle Santos The videos you find of Armen Sarkisian on YouTube start with him walking onstage toward a piano, wearing a suit and tie. Before he sits down, he bows to the audience, who applauds and then listens in...

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