JET NOIRE, a startup that fuses identity with fashion, began when Mya Brown’s clothes were lost by a shipping company during the COVID-19 pandemic. Brown, a Northeastern international business graduate, began sewing new clothes for herself—and then for...
Aniyah Smith’s career timeline underwent a radical adjustment last year when the MBA student placed second among Northeastern entrepreneurs based on her idea to create inclusive and accessible cosmetics for a diverse population. “I did not expect to be building a...
Khailah Nichole-Robin Griffin realized last year that preparing for and applying to medical school was more difficult and expensive than she had imagined—and that the admission system was tilted against people from unusual backgrounds. She responded to those challenges by creating UnorthoDOCx, a nonprofit organization that provides resources for nontraditional pre-medical students.
Written by Madison Neuner Henry Nasella, ‘77, has had an impressive career in entrepreneurship. In 1988, he became the first president of Staples, seeing it grow from $8 million to over $1 billion in revenue. Then, he was the CEO of Star Markets. Today, he is...
We profile Olowoyeye as the new leader of the Husky Ambassadors and co-president of Afrospectrum, two groups committed to welcoming new and diverse students at Northeastern.
Madison Mailey, DMSB‘18, didn’t try rowing until her junior year of high school. “I was a dancer for 10 years,” she said. “It gave me a pretty good background of working hard.”
What she didn’t know at the time was that not really “fitting in” with the dance world - “I was so tall,” she said - gave her the opportunity to fall in love with rowing, and eventually become an Olympic gold medalist.
Nonnie S. Burnes, a former Trustee of Northeastern and associate justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court, died on Saturday of kidney cancer at age 79. Her life was devoted to her husband, Richard Burnes, and their three children, as well as to the many people...
Rashida Richardson, a 2011 law school graduate who joined the Northeastern faculty as assistant professor of law and political science on July 1, was tapped to join the Office of Science and Technology Policy—a role in which she’ll help to advise President Joe...
“One opportunity we have is to help students find their purpose, their ‘why.’ As the dean, my ‘why’ is to give students a chance to discover and pursue their passions,” says Tatiana Bronich, the new dean of Northeastern’s School of...