Sasha Shenk, who earned her Health Science degree in 2021, is one of 18 graduates to earn a Community Service Leadership award after she volunteered to help Boston high school students improve their writing and explore their creativity. In return, the students...
Lucie Gulino is collaborating with Equal Justice Works, a not-for-profit provider of legal services, to offer a first-of-its-kind clemency and family support project in Boston for people who earn lower incomes who are Black, indigenous, and people of color; and...
Gabrielle Whittle, who recently graduated in mechanical engineering, received an inaugural $10,000 Innovator Award for developing an adjustable sole and removable heel that makes her product wearable as a flat or a high-heeled...
Emily White, co-founder of the #iVote initiative that hosted a record-setting digital concert around Election Day last year, received an inaugural Innovator Award offered by Northeastern’s Women Who Empower. The $10,000 award was especially gratifying because White...
Ibori, a Northeastern graduate, launched Uwana Energy to sell and install rooftop solar panels in her homeland. Her $10,000 Innovator Award from Northeastern’s Women Who Empower will help Ibori’s startup overcome the setbacks of the COVID-19 pandemic, she...
In a span of 10 days, Women Who Empower received more than 150 award applications representing more than a dozen countries and all but one of Northeastern’s colleges. The winners are receiving a total of $100,000 in grants to help fuel 17 business...
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted ongoing disparities in health care, education and the economy for Massachusetts’ rapidly growing Latino community. Northeastern graduate Evelyn Barahona, who earned her international business degree in 1999, heads up a new...
Chong Kim-Wong, the newly appointed vice chancellor and dean of students, has been helping students since 2007, when she first arrived at Northeastern as a residence director. “I want students to just see me as a person that’s here to help and make their experience...
A documentary detailing one Hiroshima survivor’s quest to recognize U.S. prisoners of war killed by the atomic blast in World War II focuses on connection, said the movie’s producers at a Northeastern event honoring Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage...