by Christine Burgermaster | Sep 23, 2023 | Featured Stories, Faculty Excellence, Research, article
AI Expert Tina Eliassi-Rad is Named Northeastern’s First Aoun Professor Early in Tina Eliassi-Rad’s career, the computer scientist built artificial intelligence algorithms for fun. But as complex systems evolved, she began scrutinizing how this nascent frontier was...
by Christine Burgermaster | Sep 8, 2023 | Student Opportunities, article
Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way—to a Scholarship Peter Polito, BA’65, MS’67, PhD’71, a Triple Husky, faced an uncertain future after high school. From a young age, he had an affinity for math and science, and with the encouragement of his parents and teachers, he...
by Christine Burgermaster | Jul 9, 2023 | Student Opportunities, article
They Began as Professor and Student—and Became Lifelong Friends Georges Melhem, E’84, ME’86, PhD’88, recognizes budding engineers with promise—because early on, he was one himself. In 1980, Melhem was an excellent student with an interest in engineering, but the civil...
by Christine Burgermaster | May 4, 2023 | Student Opportunities, Faculty Excellence, Entrepreneurship, article
‘The opportunity is there.’ This Northeastern Graduate Became an Accomplished Entrepreneur and Philanthropist. George D. Behrakis, P’57, H’98, personifies the Northeastern success story, says Carmen Sceppa, dean of the Bouvé College of Health Sciences. His...
by Christine Burgermaster | Nov 23, 2022 | Communities of Belonging, article
The Harriet Tubman House, a Fixture of Boston’s Black community, Gets a Second Life Cities are places of constant change, but when the Harriet Tubman House at the corner of Massachusetts and Columbus Avenues was demolished, Boston risked losing a critical piece of its...
