Category: College of Professional Studies

November 8, 2024

Silicon Valley Team Feature: EunHae Lawlor

by Jussara Oliveira Barbosa, MS in Project Management ’25 At Northeastern University's Silicon Valley and Oakland campuses, EunHae Lawlor significantly influences the academic journeys of graduate students in the M.S. Project Management and M.P.S. Analytics programs. As the Academic Advisor for...

November 5, 2024

How Yating Zhuang, MS in Project Management '24, Found Home in the U.S.

by Marcelle Santos Change is never easy, but for Yating Zhuang, a student in the Master of Science in Project Management program at Northeastern in Silicon Valley, moving from China to the United States in 2022 was disorienting. Before the move,...

June 4, 2024

Trupal Chaudhari Thinks You Should Step Out of Your Comfort Zone

by Marcelle Santos Trupal Jeevan Chaudhari was only ten when he chose to go to boarding school two hundred miles from home. There, away from everything he knew, he thrived. He took up yoga and meditation. He received an academic...

April 2, 2024

Everybody Knows Nikshita: Student Spotlight

by Marcelle Santos Towards the end of last year, Nikshita Ranganathan received good news and bad news. The good news was that she had been granted a Professional Development Award to attend the Grace Hopper Celebration, an annual conference for...

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),...

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....

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,...