Category: Student Spotlight
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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