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June 12, 2025
Students reimagine nurse education using immersive tech: "AI-powered training can fill critical gaps"
By Madelaine Millar For Qiwen (Fiona) Xiong, working on Nurse Town has always been personal. “My mother has been a nurse for over 30 years; during the COVID-19 pandemic, she was recognized as a ‘hero nurse’ for her contributions. I’ve...
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June 5, 2025
Shreevidhya Shambanna on choosing to ask, at Amazon and beyond
by Marcelle Santos When Shreevidhya Shambanna, 24, entered the Doppler—Amazon’s office building just north of downtown Seattle—and took the elevator to the 35th floor, she wasn’t just starting her career in tech. She was starting her first day at work,...
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May 30, 2025
The Class of 2025 graduates into a moment of change and opportunity
by Meredith Hutcheson. Photos by Ruby Wallau. On May 18, 2025, a crowd of over 800 gathered in the California Theater in downtown San Jose, CA. Of the 363 students who graduated from the Silicon Valley campus in the 2024–2025...
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May 21, 2025
New Graduate Certificate in AI Applications for Data Mining
Beginning in fall semester 2025, Northeastern in Silicon Valley will offer a new interdisciplinary program designed to help professionals gain an understanding of recent developments in AI technology that is anchored to practical usage. The Graduate Certificate in AI Applications...
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May 7, 2025
How Kewal Gokuldas Brought XR Development to Northeastern in Silicon Valley
by Marcelle Santos Kewal Gokuldas (‘24) was sixteen when he built his first game for a high school programming class. The game, inspired by Dragon Ball Z, was an instant hit with his classmates. “I remember everyone coming together to...
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May 1, 2025
Student researchers win award by following their curiosity to Dinic's algorithm
By Madelaine Millar How can you find the most efficient way to deliver goods through a maze of city streets? How do you accurately describe the flow of information through social media networks? How do you help a cartoon crocodile...
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April 1, 2025
Himalaya Dua's 2nd place NVIDIA hackathon win with a last-minute team
by Marcelle Santos Hours after the Wi-Fi went down at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport, Himalaya Dua sat amid hundreds of animated voices at the only empty table in the hotel conference hall. Although his team of four other...
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March 28, 2025
Silicon Valley Team Feature: Karen Chang Pryor
by Jussara Oliveira Barbosa, MS in Project Management ’25 Karen Chang Pryor is a driving force behind student support and engagement. She serves as the Director of Student Services at Northeastern University Silicon Valley. In this position, she works to create...
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March 25, 2025
This student research team is building Northeastern's own AI assistant: NUGPT
By Madelaine Millar With almost two thousand instructors and almost fifty thousand enrolled students spread across thirteen global campuses, Northeastern University is a very big school with many interconnected websites. With so much information and so many services nested under...
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March 21, 2025
Faculty Feature: Davood Bakhtnia
by Jussara Oliveira Barbosa, MS in Project Management ’25 Davood Bakhtnia, known as David, is a multifaceted leader with a rich background in project, program, portfolio, and product management. With a technical background spanning a decade, he has played a key...
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