Articles by Marcelle Santos

Marcelle Santos is a writer, translator, and interpreter in Portuguese and English. She has a degree in Communications and a postgraduate diploma in Conference Interpreting. Born in Brazil and raised in the US, she now lives in Rio de Janeiro.

Campus Life
January 20, 2026

Students share their tips for work/life balance in the new year

Coming back to campus in January means reuniting with friends, making new ones, and having new experiences. But the excitement about the semester ahead is...

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Alumni
October 29, 2025

Why Jussara Barbosa Does Everything Wholeheartedly

Northeastern graduate (‘25) Jussara Barbosa's first assignment as a Student Ambassador in the Office of the Dean was to compile information from all of Northeastern's...

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Alumni
August 28, 2025

The grad school experience that made Preeti Jain feel complete

When Preeti Jain (‘25) arrived at Northeastern, she brought a decade of experience spanning consumer goods and tech. She began her career as a key...

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Experiential Learning
June 5, 2025

Shreevidhya Shambanna on choosing to ask, at Amazon and beyond

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...

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Alumni
May 7, 2025

How Kewal Gokuldas Brought XR Development to Northeastern in Silicon Valley

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...

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Experiential Learning
April 1, 2025

Himalaya Dua’s 2nd place NVIDIA hackathon win with a last-minute team

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...

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Experiential Learning
February 6, 2025

Fiona Xiong’s ‘Ordinary’ Guide to an Extraordinary Life

Qiwen (Fiona) Xiong’s dream is to work with  the brightest minds in tech to solve the world’s biggest problems—and it isn’t as far-fetched as it...

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College of Professional Studies
January 28, 2025

Challenge Accepted: Maalavika Manjunatha’s Winning Path to Adobe MAX

Maalavika Manjunatha’s Instagram got a glow up during the summer. She began posting more frequently, and the technical quality of her content improved.  What inspired...

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Bay Area
January 9, 2025

“AI for Good” Hackathons Inspire Students Over Summer Break

When Computer Science Master’s students Aaron (Chieh-Han) Chen, Amy (Hsin-Yao) Huang, Richard (Xinrui) Yi, and Songting Yang went looking for a hackathon they could participate...

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