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Northeastern President Joseph E. Aoun recognizes volunteers during the Network for Life event in the East Village. Photo by Ruby Wallau/Northeastern University

They Broke Barriers, Built Companies, and Became Role Models

Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Northeastern honored alumni Carole Shapazian and James Waters, both of whom earned their chemistry degrees at the College of Science, with the prestigious Pioneer Award at Networked for Life.

Northeastern alumna Jesse Greif applies the skills he learned as a psychology major at Northeastern to his work at an innovative AI-based Wall Street startup.

Jesse Greif, executive at OneChronos Markets. Photo courtesy of Jesse Greif

AI’s Next Frontier: Stock Trading

Psychology

Jesse Greif earned his B.S. in psychology at Northeastern. He now is an executive on Wall Street at OneChronos Markets, a new Alternative Trading System that uses AI and Machine Learning to facilitate stock trading.

Agnes Rafalko, Chief Scientific Officer at Glycomine

Small Pharma: Inside the World of Orphan Diseases, with Alumna Agnes Rafalko

Biology, Biotechnology

Agnes Rafalko got her PhD in proteomics and nanomedicine at Northeastern. She now works as the Chief Scientific Officer of Glycomine, a startup she herself founded that works on drugs for orphan diseases.

Divya Bharat Parikh is a Northeastern graduate student studying biotechnology.

MS Biotech Student Divya Parikh Honored as 2019 Forbes Under 30 Scholar

Biotechnology

Divya Bharat Parikh, a Northeastern student working towards her MS in Biotechnology, was honored as a Forbes Under 30 Scholar at the 2019 Forbes Under 30 Summit.

Undergraduate Clinical Psychology" detailing Samantha's experience learning group therapy methods as a teaching assistant for an undergraduate seminar.

Northeastern student Samantha Goldman and professor William Sharp co-authored a paper titled “Into the Fire: Using Process to Teach Undergraduate Clinical Psychology” detailing Samantha’s experience learning group therapy methods as a teaching assistant for an undergraduate seminar.

Don’t Go Wasting Your Emotion: Using Group Therapy to Teach

Psychology

Samantha Goldman's experience leading group therapy taught her more than any textbook ever could. It also lead to her co-authoring a paper in the Spring 2019 volume of the Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society Journal.

Alexandra Doudera, second from the right, founded Saltwater Classroom, a nonprofit that teaches middle school students around the world about the importance of protecting our oceans. Photo courtesy of Alexandra Doudera.

Our Oceans Are in Trouble. She’s Teaching the next Generation of Scientists to Help.

Marine and Environmental Sciences

Northeastern alum Alexandra Doudera got inspiration for her senior capstone project while studying abroad in Chile. That capstone was the catalyst for Saltwater Classroom.

05/8/19 – BOSTON, MA. – Northeastern’s Mars Rover Team has been designing, building, and testing a prototype mars rover for the University Rover Challenge sponsored by the Mars Society. The team works on the rover in Richards Hall on May 8, 2019. Photo by Adam Glanzman/Northeastern University

They Know What Astronauts Are Going to Need Once We Put Them On Mars

Physics

Two projects by Northeastern students, designed to help astronauts Mars, will be on display at the Museum of Science this weekend. One group of students has built a drill to extract water from beneath the planet’s surface. The other group built a rover to accompany and assist astronauts as they work.

Northeastern graduates Francis Nimick, left, and Amanda Stroiney, right, work at the upstart company Outcomes4Me, where they’re developing a mobile app that delivers personalized treatment information to people with breast cancer. Stroiney says that she wouldn’t be working at Outcomes4Me, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, if not for the opportunity to do co-op at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute as part of the university’s CaNCURE program. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

The Program That’s Training the Students who could Transform Cancer Treatment

Behavioral Neuroscience, Biochemistry, Biology, Biotechnology

Northeastern graduates work at the upstart company Outcomes4Me, where they’re developing a mobile app that delivers personalized treatment information to people with breast cancer.

Adorno Earns GEM Fellowship for Biomedical Engineering PhD

Behavioral Neuroscience, Biology

Jonathan Adorno COS’19 came to Northeastern as a Torch Scholar, thinking he wanted to be a doctor. Now that he is preparing to graduate, he still wants to spend his career doing work that helps people with diseases such as cancer—but in the research laboratory.

Emily Batt, speaking at the Productized conference in Lisbon, 2017. Photo courtesy of Emily Batt.

Alumni Profile: Emily Batt, BS in Physics

Physics

Emily Batt graduated Northeastern's College of Science in 2012 with a degree in physics. Following college, Emily worked for Fikst, an engineering consultancy, and then KAYAK, as a product manager. She then returned to school, as a member of the new MS/MBA program at Harvard University. This summer, she will be interning for Google, joining the product management team in the Bay Area.

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