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Four roommates. Four co-ops. Four job offers.
At Northeastern, an impressive 50 percent of graduates receive a job offer from a previous co-op employer. But in one Boston apartment, that number is a perfect 100 percent.
May 13, 2015
Meet the graduates: David Barra
David Barra, S’15, is a natural-born leader and an insatiable learner, a selfless humanitarian, and a member of Northeastern’s “Huntington 100.”
May 07, 2015
Undergraduate Student Honored with Prestigious Co-op Award
Undergraduate Mariah Livernois is moving on to life's next chapter, but not before capturing one of Northeastern's top awards for co-op students
May 05, 2015
Update: Beekeeping co-op student helps pen book
Noah Wilson-Rich and co-op student Kelly Allin, whom we first met last spring in an article in Northeastern Magazine, are celebrating publishing their book, "The Bee: A Natural History."
April 16, 2015
Student dives in for Caribbean fish
Visit the New England Aquarium and you may see a fish caught by Northeastern student Alfred Kyrollos, who was part of a biannual fish collecting expedition in the Bahamas in October.
November 24, 2014
New grant supports co-ops in cancer nanomedicine
With support from the National Institutes of Health's National Cancer Institute, Northeastern University will partner with the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center to provide co-op experiences to undergraduate students, who will receive training to study and conduct cancer nanomedicine research.
August 19, 2014
$1.15M grant awarded to new co-op program in cancer nanomedicine
A $1.15 million grant titled “CaNCURE: Cancer Nanomedicine Co-ops for Undergraduate Research Experiences” has been funded by the National Cancer Institute and the National Institutes of Health.
August 06, 2014
Next stop: space
Physics and mechanical engineering major Rachael Tompa wants to be an astronaut. She chose Northeastern because of its co-op program which led to her experiential learning opportunity at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. Her next stop? Probably the International Space Station.
May 01, 2014
Animals, advertising, and entrepreneurship—it’s co-op on camera
Alexander Rickert, a biology major, won first place in the 2014 Coolest Co-op Video contest.
February 26, 2014
Students find life calling through co-op
Nearly two-dozen students shared their co-op experiences with their peers at the College of Science Spring Co-op Expo on Friday in the Raytheon Amphitheater.
February 11, 2014
Interdisciplinary investigation
Rising senior Kaitlyn Duffy has explored a range of science and security-related topics.
June 17, 2013
Unique degree program fills void in biotech industry
Northeastern’s Professional Science Master’s program in Biotechnology features a unique approach to graduate education.
June 04, 2013
Co-op in African classroom transforms student’s career outlook
Ever since a high school trip to Zambia to repair dormitories, Danielle Fontaine has been searching for a chance to return to Africa.
April 12, 2013
In Germany, fifth-year student finds science and self
Northeastern fifth-year student Dessislava Bogoeva was born in Bulgaria and moved to the United States at age 10. Now she feels like she can call Germany her third home after taking advantage of several dynamic experiential learning opportunities in the western European nation.
December 11, 2012