We are pleased to announce the recipients of the Graduate Dissertation Completion Fellowship. Congratulations to the awardees!
Andrea Appel, College of Science
Parnian Boloori Zadeh, College of Engineering
Jeffrey Breugelmans, College of Engineering
Chris Chanyasulkit, College of Social Sciences & Humanities
Burleigh Hendrickson, College of Social Sciences & Humanities
Elizabeth Markle, Bouve College of Health Sciences
Aparna Mujumdar, College of Social Sciences & Humanities
Sara Sadler, College of Science
Cihan Yilmaz, College of Engineering
Young Lae Kim, College of Engineering
Antonella Mazur, College of Science
Stefan Ochiana, College of Science
Liana Pennington, College of Social Sciences & Humanities
Jennifer Sopchockchai (Bankard), College of Social Sciences & Humanities
Christopher Mathias, College of Social Sciences & Humanities
Desislava Raytcheva, College of Science
Leandra Smollin, College of Social Sciences & Humanities
Rebecca Thorndike-Breeze, College of Social Sciences & Humanities
Hua (Leo) Wang, College of Science
The Graduate Dissertation Completion Fellowships provides Ph.D. candidates who are nearing completion of their dissertation the financial support to spend their final semester writing. The duration of the award is one semester. Learn more »
After more than three decades of reporting, editing and running the investigative unit at The Boston Globe, Professor Walter Robinson returned to his alma mater, Northeastern, to teach journalism his way: through a “boots-on-the-ground” approach.
Callum Borchers, a student in the University’s Master of Arts program in Journalism, came because he wanted to learn it.
This summer, Nobel Laureates in the sciences gathered in Lindau, Germany to meet informally with 570 doctoral students from 80 countries – the 61st such assembly. Among those selected for the highly-competitive U.S. delegation to Lindau was Emily Corcoran, a Ph.D. student in Chemistry and a Northeastern University Excellence Fellowship recipient.
Sopchockchai came to Northeastern after completing her undergraduate degree at Brown University in 2005. “Part of the reason I came to Northeastern,” she says, “is because our program in the English Department gives students the opportunity to teach right away.”
“Each course presented a wonderful opportunity to learn and to grow as a teacher.”Nizar Zaarour started studying at Northeastern before some of his undergraduate students were born. Over the last 18 years, he has progressed from a BS in Civil Engineering through two MS degrees – one in Information Systems and one in Operations Research – and on to his PhD, in Industrial Engineering with a focus in Operations Research, while witnessing the campus change and grow.
Each is a trainee in Northeastern’s Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) doctoral program in Nanomedicine Science and Technology. The program, directed by Dr. Srinivas Sridhar, aims to educate the next generation of scientists and technologists from a number of fields by providing the necessary business, ethical and global perspectives to address scientific and engineering challenges that will be needed in the rapidly emerging area of applying nanotechnology to human health.
Dr. Vincent Harris, the recipient of the 2011 Klein University Lectureship, began his campus-wide address, Our magnetic society: The influence of magnetism from the iPod to cancer remediation therapies, by speaking of a substance he calls “exotic rust.”
The Expo, which has grown from 64 entries ten years ago to over 300 posters and presentations in 2011, highlights the innovation, creativity and impact of the University’s undergraduates, graduate students and faculty members.
New Jersey native Yogesh Patel grew up in a family of engineers and doctors, so his work in Dr. Charles DiMarzio’s Optical Science Laboratory — which develops biological and medical imaging modalities – is in ways a natural fit. Patel’s background and his work in biomedical optics and nanotechnology converge in the lab, which is working to revolutionize traditional methods of detecting skin cancer by developing a non-invasive imaging modality for use in clinical settings.
For Red Sox fan Brian Plouffe, Northeastern offers state-of-the-art facilities that are easily accessible from his home in Rhode Island. Though Plouffe’s daily commute is quick, presenting his research has taken him to more distant places, including Denver, San Francisco and Groningen, the Netherlands.
Originally from Kiev, Ukraine, Tatyana Chernenko came to Northeastern to study chemistry under the advisement of Dr. Max Diem, who specializes in optical methods for medical diagnosis. Her interests in imaging, microscopy, pharmaceutical research, nanotechnology and nanomedicine culminated during her two years with the IGERT program, where she began using infrared micro-spectroscopy to non-invasively monitor sub-cellular behavior and the intracellular delivery of drugs.
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