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Announcing Dissertation Completion Fellowship Awardees

We are pleased to announce the recipients of the Graduate Dissertation Completion Fellowship. Congratulations to the awardees!

Spring 2013

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

Fall 2012

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

Spring 2012

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 »

Journalism Students work with “The Boston Globe” to Make Front Page News

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.

Chemistry Student Emily Corcoran joins U.S. Delegation to Lindau Meeting of Nobel Laureates

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.

Meet Jennifer Sopchockchai: 2011 Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award Winner in the Humanities, Social and Behavioral Sciences

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.”

Meet Nizar Zaarour: 2011 Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award Winner in the Life Sciences, Physical Sciences and Engineering

“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.

IGERT Nanomedicine at Northeastern

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.

Professor Vincent Harris and the “Mystery of Magnetism”

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.”

Seaweed, Row-houses and Video Games: Graduate Students Undertake Research in Every Field

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.