University archivist Joan Krizack has been awarded the New England Archivists (NEA) Distinguished Service Award, granted to individuals and institutions dedicated to promoting NEA objectives and making significant contributions to the profession, their institution, the NEA, and New England's archival community.

A group of Northeastern computer science students won third place out of the thirty teams taking part in a national software design competition. Held in May in Redmond, Washington, and sponsored by Microsoft, the third-annual two-day Imagine Cup Software Design Invitational challenged students to develop a mobile application that helps dissolve boundaries between people.

Northeastern's winners, Jorel Fermin, Churk Leung, and Maurice Peltier, developed a program called eVt, which aims to remove a variety of communication barriers, including language and geography, using technologies such as speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and language translation, along with devices such as Smartphones, personal digital assistants, and laptops.

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