Danielle Murad Waiss

Student Goes Global to Explore International Security, Government

Danielle Murad Waiss’ interest in exploring and better understanding the world stems from her multicultural background. She was born in Mexico and grew up in a family with a Mexican mother and Canadian father. She came to Northeastern eager to expand her knowledge by taking advantage of global experiences. For the past year, that’s exactly […]

Jay Shome, left, and Andrew Smith,

New Student-Created App Makes “Friending” Easy

“Friending made easy.” That’s the motto of FriendsUp, a new app enabling users to share contact information and connect via Snapchat, Facebook, and Instagram in the blink of an eye. It’s the brainchild of Andrew Smith and Jay Shome, both E’18, who launched the app in July and have seen its user base grow into the thousands […]

CGI U 2017 Codeathon

Students Excited to ‘Feed off the Energy’ of CGI U

In high school, Kritika Singh founded Malaria Free World, a nonprofit focused on raising awareness of and supporting research for a disease that claimed 429,000 lives in 2015, according to the World Health Organization. Now a second-year bioengineering major at Northeastern, Singh remains dedicated to the cause. This weekend, Singh will be one of thousands from […]