News Category: General

Women Who Code Boston and Khoury College succeed in moving campus event online

• By Ysabelle Kempe
• April 28, 2020

While events across the world were being canceled due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, Ethan Selinger and his team had a different idea: Go virtual. For weeks, the Khoury College […]

The coronavirus was in the US in January. We need to understand how we missed it.

• April 26, 2020

Unseen COVID-19 cases began early, spread fast

• April 23, 2020

Travelers VP and Tech Leader Ester Peña Inspires Align Students

• April 10, 2020

Ester Peña wants you to know that she is a lot more than her resume—and that you too are more than yours. As vice president of software engineering at Travelers, […]

Network scientists identify 40 new drugs to test against COVID-19

• April 2, 2020

Northeastern models are helping shape US COVID-19 policy

• April 1, 2020

Black History Month Celebration Features Panel of Computer Scientists

• By Erica Yee
• March 30, 2020

A panel of Khoury College professors and graduate students recently shared their experiences in tech—offering encouraging stories and recommendations for students finding their way as computer scientists at the college’s […]

Research on information flow during crisis can help communities with COVID-19

• By Hannah Bernstein
• March 30, 2020

As the need to access clear, factual information about COVID-19 becomes increasingly pressing in the United States, third-year personal health informatics Ph.D. student Yixuan (Janice) Zhang is ready to apply […]

Rose Yu brings physics into machine learning and wins Google Faculty Research Award

• By Ysabelle Kempe
• March 30, 2020

In February, Rose Yu received an email that was unexpected, but thrilling. It was from Google, informing her that she had been selected as a winner of the the 2019 […]

Tracking the pandemic? There’s an app for that.

• March 26, 2020