This summer, the PhD Network is running a pilot Intro to Grad School (I2G) Cohort. This series will help you cultivate a toolkit of skills that you can use throughout graduate school. The Summer 2024 Intro to Grad School cohort will meet in person on the Boston campus on the following Fridays from 11:00am – 12:30 pm ET. May 31: Self-Assessment and Goal Setting June 14: Strategies for Reading an... Source ..read more

The director of the Center for Translational Neuroimaging and professor of psychology and pharmaceutical sciences explains how the LEADERs Program prepares students for the future—in industry or academia. That’s why, he says, every Northeastern PhD should enroll in its flagship course, “Leading Self and Others.” Anna Fiorentino: It’s clear to anyone who knows her that Xuezhu Cai... Source ..read more

How one alum landed a top job at the booming intersection of healthcare and predictive analytics—fresh out of graduation. By Anna Fiorentino It used to take ten years to discover a new drug, but today’s game-changing sequencing methods, like CRISPR screening, allow scientists to identify pharmaceutical targets in half that time or even less. Thanks to machine learning, a large volume of medical... Source ..read more

From her roots in the Democratic Republic of Congo to a fellowship at Amgen and onto Flagship Pioneering, through LEADERs she found her sweet spot: the venture creation of public health startups. By Anna Fiorentino It was her LEADERs fellowship with biopharmaceutical pioneer Amgen that led Jordie Kamuene, Pharmaceutical Sciences, PhD’23, to find a new career path in venture creation... Source ..read more

Former LEADERs fellow is protecting the planet from harmful pollutants, as companies anticipate adhering to an incoming federal rule requiring disclosure of chemical emissions for every product sold. By Anna Fiorentino In 2020, during his LEADERs fellowship with Wayfair, Abhijeet Parvatker, PhD’21, began drafting the e-commerce giant’s first policy to restrict harmful substances in every product... Source ..read more

Without Northeastern’s Leadership Education Advancing Discovery through Embedded Research (LEADERs) program, for Syed Arefinul Haque, PhD ’22, things would look very different. He would probably still be searching for a job in academia, he says. Instead though, through one of the PhD Network’s experiential learning initiatives, in 2021 Haque was placed at pharmaceutical giant Merck. Source ..read more

Former LEADERs fellow is protecting the planet from harmful pollutants, as companies anticipate adhering to an incoming federal rule requiring disclosure of chemical emissions for every product sold. By Anna Fiorentino In 2020, during his LEADERs fellowship with Wayfair, Abhijeet Parvatker, PhD’21, began drafting the e-commerce giant’s first policy to restrict harmful substances in every product... Source ..read more

Deadlines: February 2, 2024 for nominations February 21, 2024 for portfolio submissions Faculty are invited to nominate PhD students using this form. The purpose of the Outstanding Graduate Student Awards is to honor exceptional PhD students for their significant contributions and accomplishments as a graduate student at Northeastern University. The awards were established to honor individuals... Source ..read more

Without Northeastern’s Leadership Education Advancing Discovery through Embedded Research (LEADERs) program, for Syed Arefinul Haque, PhD ’22, things would look very different. He would probably still be searching for a job in academia, he says. Instead though, through one of the PhD Network’s experiential learning initiatives, in 2021 Haque was placed at pharmaceutical giant Merck. Source ..read more

Inside Northeastern’s Curry Student Center, doctoral candidate Burcu Ozek, ’23 PhD, explains she’s found a way to identify pain in babies who can’t otherwise express it. Ozek was one of 45 PhD students presenting on November 17 at the Cutting-Edge Connections in PhD Research: Healthcare Innovation networking fair, sponsored by Northeastern’s PhD Network and Career Design Office. “I’m looking to go... Source ..read more