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Nov 13, 2020

Building on Chemical Engineering with People and Project Management Skills

Rachely Sanchez Murray, E’22, chemical engineering, developed her love for engineering early. Throughout high school, she participated in programs that helped foster that interest. She also knew she wanted to go to a college that not only fed that interest but was also extremely innovative and not stuck in “traditional” ways.

Chemical Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Nov 03, 2020

Take the Leap Abroad and in All You Do

For Macy Parchment, E’22, a junior chemical engineering student, while Boston has certainly had many advantages, it’s her international experience that stands out as she looks back at her college career so far.

Chemical Engineering

Oct 02, 2020

PhD Spotlight: Jonathan Soucy, PhD’20 – Chemical Engineering

Advised by Assistant Professor Ryan Koppes, Chemical Engineering After receiving his bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2015, Jonathan Soucy joined Northeastern University pursuing a PhD […]

Chemical Engineering

Aug 31, 2020

The Journey to Food Sustainability Requires Chemical Engineering

What do you get when you combine a knack for chemistry and math? A chemical engineering major, according to Samantha Roman, E’20. “I was good at both of them,” she […]

Chemical Engineering

Nov 21, 2019

Taking Research to the NSF I-Corps ‘Shark Tank’

Zach Rogers, a chemical engineering PhD student in Assistant Professor Sidi A. Bencherif’s lab, developed a novel proposal and was selected to join the Northeastern node of the National Science Foundation’s I-Corps program for his work.

Chemical Engineering

May 13, 2019

ChE Alumna Discusses Career Journey

Pik Leng Wong, MS, Chemical Engineering, 2001 and BS, Chemical Engineering, 1999—Pik Leng Wong graduated from the Chemical Engineering BS/MS program in 2001. Pik Leng recently recounted her BS/MS experience […]

Chemical Engineering

student smiling next to research poster on display

Mar 27, 2019

2019 AAAS Student E-Poster Competition Experience

Written by Ada Vernet-Crua, a first-year PhD student. About Ada Vernet-Crua Ada is working in the Nanomedicine lab investigating novel materials for biomedical applications – such as antibacterial and anticancer […]

Chemical Engineering

Oct 30, 2018

AIChE – A Defining Experience

The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), which was chartered all the way back in 1938, has been growing in the last few years under the tutelage of current student […]

Chemical Engineering