Spotlight Stories

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.

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.

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 […]

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]