Alumni News
Sep 02, 2026
Bioengineering Alumna to Speak at Boston Convocation
Bioengineering alumna Samantha Johnson, E’21, MS’21, founder and CEO of Tatum Robotics, will serve as the featured alumni speaker at Northeastern University’s Boston Convocation, where she will share how her student experiences led her to develop tactile-signing robotic technology for the DeafBlind community.
Aug 13, 2026
Celebrating Four Engineering Innovators Named in Women Who Empower Awards
Four Northeastern University College of Engineering alumnae and students were recognized in the 2026 Women Who Empower Innovator Awards, celebrating bold leadership, creative problem-solving, and entrepreneurial impact across medical technology, health, and wellness.
Apr 21, 2026
Choose Your Own Path: Sara Capella’s Journey at Northeastern
Sara Capella, E/MS’22, bioengineering, graduated with both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree from Northeastern University. Using the experiences and skills she gained at Northeastern, Capella now works full-time at Medtronic installing novel cardiovascular technology.
Aug 21, 2025
Creating Impactful Medical Devices to Improve Lives
Caline Pechdimaljian, MS’25, bioengineering, started her career in pharmaceutical process engineering research and development. Her work with pharmaceutical manufacturing sparked her curiosity for looking into targeted therapeutics and medical device development. The bioengineering master’s program led her to discover her passion for working on technology to improve the health and quality of life of patients and communities.
Apr 03, 2025
Affinity Student Groups 20th Annual Joint Recognition Banquet
Students, faculty, staff, alumni, and corporate partners were recognized for their commitments to engineering affinity student groups at the 20th Annual Joint Recognition Banquet. The participating groups included SHPE, SWE, BESS, and SASE.
Apr 02, 2025
Drug Delivery Using Cationic Exosomes To Treat Osteoarthritis
Tanvi Vinod Pathrikar, PhD’24, bioengineering, who worked in BioE Associate Professor Ambika Bajpayee’s lab, published “Cartilage-targeting Exosomes for Delivery of Receptor Antagonist of Interleukin-1 in Osteoarthritis treatment” in Osteoarthritis and Cartilage.
Feb 25, 2025
Young Alumni Impact Award Winners Share Their Career Journeys
As part of Engineers Week, Gregory Abowd, dean of the College of Engineering, presented the college’s inaugural Young Alumni Impact Awards to six recent graduates who are transforming industries and inspiring the next generation. The award recipients shared their career journeys and how they turned their experiential education into impactful careers. View the video recap and photo gallery.
Feb 11, 2025
Bioengineering Capstone Team Improves Healthcare in Rural Maine
As part of their capstone project, bioengineering students developed Flextab, a circular silicon-based tab that replaces stickers on an electrocardiogram (EKG), after learning about healthcare professionals’ needs in rural Maine working with the Roux Institute at Northeastern.