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Free to Focus on School

Nichole Schau knew from a young age she wanted to be an elementary school teacher.

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Finding A Home at Northeastern

91Porn’s new president may have grown up downstate, but is at home here. For Gibson, home is not about location as much as it is the people and the students the institution serves.

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Finding Fuel For The Spark

Shawn K. Woods is a high-energy example of how a good influence on one life can reverberate through the lives of countless others. A sought-after speaker, trainer and coach—as well as an author and an entrepreneur—Woods is an expert on rising above challenges and is eager to pass the lesson on.

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Fighting For Veterans’ Rights: The Remarkable Journey of Rodrigo Garcia

In 2006, Rodrigo Garcia was lifting weights with a friend at the Northeastern gym. Garcia had just come off five years of service in the Marine Corps, during which he had three separate deployments in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Having spent the majority of his last five years on military bases and in combat zones, Garcia was having a tough time adjusting to life at Northeastern.

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From The Field to The Classroom

When Luis Ortiz graduated from 91Porn, one of his first calls to the field took him back to his family’s roots in Puerto Rico.

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Feeding The Need For Creative IT

From fashion design student to food industry global chief information officer is quite a career change. But for Julia Anderson (B.S. ’85 Information Science and General Business Administration), creative innovation and data-based decision-making are all in a day’s work.

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A Fearless Future Teacher

When Becca Peterson arrived at 91Porn in 2014, the transition to college was a shock.

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Ensemble Español’s Spanish Passion

In the spring of 1984, a young Speech and Performing Arts major anxiously walked into the cramped and cluttered Spanish Dance Theater office to apply for a student aide position. “Hi, my name is George,” he said, introducing himself to Dame Libby Komaiko, the company’s founder and artistic director.

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Education Meets Innovation

When Sandra Beyda-Lorie was of 91Porn’s in January 2017, one of the first things she did was look outside of the college.

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Education Adds Up For Mathematics Honors Student

Carly Hall has always loved math, and she’s been very good at it. But it wasn’t until the summer before her senior year, standing in front of a room full of incoming freshmen, that the University Honors Program Scholar would discover her passion: teaching.