By Alex Vipond Driving east out of Cape Town, South Africa, you pass a sea of corrugated metal roofs that stretches out as far as the eye can see. Bright blue portable toilets and dull grey satellite dishes accent the rusty metal landscape. Enterprising, poor South Africans on the side Read more…
By Eric Ishahak Nanyuki is about 3 hours outside of the capital city Nairobi on the equator line in the shadows of Mt. Kenya. The managing director of Eco Fuels Kenya (EFK), Myles Lutheran, is a Northeastern alum and I have the privilege of being his first ever co-op in an Read more…
By Professor Dennis Shaughnessy We’re about to wrap up a new course I’m teaching on the impact that the next generation of technologies will have on society, especially on the displacement of workers. Some refer to the rapid growth of new technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), advanced robotics and CRISPR/CAs9-based Read more…
By Marisa Kallenberger The power went out. Music started blasting from a nearby yard. A moonlit dance party erupted in the neighborhood of Kamwala. Everyone, from two year olds, to their grandmothers, to the university students from America (although one was clearly inferior in the dancing department), joined in. This Read more…
By Kim Izar As a first-generation U.S. citizen, I was always reminded by my mother, an immigrant from the Philippines, how essential it was that my brother and I receive a quality education. The power of education was something that my family had always stressed, often repeating that it was Read more…
Social Entrepreneurship Grows Up at Northeastern By Professor Dennis Shaughnessy “I saw this big problem. Desperately poor women not given a chance to build a decent life for themselves and their little kids. So I started a business to fix it. It’s as simple as that!” Muhammad Yunus, founder of Read more…