Category: Article
March 20, 2026
Meet the Vancouver alum working on games like Call of Duty
Before joining game studio and Activision-Blizzard subsidiary Demonware as a software engineer, Northeastern Vancouver MS in Computer Science graduate Ria Agarwal had never played their AAA video game series Call of Duty. But shortly after starting her job in 2022...
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October 30, 2025
Canada’s New Pathway for a Career Change to Tech
The race for tech talent in Canada is accelerating. CompTIA projects that the country’s tech employment will grow almost 1.8 times faster than the overall workforce over the next decade. A look at recent developments across the nation makes the...
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June 24, 2025
Students at Northeastern University's Vancouver Campus Step Into Health Tech
Stepping into a hyperbaric chamber, inspecting surgical robots up close, and walking hospital hallways in scrubs are typically reserved for healthcare professionals and patients. But for twenty Northeastern Vancouver graduate students on a tour of Vancouver General Hospital (VGH) last...
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May 7, 2025
Transforming Healthcare Through Data: Vancouver's new Master of Science in Health Informatics
Healthcare and technology are two of the most exciting, rapidly-evolving job markets in the world. And in the fall of 2025, students will get a new opportunity to explore them together, as Northeastern University in Vancouver launches its Master of...
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April 15, 2025
From Marketing to Machine Learning: Claire Liu’s Journey into Tech
Panxin (Claire) Liu didn’t always want to be a computer scientist. Her bachelor’s degree is in media and advertising, and she was working in marketing in China when artificial intelligence first captured her curiosity. “When I was still doing marketing...
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March 7, 2025
Northeastern in Vancouver Student Workshop Promotes Gender Equity in STEM
Olivia Lam is a woman who loves research. She knows that isn’t unusual, but in an industry like STEM – where men make up two thirds of the workforce – it can certainly feel that way sometimes. When her Information...
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June 2, 2023
Can forest fires be predicted? How drones, data and computer science are being used in western Canada
Trees charred by wildfires on the outskirts of Lytton, British Columbia, on September 1, 2021. – On the front lines of global warming, evacuees from Lytton, a western Canadian village destroyed by wildfires in June, are detached and bitter about...
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May 25, 2023
Northeastern recognizes resiliency of computer science graduates at Vancouver convocation
Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University This post originally appeared at Northeastern Global News. By David Nordman VANCOUVER, British Columbia—Northeastern University celebrated 121 master’s degree recipients during Thursday’s Vancouver campus convocation at The Centre for Performing Arts. The lively ceremony included...
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April 27, 2023
The importance of human-centred leadership
This post originally appeared at University Affairs. By Jodi Szimanski & Dr. Bethany Edmunds Showing gratitude, providing professional growth opportunities as well as community-building are all vital to being a good leader. Postsecondary institutions are not immune to losing staff...
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April 13, 2023
Don’t be surprised by AI chatbots creating fake citations
This post originally appeared in Marketplace Tech. Bethany Edmunds of Northeastern University says these systems are built to generate text and language, not to be factually accurate — however plausible their references may seem. By now a lot of us...
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