Photo: Chris Wolfel (left) and Steven Tello (right). Steven Tello, UMass Lowell’s vice provost of graduate and professional studies, at the awards ceremony for the 11th annual Deshpande Symposium, honoring Northeastern.

We are excited to announce that Northeastern University is the recipient of the 2022 Deshpande Symposium Award for Excellence in Student Engagement in Entrepreneurship. This is in huge part thanks to the work and goals achieved by all of our students in the building and development of Mosaic.

The Deshpande Symposium Awards for Excellence in Innovation and Entrepreneurship recognize institutions annually who excel in areas of entrepreneurship. The purpose of this award is to recognize the importance of student leadership and engagement in developing innovative extra-curricular activities that support the development of entrepreneurial awareness, skills and practice.

"We congratulate this year’s awardees, who demonstrate the solutions-oriented approach to supporting university innovation and entrepreneurship that the Deshpande Symposium is known for,” said Phil Weilerstein, president and CEO of VentureWell, which funds and trains faculty and student innovators to create successful, socially beneficial businesses. “Over the past 10 years, the accomplishments of this community of higher ed changemakers have grown.”

Mosaic impacts the lives of over 4,000 Northeastern students every year across multidisciplinary programming, workshops, and venture-client engagements. Annually, hundreds of new venture concepts are developed and supported by student leaders and their diverse teams.

The Deshpande Award Committee believes that Mosaic best exemplifies the Excellence in Student Engagement award with the breadth of programming under the Mosaic umbrella, the constant reinvention and, most importantly, having the students take the lead in managing the programs. Learn more about Mosaic from students directly in the video below. If you’d like to support Mosaic, please consider giving a gift on this page.

Read more from the coverage done by News@Northeastern here.