Other Graduate Student Awards
Each year, Northeastern graduate students receive a wide range of awards and scholarships that reflect excellence in academics, research, and experiential learning. This past year, the following graduate students earned prestigious awards from organizations outside of Northeastern.
2025 Honorees
Nazira Cisse, E M’24, BS Environmental Engineering, Minor in Theatre
GEM Fellowship
2022-23
Abdullah Al Bashit
Margaret C. Etter Student Lecturer Award, American Crystallographic Association
Min Gong
Second Prize, Science as Art section of 2021 Merck Technology Symposium, Merck & Co.
Dat Huynh
PhD Fellowship, J.P. Morgan
Khara James
President’s Cup Award and PhD Student Investigator Doctoral Award, New England chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine
Malith Jayaweera Don Satarasinghege
Student Research Competition Award, Association for Computing Machinery
Mohsin Khan
Top Three in Policy Hackathon Health Challenge, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Maciej Kos
Transition to Aging Research Training Fellowship, National Institute of Aging, National Institutes of Health
Lorraine Lacroix-Williamson
Fostering Diversity in HIV Research Fellowship, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Josh Miller
Service Award, RosettaCommons
Tirthak Patel
George Michael Memorial High Performance Computing Fellowship, Association for Computing Machinery, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society
Wesley Roberts
National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship, United States Department of Defense
Yuyan Wang
Excellence in Graduate Polymer Research, American Chemical Society, Division of Polymer Chemistry
Brenda Winn
Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Individual Predoctoral Fellowship, National Institute of Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health
Lydia Zakynthinou
PhD Fellowship, Facebook (Meta)
2020–21
Shereen Bellamy
GEM Fellowship
Avery Blankenship
Scholar, Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory
Jonathan Chery
GEM Fellowship
Brandon Dominique
GEM Fellowship
Tim Fraser
Japan Foundation Doctoral Research Fellowship
Fulbright Graduate Fellowship in Japan
Social Science Research Council Nomination for Japan Society for Promotion of Science Fellowship
Jacqueline A. Greeley
Northeastern University’s 2021 President’s Award
Julianne Mariner
Northeastern University’s 2021 President’s Award
Molly Nebiolo
Long-Term Residential Predoctoral Fellowship, American Philosophical Society
Alanna Prince
Social Media Corps Fellow from the African American History, Culture, and Digital Humanities (AADHum)
Maria Robson
Mobilizing Insights in Defence and Security (MINDS) Initiative Doctoral Fellowship, Department of National Defence, Government of Canada
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Doctoral Fellowship, Government of Canada
Alexandria Will-Cole
National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship Program
Jose Zamora-Orellana
GEM Fellowship
2019–20
Jeryl Concepcion
Outstanding New Professional Award, National Association of Student Personnel Administrators, Region V
Amanda Dwyer
John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship, National Sea Grant College Program
John Ferrier
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
Timothy Fraser
Fulbright Scholarship
Kelsi Furman
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Opportunities Worldwide program
Justin Haner
James Madison Charitable Trust Archival Scholarship and Humane Studies Fellowship
Katherine Hoemann
Marie Curie Fellowship
Kathryn Hoyt
Ford Foundation Fellowship
Laura Johnson
Workshop for Women Writers Project, Pacific Lutheran University
Cherice Jones
Research Initiative grant, Conference on College Composition and Communication
Lucianna Kiffer
Facebook Fellowship
Summer Marion
Predoctoral Fellow, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
Cara Marta Messina
Kairos Teaching Award
Carolina Mattsson
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Internship Program
Jonathan Osborne
Diversity Scholars Fellowship, Ithaca College
Divya Parikh
Forbes Under 30 Scholar
Cherron Payne
Fulbright Specialist Program
Maria Robson
Prestage-Cook Travel Award and Humane Studies Fellowship
Lois Seffu
Boren Fellowship
Alexandria Will-Cole
Department of Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship
Candence Wills
Experiential Fellow, United Nations Office of Drug and Crime
Alexis Yohros
Rappaport Institute Public Policy Fellowship, Harvard Kennedy School
Toshiaki Yoshida
Japanese Language Text Mining Workshop, University of Chicago