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