Monthly Archives: April 2020
Wig Earns NDSEG Fellowship for Electrical Engineering PhD
Elizabeth Wig COE’20 has earned the highly competitive National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship to support her doctoral work in electrical engineering, which she will pursue at Stanford University. The award, which is funded by the research agencies within the United States Department of Defense, recognizes the potential of Elizabeth’s research to contribute to US national […]
Rachael Phillips Earns Boren Scholarship
Rachael Phillips CSSH’21, a University Scholar with a keen interest and deep experience in Balkan languages, cultures, and politics, has earned the Boren Scholarship to support a year of linguistic and cultural immersion in Montenegro. The federally-funded Boren Scholarship promotes linguistically-intensive study abroad in regions and languages crucial to US national security. Rachael, an international […]
Rhodes Scholar Singh Adds NIH OxCam Scholarship to Accolades
After becoming Northeastern’s second Rhodes Scholar, Kritika Singh COE’20 knew that the University of Oxford would be the next destination on her educational journey. Now, though, her plans have taken more specific shape as Kritika has been named a National Institutes of Health Oxford-Cambridge (NIH OxCam) Scholar as well. The NIH OxCam Program is an […]
This Fulbright Scholar Wants to Find Ways to Prevent or Slow the Spread of Cancer
Studying a laminated poster of a human cell diagram on the wall of his fifth-grade classroom, with its kaleidoscope-colored blobs and globules the names and functions of which he barely understood, a young Jake Potts found his gaze wandering to the image of the endoplasmic reticulum. Potts, a University Scholar, remembered observing how from […]