2025 NSF GRFP Recipients
Current students and alumni were recipients of the 2025 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Awards. This prestigious program recognizes outstanding graduate students who have demonstrated the potential to be high achieving scientists and engineers early in their careers. The five-year fellowship provides three years of financial support inclusive of an annual stipend.
This year’s success builds upon a strong track record for the College of Engineering. In both 2023 and 2024, five COE students were awarded the prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. For the 2025 cycle, four COE students have been named recipients, along with several honorable mentions, which is particularly commendable as fewer fellowships overall were awarded this year.
| Name | Baccalaureate Institution | Current Field of Study | Current Institution |
| Award Offered | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Coughlin, Matthew Charles (ME E’25) | Northeastern University | Engineering – Mechanical Engineering | Northeastern University |
| De Los Santos, Maya (ECE E’25) | Northeastern University | Comp/IS/Eng – Human Computer Interaction | Northeastern University |
| Pizzarella, Dominic G (ChE/Biochem E’25) | Northeastern University | Engineering – Chemical Engineering | Northeastern University |
| Szoo, Madeline JoAnna (ChE/Biochem E’25) | Northeastern University | Engineering – Bioengineering | Northeastern University |
| Honorable Mention | |||
| Abu-Absi, Lina R (ChE/Biochem E’24) | Northeastern University | Engineering – Chemical Engineering | University of Minnesota-Twin Cities |
| Benincasa, Andrew D (ECE PhD’29) | SUNY at Binghamton | Comp/IS/Eng – Wired and Wireless Networking | Northeastern University |
| Cho, Brian (ChE/Biochem E’23) | Northeastern University | Engineering – Bioengineering | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Dee, Amanda Angelina (BioE E’23) | Northeastern University | Life Sciences – Other (specify) – Plant Biology | University of California, Berkeley |
| Goggins, Brooke A (CEE PhD’28) | Pennsylvania State Univ University Park | Engineering – Environmental and/or Ecological Engineering | Northeastern University |
| Healey, Jessica (ME E’24) | Northeastern University | Engineering – Mechanical Engineering | University of California San Diego |
| Huey, Carolyn Judith (ME/Physics E’24) | Northeastern University | Engineering – Mechanical Engineering | Regents of the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor |
| Hurley, Nicholas (Comp Eng/Physics E’24) | Northeastern University | Engineering – Quantum Engineering | |
| Jonson, Tobias O (BioE/Biochem E’24) | Northeastern University | Life Sciences – Proteomics | |
| Patel, Smeet (ME/Physics E’24) | Northeastern University | Engineering – Nuclear Engineering | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Ramesh, Kaitlyn (BioE E’25) | Northeastern University | Life Sciences – Bioinformatics and Computational Biology | Northeastern University |
| Storrer, Alex Daniel (ME/Physics E’24) | Northeastern University | Engineering – Mechanical Engineering | Stanford University |
| Ton, Vincent (ME PhD’25) | University of California-Irvine | Engineering – Mechanical Engineering | Northeastern University |
| Trauger, Marena (ChE PhD’28) | Pennsylvania State University | Engineering – Chemical Engineering | Northeastern University |
| Tseng, Lanny (EE/Physics E’25) | Northeastern University | Engineering – Other (specify) – Radio Frequency Engineering | Northeastern University |
| Williams, Victoria (BioE PhD’28) | University of Massachusetts Lowell | Engineering – Biomedical Engineering | Northeastern University |