2026 NSF GRFP Recipients
Current students and alumni were recipients of the 2026 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.
| Name | Baccalaureate Institution | Current Field of Study | Current Institution |
| Award Offered | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Balaguer, John Corey (CEE PhD) | Northeastern University | Engineering – Civil Engineering (including Transport, Water, Construction) | Northeastern University |
| Briasco-Stewart, Andrew S (Comp Eng/CS E’24) | Northeastern University | Comp/IS/Eng – Data Science, Data Mining, Information Retrieval and Databases | Trustees of Boston University |
| Couto Frignani, Matteo (BioE/Biochem E’25) | Northeastern University | Engineering – Bioengineering | Princeton University |
| Dial, Caroline E (BioE E’25) | Northeastern University | Engineering – Biomedical Engineering | California Institute of Technology |
| Fu, Dawning JiaXi (BioE E’26) | Northeastern University | Engineering – Bioengineering | Northeastern University |
| Higgins, Hannah (BioE PhD) | Mercer University | Engineering – Bioengineering | Northeastern University |
| Jewell, Jackson K (BioE PhD) | Duquesne University | Engineering – Bioengineering | Northeastern University |
| Lund, Aavi (ME E’26) | Northeastern University | Engineering – Mechanical Engineering | Northeastern University |
| Millican, Karina Esperanza (BioE E’25) | Northeastern University | Engineering – Biomedical Engineering | University of California-Irvine |
| Patel, Miti (BioE E’24) | Northeastern University | Engineering – Biomedical Engineering | |
| Wang, Chushun (ME E’26) | Northeastern University | Engineering – Mechanical Engineering | |
| Honorable Mention | |||
| Clifford, Evan John (EE E’26) | Northeastern University | Physics and Astronomy – Quantum Information Science | Northeastern University |
| Perez Tetuan, Jimena (BioE/Biochem E’26) | Northeastern University | Life Sciences – Cell Biology | Northeastern University |