Find the accomplished faculty, students, and alumni who have won Khoury College and Northeastern University awards over the years.

Khoury recipients of university and external awards

Laurel and Scroll

Laurel and Scroll 100, established in 2024, honors exceptional graduate students across the Northeastern network.

• 2025: Fnu Aisha, Srinivasa Sameer Addepalli, Nandini Bommireddy, Ritik Bompilwar, Himalaya Dua, Erdun E, Kaustubha Eluri, Daniela Alejandra Gonzalez, Jenish Sunil Kothari, Dipti Kulkarni, Nihar Sanda, Nayonika Sen, Hunjun Shin, Alyssa Smith, Shashwath Udaya Kumar, Princewill Umeh, Songting Yang
• 2024: Spencer Belsky, Daniel Bi, Ziyun Chen, Vidya Ganesh, Tom Henehan, Niyati Khandelwal, Peiying Li, LeAnn Mendoza, Annie Pates, Shagun Saboo, Manikhanta Praphul Samavedam

Barry Goldwater Scholarship

This national award — the most prestigious undergraduate science scholarship in the country — is granted annually to top sophomores and juniors studying math, science, or engineering.

• Rohan Chopra (2025)

Compass Award

The Compass Award recognizes exemplary seniors who demonstrated a true dedication to a core set of values: leadership, volunteerism, academic integrity, and commitment to Northeastern.

• James Chang-Davidson (2024)
• Meera Whitson (2023)
• Fiona McCrae (2022)
• Felicia Zhang (2021)
• Marley Arborico (2020)
• Jessica Merritt (2019)
• Elliot Horan (2018)
• Shivaanjali Singh (2017)
• Jeffrey Wallace (2016)

Critical Language Scholarship

The Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program provides fully funded immersive summer programs for US undergraduate and graduate students to learn languages of strategic importance to the United States’ national security, economic prosperity, and engagement with the world.

• Matthew Chen (2025)

Fulbright Scholarship

Fulbrights are awarded to exceptional students to research, study, or teach English abroad, to foster diplomacy and mutual understanding between the US and other countries.

• Maxwell Pirtle (2024)
• Michael Nelson (2023)
• Daniel Russotto (2018)

Hodgkinson Award

The Hodgkinson Award recognizes top students on the basis of academic and experiential performance, and selections are made by a faculty committee.

• Tejas Sathyamurthi (2023)
• Max Daniels (2022)

NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

The National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship recognizes and supports outstanding students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who will pursue research-based master’s and doctoral degrees at accredited US institutions.

• Jacob Ginesin, Elisabeth Leung, Conrad Zimmerman (2025)
• Diego Rivera, Sabra Sisler, Neel Sortur, Stanley Wu (2024)
• Derek Egolf, Liam Pavlovic, Alyssa Smith (2023)

Sears B. Condit

Honorees of this award, all juniors and seniors, receive a scholarship for outstanding scholastic achievement.

• Alexzander Sansiveri (2025)
• Neeti Desai (2024)

Outstanding Graduate Student Awards (master’s and PhD)

• Jonathan Tarun Rajasekaran (master’s, teaching) 2025
• Dian Wang (PhD, research) 2025
• Diptendu Kar (master’s, teaching) 2024
• Ryan Muther (PhD, humanics) 2024
• LeAnn Mendoza (master’s, community impact) 2024

Outstanding Global Network Student Awards

The Outstanding Global Network Student Award recognizes students pursing master’s or professional doctorate degrees in studies at one of Northeastern’s network campuses and who have demonstrated excellence in one or more of the following areas: academics, research, leadership, teaching or impact.

• Akash Deepak Sancheti (Arlington), Erdun E (Miami), Diya Wadhwani (Oakland), Yiwen Wang (Seattle), Richard Yue (Silicon Valley), Panxin Liu (Vancouver), 2025

Northeastern University Staff Excellence Awards 2025 recipients

Innovation Across the Network Award

Khoury TA hiring managers

• Michael Jordan de Vera, director of graduate student services for online programs (Silicon Valley)
• Megan Clough Groshek, assistant director – undergraduate programs (Boston)
• Caley Presby, associate director – network operations (Portland)
• Austin Escalera, assistant director – graduate student services (Seattle)
• Sweeny Youkhane, assistant director – graduate student services (Silicon Valley)
• Mahya Payamshad, assistant director – graduate student services (Vancouver)
• Brinn Strenger, assistant director – graduate student services (Arlington)
• Darcy Andrade, network program administrator (Portland)
• Mackenzie Germain, faculty senior HR associate (Boston)
• Rayanne DeRosa, HR associate  (Boston)
• Alexander Grob, associate director of software development (Boston)

Dream Team Award

Khoury Graduate Recruitment Team

• Kimberly McCrimmon, director – recruitment marketing (Charlotte)
• Samol Ork, director – recruitment operations (Silicon Valley)
• Chelsea Smith, senior assistant director of recruitment marketing (Boston)
• Pamela Allen, regional director – graduate recruitment (Silicon Valley)
• Dom Rinaldi, graduate admissions counselor (Miami)
• Madison Barton, graduate admissions counselor (Arlington)
• Timothy Greer, graduate admissions counselor (Seattle)