3 COE Students Nominated for Rhodes and Marshall Scholarships
Logan Jackson, CEE’16, Julieta Moradei, CEE’16, and Jake Rabinowitz, ChE’16 were nominated for the prestigious Rhodes and Marshall Scholarships.
Source: Undergraduate Research and Creative Endeavors
The Rhodes and Marshall Scholarships are among the most prestigious postgraduate awards in the world, and this year Northeastern University had the pleasure of nominating four applicants for these scholarships. These students embody the best aspects of a Northeastern education: academic excellence, consequential research, dedicated service to others, and an aspiration to apply their prodigious talents and skills to improving our world. Read on to meet these exceptional young people.
Logan Jackson COE’16
Improving Educational Equity
Logan Jackson joined us in Boston by way of Lexington, Kentucky, where she attended a school she only later learned was failing many of its students. Arriving at Northeastern, Logan felt challenged and inspired by her rigorous academic curriculum in civil engineering. She maintains an unblemished academic record and has ventured far beyond the classroom into a deep engagement with research, devoting two years to testing a system for detecting progressive structural collapse, which could warn occupants that a building is about to fall. Through Northeastern’s cooperative education program, Logan accepted positions of progressively greater responsibility at some of our nation’s and the world’s leading construction firms while also earning a prestigious internship to work at Intel. Dedicated to servant leadership — and ensuring that others have access to opportunities — Logan has devoted extraordinary time and energy to Northeastern’s chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers, serving first as Chair of the Pre-College Initiative, then as Vice President and finally as President. Under her leadership, a new mentoring system was instituted and the group earned the APEX Award, which recognizes the chapter with the most members with GPAs over 3.0. Logan plans to further her studies in education and social policy and work to redress educational inequity in the United States. Logan was also named to “The Huntington 100″ and is a member of our Honors Program.
Julieta Moradei COE’16
Reimagining the Built Environment
An Honors student who has lived in Buenos Aires, Montreal, and Boston, Julieta Moradei studies civil engineering with minors in technological entrepreneurship and art and design. Julieta’s ambition is to bridge the worlds of architecture and engineering, reimagining the way buildings are designed and built to produce cheaper, faster, safer, more sustainable methods for meeting the needs of a rapidly urbanizing world. Her current research involves thermal modeling for a project investigating new materials to attach facades to buildings to prevent heat transfer between the interior and exterior of the structure. While on co-op at Disney, Julieta assisted in a structural evaluation of the Epcot ball and became one of the first people in decades to stand atop this iconic structure. You can view her “Coolest Co-op” video about her experiences here. Later, she worked for the designer of the ball, Glenn Bell, at the structural engineering firm Simpson Gumpertz & Heger. Julia is an avid runner and has volunteered over 200 hours with preschool children through Jumpstart, an early-education initiative.
Jake Rabinowitz COE’16
Applying Nanoscience Principles to Solve Neuroscience Problems
A chemical engineering major with a minor in business administration, Jake Rabinowitz aspires to design biomechanical sensors that could lead to new treatments for neurodegenerative diseases. Arriving at Northeastern by way of Valley Stream, NY, Rabinowitz has made his mark on campus through his research in nanotechnology—engineering materials at the smallest possible scale. For over four years, he has worked at the Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing, a National Science Foundation-funded research center that is at the cutting edge of translating promising but labor- and time-intensive technologies into easily replicable and commercially viable products. One of Jake’s projects at the Center, which led to a paper in Applied Physics Letters, involves fabricating material films that could be used to create a tunable inductor. He has also completed research co-ops at a startup, Nano-C, and at Draper Laboratory, a private nonprofit research center. Outside the lab, Jake has devoted over 100 hours per year to youth mentoring as a coach for Mission Hill Little League and a Big Brother, and he has served as vice president of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. He is a member of our Honors Program.
We congratulate these wonderful students on their accomplishments, and we are proud to have them represent Northeastern as applicants for the Rhodes and Marshall Scholarships.