This fall, new PhD students from around the world arrived on the Chicago campus to join the Driskill Graduate Program in the Life Sciences (DGP), Northwestern University Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN), Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP), Clinical Psychology PhD program, Doctor of Physical Therapy/PhD program and Health Sciences Integrated PhD (HSIP) Program.
DGP welcomes 26 new PhD students. This group includes individuals with undergraduate degrees from schools as close as the Midwest, and as far away as China, Colombia and Italy. These students will complete courses and lab rotations during the first year, which allow them to explore several types of research before selecting a dissertation lab and project.
The new NUIN students hail from across the United States including California and Oregon to New York and Baltimore. The entering class is comprised of 17 PhD candidates.
The MSTP welcomes 13 new students who will earn both their MD and PhD degree at Northwestern. They will complete two years of medical school before starting their doctoral program in a lab. Once they earn their PhD, they will return to medical school to complete their Doctor of Medicine degree. This year’s entering class has earned undergraduate degrees from institutions that include Stanford University, Cornell University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Seven new students are beginning the Clinical Psychology PhD program. They will spend six years at Feinberg for training in the clinical practice and science of psychology, along with specific training needed for careers as clinical psychologists conducting research and/or clinical work in academic medical centers or other healthcare settings. Students in this year’s class come from near and far, including Georgia, Connecticut, Indiana and Illinois.
The DPT-PhD (Eng) program welcomed one new student, Allison Bingqing Wang, who will earn both her Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) degree and PhD in biomedical engineering at Northwestern. She will complete two years of engineering school before starting the DPT program at Feinberg. Once she earns her DPT, she will return to engineering to complete the PhD degree. This year’s entering student earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Rochester.
Finally, four new students join the HSIP program to become its fourth entering class. Founded in 2012 and unique to Northwestern, HSIP trains students in processes and methodologies in clinical and population sciences through the Institute for Public Health and Medicine. The class comes from Nigeria, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, and all previously earned master’s degrees.
Congratulations to all the new PhD students in these programs:
Driskill Graduate Program in the Life Sciences
Emma Baar
Shurui Bian
Jackson Campbell
Letonia Copeland-Hardin
Yu Deng
Natalya Diaz
Chuan Zhi Foo
Colleen Furey
Yucheng Gao
Daniel Giraldo Perez
Ashley Haluck-Kangas
Marihan Hegazy
Neil Kuehnle
Christian Marinaccio
Elena Montauti
Seo Park
Tess Pottinger
Ziyou Ren
Madeline Rollins
Marisol Romero Tejeda
Christia Sison
Denise Tarnowski
Malini Krishna Vangipuram Suresh
Kelsey Wiles
Marina Zakharevich
Yizhen Zhong
Northwestern Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program
Jess Brooks
Jose Canton-Josh
Beth Daley
Schnaude Dorizan
Aaron Earley
Rummi Ganguly
Bryan Karlovitz
Sam Kang
Ed Kim
Lisa Miller
Matthew Mullen
Miguel Ramirez
Admir Resulaj
Iva Stojkovska
David Swygart
Kristen Warren
Hayley White
Medical Scientist Training Program
Prarthana Dalal
Celestia Fang
Michael Iorga
Dalton Kim
Sophia Li
Jenny Lui
Mallika Modak
Constantine Nicolozakes
Caleb Pitcairn
Lynn Ren
Michael Scott
Anna Shangguan
Benjamin Weidemann
Clinical Psychology PhD Program
Meredith Craven
Livia Guadagnoli
Sara Hoffman
Elizabeth Kaiser
Noel Slesinger
Virginia Terwilliger
Jennifer Gowins
DPT- PhD (Eng)
Allison Bingqing Wang
Health Sciences Integrated PhD Program
Maxwell Akanbi
Sarah Bassett
Ariel Chandler
Andrew Wang
