Northeastern Celebrates Nine Knight-Hennessy Scholarship Nominees

November 4, 2025 | by Carey Accola

Knight-Hennessy Scholars develops a community of future global leaders to address complex challenges through collaboration and innovation. Every year, up to 100 high-achieving students from around the world will receive full funding to pursue any graduate degree at Stanford, including the JD, MA, MBA, MD, MFA, MS, and PhD programs, as well as joint- and dual-degrees. Knight-Hennessy Scholars is the largest fully endowed scholars program in the world.

This year we are proud to nominate nine Huskies for the Knight-Hennessy Scholarship. Read more about this year’s nominees below.

Druhi Bhargava, COE’24, Computer Engineering

Mentors: Taylor Zahn, Erhardt Graeff

Chiara Blake, COS’25, Behavioral Neuroscience

Mentors: Melanie Brennan, Adrianna Crossing, Linda Ayrapetov, Sydney Aten, Jerome Roger

Amanda Ferrante, COE’26, Bioengineering and Biochemistry

Mentors: Mona Minkara, Mohammad Abbas Yaseen, Ning Wang, Samantha Atkins, Bonnie Teng

Kevin Giordano, COE/COS’26, Mechanical Engineering and Physics

Mentors: Andrew Gouldstone, Mehdi Abedi, Baris Altunkaynak, Brent Lawson, Sofia Varner

Pratika Katiyar, DMSB’24, Business and Social Sciences

Mentors: Ryan Ellis, Rebecca Williams, Jeb Sharp, Kendra Albert, Taylor Lorenz

Sophie Pyrah, COS’26, Biochemistry

Mentors: Jude Mathews, Yanjing Li, Don O’Malley, Leigh Plant, Lori Ferrins

Victoria Robbins, COE’22, Chemical Engineering

Mentors: Brian Lejeune, Zach Favors, Amruth Bhargav

Nishita Roy, COE’26, Bioengineering

Mentors: Marc Rischitelli, Zheng Ao, Sarah Niemi, Xin Tang, Timothy Lannin

Zhenming Yang, COE’26, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Mentors: Gregory Abowd, Giovanni Traverso, Alex Wright