Student Profile
Benjamin Moran
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Moran, Benjamin
Hall of Fame
  • Barry Goldwater Scholarship 2017
    Premiere undergraduate scholarship support for students with demonstrated ability in STEM research.
  • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Ernest F. Hollings Scholarship 2015
    The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Ernest F. Hollings (Hollings) scholarship program is designed to increase undergraduate training in oceanic and atmospheric science, research, technology, and education and foster multidisciplinary training opportunities; increase public understanding and support for stewardship of the ocean and atmosphere and improve environmental literacy; recruit and prepare students for public service careers with NOAA and other natural resource and science agencies at the federal, state and local levels of government; and recruit and prepare students for careers as teachers and educators in oceanic and atmospheric science and to improve scientific and environmental education in the United States.
  • National Geographic Young Explorers Grant 2017
    National Geographic Young Explorers Grants provide aspiring professionals up to $5,000 for field research, conservation and exploration projects, including those that investigate unproven approaches. A committee comprised of experts from around the world evaluate the grant proposals.
  • Summer Scholars Independent Research Fellowship (SSIRF) 2017
    The SSIRF award supports original, student-initiated independent research, creative performance, and project-making in close collaboration with a faculty mentor.
    Project Title: "Aggressive Mimicry as a Driver for Marine Sympatric Speciation"
    Mentor: Lotterhos, Kathleen
  • Knight-Hennessy Fellowship for Advanced Study at Stanford 2019
    A fully-funded graduate education at Stanford for visionary leaders.

About

A native of Minerva, OH, Benjamin Moran has been fascinated by ocean life. His passion started through reading and visiting aquariums, and blossomed in classes on oceanography and aquatic biology. When he got to Northeastern, he wasted no time before getting involved in research lab projects and public policy with the Marine Science Center. Moran delved further into his studies of marine biology by participating in Northeastern’s prestigious Three Seas Program, allowing him to study on San Juan Island, Washington, at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Bocas del Toro in the Caribbean Sea, and in the tropical ecosystem of Panama.

In his second year, Moran was awarded the Ernest F. Hollings Scholarship by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Using this two-year stipend, he hoped to fuse molecular biology, ecology, and fisheries science.