ChE Student Receives 2025 Hodgkinson Award
Madeline Szoo, E’25, chemical engineering and biochemistry, is the recipient of a Harold D. Hodgkinson Achievement Award for 2025, one of the highest honors a senior can receive.
Szoo, who has a passion for cancer research and STEM education, became involved in scientific research following her grandmother’s experience with terminal triple-negative breast cancer. She completed co-ops at three organizations including Beam Therapeutics; the CaNCURE Program in the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School with Tayyaba Hasan, professor of dermatology; and in the lab of MIE Assistant Professor Cynthia Hajal, which was funded by an AJC Merit Research Scholarship. She also conducted research with ChE Professor Debra Auguste and ChE Associate Professor Ryan Koppes. Szoo enjoys reading and is the president of the Northeastern University Chapter of Sigma Xi, The International Scientific Research Honor Society.
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