March 31, 2025

We're pleased to announce that Madeline Navea, psychology '25, has been awarded a 2025 Barry Goldwater Scholarship. This award recognizes top undergraduates in science, math, and engineering fields who are planning to pursue research careers and have the potential to be leaders in their fields. The scholarship provides funding for their final year or two of undergraduate study. We're so proud of Madeline, who has been highly active in research during her time at Drexel.

Madeline Navea
psychology ’25

Madeline is a junior psychology major and data science minor. Her interests lie in studying proximal risk factors of self-injurious behaviors using computational modeling and machine learning. In her time at Drexel, she has worked at the Center for Weight, Eating, and Lifestyle Science, where she has pursued over 5 independent projects, conducting computational analyses and using intensive longitudinal data to examine the underlying mechanisms and patterns of risk factors contributing to suicidal behaviors. Madeline has completed the SuperNova Undergraduate Research Fellows Program and received awards such as the Barry Goldwater Scholarship, the Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Research Fund, Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Experience Fund, the Undergraduate Research Mini-Grant, the Psychology Research Fund, and travel grants to disseminate her research and pursue other projects. Currently, she is working on her senior thesis involving a dynamic structural equation model on self-injurious urges and behaviors.

Special thanks to faculty who sat on the Goldwater Campus Committee, working with Undergraduate Research and Enrichment Programs to review and advise nominees on their applications:

Amy Throckmorton, PhD, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, BIOMED
Ramesh Garimella, PhD, Associate Teaching Professor of Mathematics, CoAS
Seena Ajit, PhD, Professor of Pharmacology & Physiology, CoM
Edward Kim, PhD, Associate Professor of Computer Science, CCI
Wesley Chang, PhD Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, CoE

We would like to send an additional thanks to those faculty members who participated in anonymous application review, providing written feedback to the candidates.

The Goldwater Scholarship was established by Congress in 1986, with the goal of recognizing the nation's top undergraduates in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math fields. The purpose of the Foundation is to provide a continuing source of highly qualified scientists, mathematicians, and engineers by awarding scholarships to college students who intend to pursue careers in these fields.

For more information about the Goldwater Scholarship, please visit the Goldwater website or contact UREP at fellowships@drexel.edu.