Catherine Choi

Graduate Fellowship Recipient, 2025

Catherine Choi majored in Biological Sciences as an undergraduate and was selected for the highly competitive Accelerated Master’s Program in Public Health in her senior year. She was on the Dean’s List multiple quarters, as well as an Alumnae Undergraduate Research Scholar. Catherine is fluent in Korean and has intermediate proficiency in Latin. She received a summer internship three years in a row, a Weinberg College Summer Research Grant, a STEM Scholarship in 2023 from The Alumnae of Northwestern University and participated in volunteer and service projects. After her mother’s diagnosis of breast cancer, Catherine noted, “I spent a decade earning how to morph myself into the role that the times called for – a caregiver, a medical interpreter, a researcher, a patient advocate, as student – and had a sharper focus for my future studies.” One recommender stated that Catherine has expressed interest in the possibility of an MD degree with a career in clinical medicine in the future. She stated that this “reflects her intellectual curiosity and openness to the range of future possibilities.”