{"id":28689,"date":"2017-11-13T14:46:50","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T19:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom2\/2017\/11\/13\/methuen-resident-earns-two-necc-scholarships\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T17:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T21:15:07","slug":"methuen-resident-earns-two-necc-scholarships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom\/2017\/11\/13\/methuen-resident-earns-two-necc-scholarships\/","title":{"rendered":"Methuen Resident Earns Two NECC Scholarships"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16740\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/media-old\/2017\/11\/Han-Nguyen-of-Methuen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16740\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16740\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/media-old\/2017\/11\/Han-Nguyen-of-Methuen-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16740\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Han Nguyen of Methuen is one of the 200 NECC students to receive an NECC scholarship for the 2017\/2018 academic year.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When Han Nguyen first told her family she was trading in the family\u2019s tradition of tailoring to work in a laboratory they were skeptical, but her 4.0 GPA at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.necc.mass.edu\/\">Northern Essex Community College<\/a> has since convinced them otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>The Vietnamese native has received two scholarships &#8211; the Women of NECC Scholarship in Memory of Ann Bride and the President Emeritus Harold Bentley Memorial Scholarship &#8211; for her academic achievements. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.necc.mass.edu\/academics\/courses-programs\/areas\/liberal-arts\/general\/\">liberal arts<\/a> major is one of 200 NECC students, 32 from Methuen, to share more than $200,000 in scholarship funds raised by Northern Essex\u2019s office of institutional advancement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI deeply appreciate the financial support,\u201d said the 19-year-old. \u201cI cannot express enough my sincere gratitude for the support\u2026it truly makes a difference.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An international student, Han moved to the states at 17 and attended a Christian high school in North Carolina. She moved in with her aunt and grandmother in Methuen over a year ago and enrolled in Northern Essex\u2019s liberal arts degree program with an emphasis on math and science.<\/p>\n<p>After she graduates from NECC in May of 2018 she hopes to pursue a bachelor\u2019s degree in the sciences and eventually work in a lab for a pharmaceutical company.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI knew by the time I was 15 I did not want to be a tailor,\u201d she said. \u201cI love my parents\u2019 job and love the satisfaction shown in each customer\u2019s face\u2026my father says his job is artistic\u2026I agree with him, but I knew I would never belong to that job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t until she experienced the modern educational environment in the United States, Nguyen said, that she came to understand her educational pursuits were limitless.<\/p>\n<p>While she understands that friends and family think a career in a laboratory as isolating and boring, she sees it as an important role in the creation of new medicines for the greater community.<\/p>\n<p>In recommending her for a scholarship, NECC Mathematics professor Lori Heymans wrote, \u201cHan was a student in my Calculus I class, and has proven to be exceptional in several respects. Han is very intelligent and diligent. She proves to be a very quick study, learning the concepts of Calculus. Furthermore, her questions are always thoughtful and insightful. Not only was her class participation fantastic, but she has received excellent marks on all of her exams and assignments.\u00a0Han puts all of her efforts into her projects, and shows every sign of having real talent in mathematics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Heymans noted that Nguyen a member of the American Chemical Society, and a top 42 National Finalist for the Team America Rocketry Challenge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHan is extremely enthusiastic and she has great aspirations,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Han Nguyen first told her family she was trading in the family\u2019s tradition of tailoring to work in a laboratory they were skeptical, but her 4.0 GPA at Northern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":28691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - 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