Grace En Xie

STEM Scholarship Recipient, 2025

Grace En Xie, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, is from Lawrence, KS. A member of the Class of 2027, she is majoring in Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences (MMSS), Data Science, and Economics. Since her freshman year, she has been a research assistant in Northwestern’s Spatial Thinking and Representations (STAR) Lab, contributing to a meta-analysis on mental rotation in young children. She presented this work at the annual Midwestern Psychological Association Conference, sharing findings on how stimuli influence children’s spatial performance. Building on this foundation, she served as a research intern focusing on healthcare policy, where she developed a model quantifying the costs of criminalizing homelessness to support human rights advocacy groups. This experience deepened her commitment to applying economic methods to inform public health policy. Beyond academics, Grace is an executive board member of several student-run dance organizations at Northwestern.