Nare Parseghian: 2025 Jack Welch Scholar
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Nare Parseghian, a biomedical engineering major with a minor in engineering management, is a 2025 Jack Welch Scholar who received a merit scholarship funded by the GE Foundation and was honored during the undergraduate commencement ceremony at McGuirk Alumni Stadium on Friday, May 16.
The award is named in honor of alumnus Jack Welch, who drew upon his UMass undergraduate education in chemical engineering to forge a legendary career as a business leader, serving for two decades as chairman and chief executive officer of
General Electric.
Over the past four years, Parseghian has embraced academic challenges by taking demanding electives and graduate-level courses, which have strengthened her technical skills and confidence as an engineer. Under the mentorship of professors Karen Giuliano and Frank Sup, she completed her honors thesis project in the Elaine Marieb Center for Nursing and Engineering Innovation, where she designed and prototyped a chest tube holder to assist nurses in improving patient care.
Parseghian applied her engineering skills and gained invaluable real-world experience as a design quality engineer intern at Haemonetics, a medical device company in Boston, where she worked on a risk management project for a hemostasis analyzer, among other responsibilities.
She has also served as president of the Armenian Students Association Executive Board since her junior year, fostering community among Armenian and non-Armenian students across the Five College Consortium as well as organizing meaningful cultural events, such as the annual khorovats party.
After graduating from UMass Amherst, Parseghian will pursue a career in the medical technology industry and further her education by attending graduate school.