Jaahnavi Kandula, the Indian student who was struck and killed by a speeding police car here will be awarded her master’s degree posthumously, the Chancellor of Northeastern University has announced, hoping that the ongoing probe will bring a measure of justice and accountability.

Kandula was set to graduate this coming December with a master’s degree in information systems from the Seattle campus of Northeastern University. Her family said she was working toward supporting her mother in India. She was struck by a police vehicle driven at more than 119 km/hr on the way to a report of a drug overdose call.