Students on the Move | October 2021
Fifth-year HEOP student Martin Sosa is a recipient of the Entegris Foundation STEM Student Support Scholarship. Established in 2021, the Entegris Foundation STEM Student Support Fund provides support to an RIT undergraduate student who is an active student leader and is in a STEM-related major, among other things. Sosa will be able to connect with members of the Entegris Foundation via university planned events and develop a connection with Entegris Foundation, Incorporated.
Congratulations to Diksha Biswa, a 2020 HEOP graduate, who started med school at West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine.
Abigail Reigner completed a virtual internship with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory over the summer. She worked in the division of Spacecraft Mechanical Engineering, specifically in mechanical ground support equipment (MGSE) and in planning the Mars Sample Return Lander, which is set to launch later this decade. Reigner was recruited for the internship by an engineer who saw her resume in the AISES database. Reigner says, “Working on Mars SRL really opened my eyes to the great research that space exploration contributes to. I often wondered what the point of it all was - and now I know. The more we know about space and the other bodies in our solar system, the better we can understand Earth.” Reigner is a third year student, studying mechanical engineering and science, technology and public policy under the Accelerated Dual Degree program.
LSAMP student Patrick Edwards was awarded a Benjamin A. Gilman Scholarship to study abroad and is at the University of Oxford in England this fall. Ndidi Chimah, won the Gilman scholarship in 2020.
Congratulations to several other LSAMP and McNair students and MCC LSAMP students who conducted in-person research this summer. In July, Kelsey Beers, Erika Fernandez, Safiya Gazali, Johnathan Lu, Trinity McFadden, Pyar Mo, Katelyn Osbre, Martin Sosa, Brandon Stoyanovich, Alberto Tabares-Galarza, Joseph Vasquez, Renzo Vizarreta, Tommy Wu, and Zhi Heng Shi presented their research at RIT’s Undergraduate Research Symposium. This fall there are 11 students conducting in-person lab research with RIT faculty across campus.
RIT’s Upward Bound program is offering support and guidance to ten students who are currently attending SUNY Geneseo, Howard University, LeMoyne, Alfred Tech, Monroe Community College, Roberts Wesleyan, University of Buffalo and Georgia State. Four of the students started as 9th graders, the other six entered the program as sophomores in high school. They remain in Upward Bound until their sophomore year of college.