Award winners were announced Nov. 18 by the Graduate School and the Office of the Vice President for Research following three days of professional development events, a keynote, and a virtual networking session.
Michael Moy spent the summer working at NASA, applying math to communication and navigation in space flights.
Brandon Paez is a third-year clinical and counseling psychology student at Colorado State University, the student chair of the President’s Multicultural Student Advisory Committee, and, at his core, a change maker.
Mariel Price received the Graduate Women in Science Fellowship to aid in research toward transforming plastics using light-driven methods
While SACNAS was initially meant to bring representation to a few minority groups, it has evolved to become inclusive of all minoritized groups in STEM.
Student success in precalculus math has long been the mission of the PACe center (Paced Algebra to Calculus electronically.) Now, with a new name – the Precalculus Center – an updated physical space, and programming built on the latest research in the science of learning, this mission will continue with full force.
Two psychology majors participated in the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Program this year: Corey Simpson and Nikki Wasinger.
Ana Ibarra, a first-generation student in the Department of Biology, was able to conduct remote research in the REU program
Koch has been at the forefront of policy since the 2016 elections. Despite the challenge of political activism, she recognized a need to bridge the political and scientific worlds, and she attempted to fill it.
Ariana Mims is shaping the future of computer science by paving the way for other women and people of color.