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Female undergraduates are hard at work throughout the Clark School, in research programs,
internship and co-op experiences, entrepreneurial opportunities, and service initiatives.
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Bioengineering senior Jenna Aidikoff received the Maryland Daily Record's 2009 Circle of Excellence Scholarship, part of the Maryland's Top 100 Women awards program. Aidikoff was selected for her exceptional scholarship in engineering, education, and the work she performed at the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, where she conducted research on Down Syndrome. |
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Alyson Blair
Alyson Blair, a fire protection engineering student has received the 2009
A. James Clark School of Engineering Dean's Award. She is a member of the University Honors
Program, the Primannum Honor Society and the National Society of Collegiate Scholars. She
is a member of the Women in Engineering Program, for which she mentored freshman female
engineering students and assisted with major events. Blair was named a 2008-2009 Merrill
Presidential Scholar. |
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Heather Bradshaw
Heather Bradshaw, a junior in Mechanical Engineering, is a
member of the Tau Beta Pi engineering honor society, Omicron Delta Kappa leadership society, and Golden
Key International Honors Society. She was a sophomore representative in the Society of Women
Engineers, has participated in Engineers Without Borders, and is engaged in a co-op position
with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center this semester, focusing on the next generation of space
suits. She is a member of the QUEST quality enhancement systems program and is a Clark School
Ambassador. Recently it was announced that Heather has won a prestigious national Goldwater
Scholarship for 2008-2009 on the basis of academic merit. In 2008 she won the Clark School’s
Kim A. Borsavage and Pamela J. Stone Student Award for Outstanding Service. |
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Tracey Epstein, bioengineering senior, received the 2009 A. James Clark School of Engineering Leadership Award, which recognizes outstanding leadership. Epstein participated in the QUEST program, in addition to the University Honors Program, Primannum Honor Society and Phi Kappa Phi. She is active with the Biological Resources Engineering Society and Alpha Omega Epsilon International Engineering Sorority. Epstein is also a member of the Clark School Ambassadors, winning the Top Ambassador award last year. |
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Ianina (Yana) Jmourko, civil and environmental engineering senior, received the Clark School's Kim A. Borsavage and Pamela J. Stone Student Award for Outstanding Service. Jmourko is an active member of Alpha Omega Epsilon, the QUEST program and the Clark School Ambassadors program. Over the last two years, she has served in a leadership role as an Ambassador coordinator, planning meetings, educating her peers and developing new workshops for high school students. |
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Senior Mechanical Engineering student Rachel Kerzner maintains an exceptional GPA, has been a member of the dean’s list for every semester of her college career, and will complete the Engineering Honors program. She is a member of the Tau Beta Pi engineering honor society and Pi Tau Sigma international mechanical engineering society. Her leadership and service are exemplary, including participation in the QUEST quality enhancement systems program, the College Park Scholars program, Clark School Ambassadors, and Women in Engineering Advisory Board, and mentoring other students for QUEST and Women in Engineering. Rachel won the A. James Clark School of Engineering Dean’s Award in 2008. |
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Chemical and biomolecular engineering sophomore Emily Lin was awarded a 2009 American Society of Plant Biologists Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship. |
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The Clark School's second annual John D. Anderson Scholarship in Aerospace Engineering has been awarded to aerospace engineering senior Breanne McNerney. |
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Michelle Morgan is a senior in Biological Resources Engineering who is completing the minor in international engineering, which is one of four Clark School available minors including Project Management, Nanoscience and Technology, and Leadership. Michelle has not only studied in Denmark and Australia, but she is one of the school’s staunchest advocates for international studies, staffing study abroad fairs, speaking at engineering information sessions and presenting international studies to engineering classes. Michelle Morgan won the A. James Clark School of Engineering International Student Award in 2008. |
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Tenaya Prince, a mechanical engineering senior, was the Region 2 First Place Winner among undergraduate students in the Technical Research Regional Showcase sponsored by the National Society of Black Engineers for her research on embedded resistors and her paper, “Trimming of Embedded Resistors: 3D Electrical Modeling.” |
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Senior Electrical Engineering student Khadijeh has worked for the Office of Undergraduate Advising and Academic Support since 5/22/06, and is a member of Tau Beta Phi. Khadijeh has accepted an internship to work with GE during summer 2008. Khadijeh Vahdat is the quintessential student employee who understands the importance of her position within the Clark School of Engineering and is truly dedicated to helping her fellow colleagues achieve academically. She was a nominee for the Undergraduate Student Employee as well for the Student Affairs Scholarship.
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