The Register Citizen (Torrington, CT)
STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT
Students finish bioscience, health research fellowships
FARMINGTON — Tunxis Community College students James Greene of Waterbury and Tram Nguyen of Bristol joined more than 70 college students from other Connecticut colleges and universities for “Innovation Fellows Research Day” at UConn Health on Aug. 1 to present findings from 10-week funded summer research fellowships.
The event was part of a consortium called the Partnership for Innovation and Education, providing students with opportunities to work with faculty mentors and focus on hands-on research that could lead to future therapies, diagnostics, devices or services.
Tunxis is the only community college in the consortium of seven Connecticut higher education PIE partners, led by the University of Connecticut.
Nguyen gave a short talk on her research on the variability in human iron metabolism, which aimed to verify whether a computational model could be widely
applied to the entire population by comparing simulation results to published research findings.
Using different software platforms, Greene, an engineering science major, generated diagrams that show interactions in different molecular pathways, illustrating both overall pathways and detailed changes at the molecular level. Greene presented a poster at the symposium detailing his work, and expects to graduate from Tunxis in May 2019.
Bakker Named GNAC Runner of the Week
NEW LONDON, N.H. – ColbySawyer junior Peter Bakker, a resident of Barkhamsted, has been named the Great Northeast Athletic Conference Men’s Cross Country Runner of the Week.
Bakker led the Colby-Sawyer men to a second place finish at the inaugural Charger Invitational held at the newly dedicated Morris Trail. He finished third overall with a time of 16:27.40 to pace the Chargers.
New students join the Castleton community
CASTLETON, VT — The following local students began their first semester at Castleton College, Castleton, Vermont, this month.
Allison Andrade of Thomaston; Millicent Hope Dito of Torrington; and Kyle White of Torrington.
Local students receive scholarships
NEW BRITAIN — Eight local students were recently awarded the Robert T. Kenney Scholarship from the American Savings Foundation for the 2018-2019 academic year.
The recipients are: Erika Borja, a student at Northwestern Connecticut Community College; Michaela Cisowski, attending the University of Maine; Logan P. Connor, a student at Unity College; Johanna P. Idrovo-Sarmiento, attending Quinnipiac University; Paulina Koloda, a student at the University of Saint Joseph; Adam X. Lamothe, attending the College of the Holy Cross; Sydney A. Mourges, a student at the University of Tennessee- Knoxville; and Madison M. Woiten, attending Parsons The New School for Design.
This year, the American Savings Foundation announced a total of $780,000 in scholarships for 389 recipients of the Robert T. Kenney Scholarship for the 20182019 academic year. This includes both first-time recipients and those receiving renewals of the scholarship.
“These eight students represent the best of the Robert T. Kenney Scholarship program,” said Maria Falvo, President & CEO of American Savings Foundation, in a written statement. “We see this as an investment in our scholars, who are future leaders in the community.”
The American Savings Foundation is a permanent charitable endowment that also awards grants to area nonprofits. Since its inception, the foundation has contributed over $55 million in total grants and scholarships in central Connecticut. Scholarships are awarded to students from the 64 Connecticut towns served by the foundation.