BOSTON– Mansi Jain, a software engineering student and data analytics enthusiast at the Northeastern University, won two awards at RISE:2016, the university’s Research, Innovation, and Scholarship Expo, according to News at Northeastern.
Industry leaders judged some 400 projects, which detailed the work of more than 900 Northeastern students and faculty. The judges submitted their ratings and the top award winners were recognized at an afternoon reception in East Village, according to the News.
“We are very proud of you,” President Joseph E. Aoun said in addressing the award recipients as quoted by the News. “I was talking to some of the judges and they were mentioning the passion. Some were talking about the bigger ideas that they saw.”
Here are this year’s award winners:
RISE Awards
Excellence in Research: Mansi Jain: Automated Diagnostic System for Gastric Cancer
Excellence in Innovation: John de la Parra: Biosynthesis of Plant-Derived Pharmaceuticals
Excellence in Scholarship: Sarah Solomon: Housing the Boston Homeless
Greatest Entrepreneurial Potential: Colin Bernardo: 3D Scanning of Neuroanatomical Structures
Graduate Innovator Award: Joshua Martin: Developing Hierarchically Reinforced Composites Vi
Best Video Pitch: Jacob Ganley: Functionalizing Antibodies Using Flow Chemistry
Outstanding Student Research Awards
Computer and Information Sciences
Undergraduate: Keith Harrigian: Anonymity and Gender Inference on Reddit
Graduate: Mansi Jain: Automated Diagnostic System for Gastric Cancer
Engineering and Technology
Undergraduate: Quan Do: A Sensor-Based App for Video Game Play
Graduate: Joshua Martin: Developing Hierarchically Reinforced Composites Vi
Health Sciences
Undergraduate: Alyssa Long: Pharmacy Student Interactions with Minority Groups
Graduate: Julie Goff: Gross Motor Group Effects on Children with ASD
Humanities and Arts
Undergraduate: Sarah Solomon: Housing the Boston Homeless
Graduate: Joseph di Bella: Re-thinking Structure
Physical and Life Sciences
Undergraduate: Joseph Chung: Development of a Fluorescent Western Blot of CFTR
Graduate: John de la Parra: Biosynthesis of Plant-Derived Pharmaceuticals
Social Sciences, Business, and Law
Undergraduate: Amelie Desrosiers: Pathways to Progress
Graduate: Matthew Murry: Attachment and Emotion Perception Across Adulthood
Interdisciplinary Topics
Undergraduate: Shawn Jones: Triton SCUBA Diving Prosthetic
Graduate: Michael Williams: Human in the Loop Debris Collection