Ten high school teams – including six from Fort Wayne Community Schools – are expected to compete in a regional pitch competition Thursday at Purdue University Fort Wayne.
ANGOLA â Trine University honored faculty members with its annual year-end awards during a special ceremony in Fabiani Theater on Monday.
Several faculty received the McKetta-Smith Excellence in Teaching Awards, established by trustee emeritus and 1937 alumnus John J. McKetta in 1989.
The honors went to the following:
⢠Andrea Mitofsky, professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, was awarded the Prof. Gerald H. Moore Overall Excellence in Teaching Award and the Charles & Sue Ragan Gelet Excellence in Teaching Award.
⢠Martin Dygert, lecturer in the Department of Mathematics and Physics, received the Helen Smith McKetta Excellence in Teaching Award.
Michael Staude, assistant professor in the Department of Science, received the Robert Ewing & Gail Stewart Smith Excellence in Teaching Award.
ANGOLA â Following in the footsteps of Nobel Prize winners and other prominent scientists, a Trine University senior has been selected for the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program.
Arcadia, Ohio, native Alexander Pessell will graduate in May with a degree in biomedical engineering and has been accepted into the biomedical engineering Ph.D. program at Johns Hopkins University.
âThe fellowship assists me and Johns Hopkins in funding my graduate school education,â Pessell said. âIt also gives me the ability to round out my professional development through opportunities provided by the National Science Foundation.â
The oldest STEM fellowship program in the United States, the GRFP, through a competitive selection process, recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students pursuing research-based masterâs and doctoral degrees. Since its beginnings in 1952, the program has funded more than 60,000 fellowships â including ab