June 28, 2016
The Indiana Space Grant Consortium (INSGC) has awarded scholarships to four Trine University students and provided a grant for Trine students to participate in a national aircraft design competition.
Blake Trusty, a sophomore chemical engineering major from Fremont; Nicole Walters, a senior chemical engineering major from Sunbury, Ohio; Allison McCrady, a freshman biomedical engineering major from Lancaster, Ohio; and Caroline Hipskind, a sophomore mechanical engineering major from Fort Wayne will each receive a $1,500 scholarship from the Indiana Space Grant Consortium (INSGC) for study at Trine during the 2016-17 school year.
This is the second year in a row Trine has had four students win INSGC scholarships. A total of 13 Trine students have received the scholarships over the past five years.
To qualify, students must be attending an INSGC affiliate institution, be a U.S. citizen, enrolled in good standing as an undergraduate throughout the scholarship period and major in a science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM) discipline or STEM education.
INSGC also awarded James Canino, Ph.D., associate professor in the Wade Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, $5,000 to cover travel expenses for Trine students to compete in the 2017 AIAA Design Build Fly competition in Tucson, Arizona.
Student teams will design, build and demonstrate the flight capabilities of an unmanned, electric powered, radio-controlled aircraft that can best meet specified parameters of range, payload and speed.
“This will give our students the opportunity to compete against some of the best aerospace programs in the country and show them what Trine students can do,” Canino said.
The Indiana Space Grant Consortium was created in 1991 under NASA’s National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program. The Space Grant national network includes organizations working to expand opportunities for Americans to learn about and participate in NASA’s aeronautics and space projects by supporting and enhancing science and engineering education, research and public outreach efforts.
Two Trine University students — Chloe Laird, a chemical engineering major from Warsaw, Indiana, and Makenzie Amich, a forensic science major from Thorntown, Indiana — recently had the opportunity to connect with thousands of chemistry professionals and students from across the country at the American Chemical Society (ACS) national meeting in Chicago.
The Phi Eta Sigma National Honor Society recently named Trine University pre-med biology student Lauren Hillin of Charlotte, North Carolina, its Foy-Sagabiel Undergraduate Scholar Leader of the Year.
Steuben County community members are invited to join Trine University students and alumni and local businesses for Breaking the Silence Together, the university's inaugural mental health walk, beginning at 12:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 26.