NESI N|8|V Scholars 2015
Summer 2015 we were proud to welcome four Native Scholars to the MIT Summer Research Program.
Thank you MIT Dean Eboney Hearn for making NESI possible by working so closely with us~and
big thanks to the North Star STEM Alliance in partnership with the University of Minnesota for
supporting NESI 2015~!
NESI N|8|V recruits for Tribally Recognized scholars Sep-Oct. and then helps those N|8|V scholars to build
NESI folders which are shared with NESI Member institutions Nov. of that year. The research
program Directors then screens for applicants they feel would be successful if accepted into their program. We support those scholars through each step of the application process, and during their sumer visit to Boston. Other Native scholars who come to Boston for research summer experiences independent of the N|8|V pipeline are included in our NESI summer events if they make contact with us or one of our member institutions Native organizations.
Chad Auginash
*Rising senior at University of Minnesota,
Duluth
*Red Lake Nation (Ojibwe)
* MIT Summer Research:
Nanophotonics (MIT Physics) RLE ,
Prof. Marin Soljacic
*accepted to AISES Path to Future Faculty Leaders
Tory Govan
*third year, Northeastern University
*Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe
*MIT Summer Research:
Broad Institute Cancer Program, Cancer
Cell Line Factory abstract/summary of
project: Building the Next Generation of
Prostate Cancer Cell Model
~Tory Govan, Anson Peng, and Jesse Bohem
*Rising senior at University of Washington
*Tlingit and Haida Tribes
*MIT Summer Research:
Photoluminescence Engineering
(MIT Chem. Engineering) Dr. Strano and
Min Hao Wong, Plant nanobionics
publication anticipated in Nature 2015-6
Other scholar videos under construction! Please check back soon.