McLean, VA – June 24, 2013 – Fifty-one top achieving U.S. scholars, including three Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) scholars, and thirty international scholars will attend the 30th annual Research Science Institute (RSI), jointly sponsored with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from June 23rd – August 3rd. RSI is a six-week intensive program that provides students with the opportunity to conduct original, cutting edge research in state-of-the-art university laboratories, hospitals and corporate research facilities.
The RSI Selection Committee, comprised of professional educators and RSI alumni, convened at the Center for Excellence in Education (CEE) in mid- February 2013 to select fifty-one of this nation’s top achieving high school students to attend the nationally recognized program. Students selected for RSI are exemplary as based on the following criteria: high school records, personal essays, standardized test scores, teacher recommendations, research experience, potential for leadership, and honors and awards in math and science.
RSI is offered cost-free by CEE to competitively selected top achieving students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). RSI scholars participate in college-level research under the mentorship of leading scientists, engineers, and researchers in the Boston area.
Dr. Andrew Charman, RSI ’86 alumnus and lecturer of physics at University of California, Berkeley, will again lead RSI 2013. The students, dubbed “Rickoids” after the late Admiral H.G. Rickover, father of the nuclear Navy and founder of the Center with CEE President Joann DiGennaro, will study pure and applied mathematics, physical and biological science, economics, and humanities. The RSI Academic Professors include:
- Dr. Steven Byrnes, RSI’02, Harvard University – Physics
- Dr. Steven Leeb, Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Engineering
- Dr. Forrest Michael, RSI’90, University of Washington - Chemistry
- Dr. Sean Mulholland, Economics, Stonehill College
- Dr. Yi-Ching Ong, RSI’98, Columbia University - Biology
- Mr. Lance Rhoades, University of Washington - Humanities
- Dr. Christopher Skinner, RSI’88, Princeton University - Math
“RSI is an esteemed program that provides top achieving high school students the opportunity to experience graduate level research at MIT,” said Joann P. DiGennaro, CEE’s President. “RSI has nearly 2000 successful alumni with an 80% STEM career retention rate of the alumni.”
RSI is an annual educational, summer program which consists of one week of theoretical classroom work, followed by four-and-a-half weeks of research with a professor or research scientist in the students’ respective areas of interest. In the final week, students demonstrate their work through written academic papers and present oral findings to their peers and a panel of judges.
STEM leaders share knowledge through the RSI Distinguished Guest Lecture Series. Three Nobel Prize winners will address the students to include: Dr. Dudley Herschbach, Harvard Professor Emeritus; Dr. Phillip Sharp, Institute Professor (highest academic rank) at MIT and member of the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research; and Dr. Wolfgang Ketterle, John D. MacArthur Professor of Physics at MIT and Associate Director of the Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT, Director, MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms. The RSI scholars learn about the careers, achievements, and challenges of the STEM environment and also participate in question and answer sessions with these innovative speakers.
Thirty international students will join the U.S. students from Australia, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Israel, Lebanon, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden Switzerland, Turkey, and the United Kingdom at RSI 2013.
About the Center for Excellence in Education
The Center for Excellence in Education was founded in 1983 by the late Admiral H.G. Rickover and Joann P. DiGennaro, President of the Center. The Center's mission is to nurture high school and university scholars to careers of excellence and leadership in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, and to encourage collaboration between and among leaders in the global community. CEE sponsors the Research Science Institute (RSI), the USA Biology Olympiad (USABO), and the Teacher Enrichment Program (TEP). For more information about the Center and its programs, visit CEE’s Web site, www.cee.org
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