McLean, Va. (January 10, 2023) – The Center for Excellence in Education (CEE) is pleased to announce that Sílvia Casacuberta Puig, a 2017 alumna of CEE’s Research Science Institute (RSI), has been selected as an international Rhodes Scholar.
“Sílvia personifies excellence professionally and personally,” said Joann P. DiGennaro, CEE President. “The Center is so proud of her continued achievements.”
Originally from Barcelona, Sílvia Casacuberta Puig is a senior at Harvard studying a joint concentration in Mathematics and Computer Science with a secondary in Philosophy and a concurrent masters in Computer Science. She recently was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She has conducted research at MIT, Imperial College London, ETH Zurich, IBM Research, and Harvard and named John Harvard Scholar. She was co-president of Gender Inclusivity in Mathematics, co-academics director of Women in Computer Science, and president of Circle of Women. She plays the violin in the Harvard Baroque Orchestra, Mozart Society Orchestra, and Harvard College Opera.
The Rhodes Scholarship is a fully funded, full time, postgraduate award which enables talented young people from around the world to study at the University of Oxford. Casacuberta intends to eventually earn a PhD, looks forward to advancing her computer science studies.
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CEE, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) charitable organization, 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 (STEM), and to encourage collaboration between and among scientific and technological leaders in the global community. CEE sponsors the Research Science Institute (RSI), USA Biolympiad (USABO), Teacher Enrichment Program (TEP), and STEM Lyceums. CEE programs are provided cost-free to participating students and teachers. For more information, visit www.cee.org.
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