President's IQP Awards given out
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by Joe Frawley
News Editor |
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At 9am on Wednesday, January 24, President Parrish handed out awards to the top five IQPs at Higgins House. The projects that would receive these awards were announced on December 6th. The judges for the awards were President Parrish; John Zeugner, WPI professor of history; Caspar Wenk, Dean of the Institute of Animal Nutrition at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology; Thomas Rozzell, Director of fellowship at the National Academies-National Research Council; and Elye Pitts of the Africa-America Institute.
The first place project was completed at the Costa Rica project center. The students, Abel Alvarez-Calderon and Karen Kosinski, created a manual to help fish-farmers become more efficient and profitable. The manual helps teach fish farmers about fish feeding, development, and breeding. The students now plan to translate that manual for use in other countries.
Two project groups were awarded second place. One of these projects was completed in Costa Rica. Shauna Malone, W. Lucas Churchill, Jimmy Cook, and Felix Rieper worked with the Costa Rican National Fire Department to help them with communication during emergencies. Their recommendation was to use GIS, which is a computer-based system that combines maps and demographic data. The other second place project was conducted in London. The Royal Hospital for Neurodisability sponsored a project where Steven Meyer, Daniel Erickson, Ruben Brito, and Joanna Cosimini had to look at the stressful working environment at the hospital.
Two project groups were awarded third place. One of these projects was completed in London by Christopher Holt, Micah Kiffer, and Keith Peterson. For their project, the students devised a system to make important historical papers more accessible to scholars at a London museum. The other third place project was completed by Justin D. Greenough, Stephanie D. Janeczko, and Thomas J. Pfeiffer at the Bangkok, Thailand project center. The team members assessed the financial, political, health and social impacts of a relocation program in Thailand.
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