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Harvard Senior Christine Susan Mulvey Awarded the 2003 Colonel and Mrs. S.S. Dennis, III Scholarship
$1,000 prize recognizes outstanding academic achievements by an undergraduate in engineering sciences
Cambridge, Mass. - February 12, 2004 - On behalf of the New York City Post of the Society of American Military Engineers (SAME), Harvard College senior Christine Susan Mulvey has been awarded the 2003 Colonel and Mrs. S.S. Dennis, III Scholarship in recognition of her hard work and dedication to research.
On February 12, 2004 at a ceremony in Pierce Hall, Venkatesh Narayanamurti, Dean of the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Dean of Physical Sciences at Harvard University, will present her with a certificate of accomplishment and a scholarship check for $1,000.
Ms. Mulvey, a 2004 candidate for the S.B. degree in Engineering Sciences with a concentration in Bioengineering, is from Canton, Massachusetts and graduated from Canton High School in 2000. Her father serves as principal of the school and her mother teaches physiology at Milton High School. She has two sisters (one her twin and one younger) who study at Boston University and Boston College respectively.
Her primary academic interest is the study of bone mechanics, or discovering how bones move and respond to stimuli. For her senior design project, Ms. Mulvey is working on a spinal testing device in consultation with the Orthopedic Biomechanics Lab at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, where she interned during the summer of 2003. After graduating, she plans to pursue an academic career.
At Harvard, Ms. Mulvey resides in Dunster House, serves on the yearbook staff, and is a member of both the Harvard Society of Engineers and Women in Science at Harvard-Radcliffe. In addition to being an avid Red Sox fan, her hobbies include playing video games, reading, and doing crafts.
About Harvard Engineering and Applied Sciences
The Harvard Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences is dedicated to the pursuit of interdisciplinary education and research in science and technology. By providing a rigorous scientific education while encouraging intellectual flexibility, the Division enables students to develop technical know-how within a liberal arts environment. More than a third of the senior faculty are members of the National Academies of Engineering or Sciences, the Royal Society (London), or the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. To learn more visit www.deas.harvard.edu.
About the Society of American Military Engineers
The Society of American Military Engineers has nearly 22,500 members and is dedicated to advancing individual technical knowledge and the collective engineering capabilities of governments, the uniformed services, and private industry in the interest of national defense. For more information visit www.same.org.
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