Senior Connie Cheng awarded the 2007 Colonel and Mrs. S.S. Dennis, III Scholarship

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - April 9, 2008 – On behalf of the New York City Post of the Society of American Military Engineers (SAME), Harvard College senior Connie Cheng '08 has been awarded the 2007 Colonel and Mrs. S.S. Dennis, III Scholarship in recognition of her hard work and dedication to research.

At a ceremony in Pierce Hall, Venkatesh Narayanamurti, dean of the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, presented Cheng with a certificate of accomplishment and a scholarship check for $1,000 from SAME. The organization 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.

Cheng, a 2008 candidate for the S.B. degree in Engineering Sciences (focus on biological/biomedical engineering), is originally from the Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota area. At Harvard she has served as a research assistant for faculty members Debra Auguste, Assistant Professor of Bioengnieering, and David Edwards, Professor of the Practice of Bioenginering. In addition, she was a participant in the 2005 iGEM competition and is on the Executive Board of the Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society.

Cheng has received the Clemens Herschel Prize (2007); was named a Harvard College Scholar (2005); and won the Detur Book Prize (2005). Her hobies include piano, debate, and tennis.