Student Spotlight: Marshall Scholarship Winner Inn-Inn Chen
An extraordinary College of Engineering undergrad
Inn Inn Chen in her lab in the Petit Biotechnology Building.
We all know that Georgia Tech students are outstanding, but currently one College of Engineering undergraduate, Inn-Inn Chen, a junior in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, is standing out among the rest.
Inn-Inn was recently awarded a Marshall Scholarship for study at any university in the United Kingdom. The Marshall Scholarship program is highly competitive with only 40 given in the U.S. each year. Inn-Inn has chosen to go to Oxford. The Marshall Scholarship will support two years of her post-baccalaureate studies. Prior to receiving a Marshall Scholarship, Inn-Inn had been awarded a Goldwater Scholarship to support her undergraduate studies in biomedical engineering at Georgia Tech. Inn-Inn has been working as an undergraduate student researcher in the laboratory of Associate Professor Julia Babensee since the fall of 2005. The challenging project she is working on is in a novel area of biomaterials research for use in medical devices. It is expected that Inn-Inn’s studies will lead to the development of biomaterials with improved integration into the patient for better acceptance and function of medical devices. This research is at the cutting edge of immunology, and Inn-Inn is in a position to make a unique contribution to the field of biomaterials, immunology and carbohydrate chemistry.
Quick Stats:
» Undergraduate Enrollment: 775
» Graduate Enrollment: 266
» Number of Full-time Teaching Faculty: 24
Key Research Areas:
» Cardiovascular Mechanics and Biology
» Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering
» Neuroengineering
» Biomedical Imaging and Bioinformatics/Biomedical Systems Analysis
» Cellular and Biomolecular Engineering
» Health Systems
Not only is Inn-Inn an outstanding researcher, she is also a demonstrated leader. As the founding president of Georgia Tech’s chapter of Engineering World Health (EWH), a student organization dedicated to helping third world countries improve their health care facilities, and as chair of President’s Council Governing Board, and treasurer of Biomedical Engineering Society student chapter at Georgia Tech, Inn-Inn’s leadership skills are truly impressive. She was recently recognized by Georgia Tech’s Women’s Leadership Conference as one of the 2007 Women of Distinction.
Inn-Inn was selected from among 600 students and named to the third team of USA Today's All-USA College Academic Team. Students were nominated by their home institutions and will receive trophies and monetary awards. Inn Inn, the only Georgia Tech awardee, was recognized for her work in repairing donated medical equipment for use in the developing world and for her role in the development of a solar-powered refrigerator to store vaccines.
Students, like Inn-Inn, are the reason Georgia Tech is one of the nation’s leading educational institutions in engineering.