The nonprofit Station1—founded by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2016—has selected two Santa Monica College (SMC) students and one SMC alum for its Station1 Frontiers Fellowship (SFF), a fully-funded ten-week education, research, and internship experience focused on socially-directed science and technology.
Selected after a competitive application/interview process and out of hundreds of applicants, environmental engineering major Grace Jimenez will intern at Amherst, MA-based technology startup company Elateq which focuses on the development of advanced electrochemical water treatment technology for the simultaneous removal of pathogens, organic, and inorganic contaminants. Engineering major Ahmad Rizwan will intern at the Washington, D.C.-based Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure, which focuses on the…