Congrats to four El Camino students who recently received $2,500 scholarships after completing the prestigious Center for Translational Applications of Nanoscale Multiferroic Systems (TANMS) Research Experience and Mentoring (REM) program. Ana Venerio, Jesus Fuentes, Javier Paz-Guerrero, and Yaxhel Lozoya each participated in the REM program, which pairs high school and community college students in research teams to carry out a research project related to nanoscale investigations within the TANMS Engineering Research Center at UCLA. Each team was matched with a graduate student or postdoc mentor who offered guidance in a research project. Students learned to use software to organize and analyze data for modeling purposes within a specified research project. The REM program was offered online from October 2020 through January 2021 due to UCLA's COVID-related campus closure.
Venerio also received the TANMS Elija S. Robinson Award for Inspiration, Integrity, and Scholarly Promise in Engineering for her research project on "Ferromagnetic Resonance Enhanced Electrically Small Antennas." She, her high school project partner, and their TANMS advisers presented their research at the national 2021 Virtual REM Conference earlier this year.