Graduating Seniors Ilana Trumble and Rees McNally Have Won College of Engineering and Applied Science’s Outstanding Graduate Awards

Two Applied Math undergraduates have won the College of Engineering and Applied Science’s outstanding graduate awards for this semester’s December graduating class.
Ilana Trumble has won the Outstanding Graduate of the College award. She has done research at the Anschutz Medical Campus with University of Colorado Cancer Center surveying mutation data of kinases, which are common targets for drugs to treat cancer patients. She has worked with Shannon Hughes in the ECEE department as part of the Discovery Learning Apprenticeship program. She says that in that apprenticeship she worked on the “reconstruction of paintings via image processing methods. Specifically, I worked to uncover lost paintings from renowned artists' reused canvases. I was able to recover hidden paintings using X-ray fluorescence imaging data of paint color chemical channels.” She also has worked in the MIT Lincoln Lab and has been a Learning Assistant for the Applied Math department for two years. Ilana plans to attend graduate school in the fall to pursue a PhD in Biostatistics.

Rees McNally has won the Outstanding Graduate for Research award. Rees is a double major in Applied Math and Engineering Physics. Rees has worked in the Colorado Space Grant Consortium on satellites for two and a half years. He has also worked in the Lawrence Livermore National Lab in California on compressed sensing and in JILA on the optical lattice clock. He is in the process of applying for grad school to pursue his PhD in Physics.