Senior Yakov Berenshteyn receives 2009 SAME Award

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - March 2, 2010 – On behalf of the New York City Post of the Society of American Military Engineers (SAME), Harvard College senior Yakov Berenshteyn '10 has been awarded the 2009 Colonel and Mrs. S.S. Dennis, III Scholarship in recognition of his hard work and dedication to research.

During the SEAS All Hands meeting held on March 1, Cherry A. Murray, Dean of the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, presented Berenshteyn 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.

Berenshteyn is an Engineering Sciences concentrator pursuing the mechanical and materials track.

His research experience includes work on computational mechanics at the UCLA Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and he is currently a Radcliffe Institute Junior Partner in Joanna Aizenberg's Biomimetics Lab at Harvard.

Berenshteyn is passionate about the environment, recently completing an internship in the field in Northern California.

He is also a member of the Harvard Student Advisory Board for Science, led by Jeremy Bloxham, Dean of Science for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.