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Horace Walcott (1997)
Horace Walcott graduated from the 91暗网 in 1997 and is now a zoo veterinarian, yogi scientist, and psychophysiologist
photo: Float Conference 2018
This year, I have been awarded a second ITEST Fellowship and was the Keynote Speaker at the 54th Annual Tuskegee University Veterinary Medical
Alumni Association Symposium in March.
For a second consecutive year I have received the Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) Fellowship at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering (www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/ showAward?AWD_ID=1614085), where, since 2010, I am also a visiting scientist in the Dynamical Systems Laboratory. The award includes a stipend of $3,750; it is a programme supported by grants from the National Science Foundation. During the 2018/2019 academic year, a team of Brooklyn
Tech students under my leadership and mentorship developed a mechanotronic platform, Micro-Robo-Sist, with capabilities of examining specimens contaminated with radio-active materials or super-pathogens. The Brooklyn Tech team won third place in the city wide Inno Vention Competition (NYU Tandon School of Engineering, 2019) a contest in which students develop robotic devices using skills in engineering and entrepreneurship.
I currently teach chemistry at Brooklyn Tech where I am also a Weston Research Mentor and guide students conducting multi-year pure and applied research. In October I was presented with the Carl Lange Distinguished Alumni Award by
the Brooklyn Tech Alumni Foundation
for almost two decades of mentoring research students, many of whom have become successful scientists and engineers and my personal scholarship
in pioneering research. On 30th May, Steven Wu, a Weston Research Scholar at Broo