2013-14 Women's Fencing Roster
Biography
2013-14: Christian was honored at the 16th Annual Newark College of Engineering (NCE) Salute of Engineering Excellence on March 27, 2014. She earned this year's recipient of the 2014 Biomedical Engineering Department Outstanding Senior Award. Enrolled in NJIT's Albert Dorman Honors College, has a 4.0 cumulative GPA over her four-year academic career at NJIT. She will graduate in May with a biomedical engineering degree and continue her education in medical school. ...Represented NJIT at the 2014 Mid-Atlantic/South Regional Fencing Championships. ...placed 8th at the 2014 NIWFA Championships; women’s team finished 7th out of 17 schools (highest finish since competing at D1 level). ...earned NJIT Female Athlete of the Week (2/3/14). ...received the Highlander Academic Award for Women's Fencing.
2012-13: A walk-on to the NJIT women's fencing team in 2012-13, Christian earned National Intercollegiate Women's Fencing Association (NIWFA) all-Academic honors and recipient of the Joseph M. Fitzgerald Award at the 2013 Annual NJIT Athletics Banquet. ...Christian, one of several speakers at the TEDxNJIT event in 2013, shared her idea for a surgical device. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. ...she was one of two winners of the Capital One Cross Campus Challenge in February 2013 from the Office of Research & Development (Multi Stitch Device for Heartvalve Surgery) and Newark Innovation Acceleration Challenge Finalist in November 2012 (one of eight students).
Personal: Margaret Ruchita Christian. ... daughter of Christian and Rajam Mahipan. ... biomedical engineering major. ... born 8/29/92 in Bombay, India.
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