TEJI Graduate Fellow Martin Nisser awarded MIT's Collier Medal
TEJI Graduate Fellow Martin Nisser awarded MIT’s Collier Medal by Sally Kornbluth, MIT President.
From MIT Human Resources:
The Collier Medal honors those who personify Officer Sean Collier’s extraordinary dedication to MIT. This year’s recipient is Martin Eric William Nisser.
Martin is a PhD student in MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, or CSAIL. He has worked with a team from MIT and the European Space Agency to develop a microgravity-adapted fabrication platform, which launched on a mission to the International Space Station in November. Which is amazing, but it’s not the reason he’s receiving this award.
Deeply committed to supporting marginalized students, Martin co-founded Brave Behind Bars, a computer science program for incarcerated women, based out of MIT’s Educational Justice Initiative. He secured partnerships with correctional facilities, fundraised, co-developed the curriculum and taught both online and at Boston’s South Bay House of Correction.