Eileen Kraus Scholarship Awardee 2022

We are pleased to announce this year’s Eileen Kraus Scholarship Awardee, Helena Servin-DeMarrais. Helena’s winning essay highlighted Jewel Plummer Cobb, a ground-breaking researcher, distinguished professor, and top university administrator, who forever changed the face of the scientific community

Helena Servin-DeMarrais is an 18-year-old student and researcher from Westport, CT. At Greenwich Academy, she has been the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Board Representative for her grade for three years, has received the Cum Laude distinction, and is the captain and founder of her school’s Chess Team. Her passion for leadership and empathy for others has allowed her to combine her classmates' ideas to create common goals. Outside of school, Helena plays competitive chess both nationally and internationally and represented the United States at the World Youth Chess Championships in 2018 as a member of Team USA. One of her greatest joys has been sharing her knowledge and love of computer science and biology with her students at the American Museum of Natural History as a Peer Tutor and Intern. Helena currently works as a computational biology intern in a microbiology lab at Columbia University’s Medical Center. She also became a Finalist in the American Computer Science League in 2021 and her article on the Ebola Virus vaccine was included in MIT’s Best of MOSTEC 2021 Science Writing. Helena is excited to continue her studies at Columbia University next fall, where she will be majoring in Biomedical Engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences on the journey to become a Physician Scientist involved in biotechnology.

For more information about Eileen Kraus, visit her Inductee page here.