Anthony Price, a high school student who works in Professor Rigoberto Advincula’s research lab, recently was awarded a 2015 Princeton Prize in Race Relations. This prestigious award carries a $1,000 prize for particularly noteworthy work and included an all-expense paid trip to Princeton University for the Award Symposium in April.
Price is a junior at Shaw High School in East Cleveland. He has been an Envoy in CLiPS (the National Science Foundation's Science and Technology Center for Layered Polymeric Systems) since the summer of 2013. He works in the research laboratory of Advincula, professor in the Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering, under the mentorship of PhD candidate Brylee Tiu.
The Princeton Prize in Race Relations was created to identify and commend young people who are working to increase understanding and mutual respect among all races. Through this effort, the Prize Committee hopes to inspire others to join in these or similar efforts, and to undertake initiatives of their own.
The organizers believe that young people have a particularly important role to play, and hope, through the Princeton Prize, to recognize and encourage young people who have made or are making efforts to improve racial harmony.
