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2023-24 MIT Women's Openweight Crew Roster

Emma Rutherford

  • Height 5-5
  • Class Graduate Student
  • High School Brentwood
  • Hometown Nashville, Tenn.
  • Major Mechanical Engineering and Physics

Biography

Accolades:
- Patriot League Academic Honor Roll (2022-23)
- CRCA Scholar-Athlete (2022-23)

2023-24: 
- Appeared in two events 
- Was the #1 seat of the Club 8+ “B” that finished ninth at the Head of the Charles (10/21)   
- Was the #3 seat of the Collegiate 2V8+ (2V) that finished first at the Head of the Fish (10/28)

2022-23:
- Appeared in seven events, all as a member of the V4+
- Was the #1 seat of the V4+ that finished second in the Petite Final at the Knecht Cup (4/15)
- Was the #1 seat of the V4+ that finished third in the Grand Final at the New England Rowing Championship (5/6)
- Was the #1 seat of the V4+ that finished first in the Petite Final at the Patriot League Championship (5/12)

Favorite Sports Memory:
- My first 2K on the Charles

Favorite Memory as an MIT Student-Athlete:
- Hosting NCAA Women's Soccer Quarterfinals

Off the Water at MIT:
- Pursuing a Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering
- Interned at Intuitive Surgical working on instruments for the da Vinci robot 
- Research: Precision Machine Design in Professor Slocum's Lab, Surgical Robots in Ellen Roche's Lab, High Speed Underwater Camera at MIT Sea Grant 
- 1st Place in De Florez Design Competition 2023 
- Dean Horn Award for Undergraduate Study in Marine Research 2023 
- Majored in mechanical engineering and physics with a minor in computer science
- Also a member of the MIT women's soccer team
- Mechanical design intern at Intuitive Surgical working on advanced energy instruments.
- Researched in partnership with NASA to prototype an tall expandable lunar tower.
- Published a paper on COVID aersosol dispersion in classrooms using computational fluid dynamics.
- Worked with a renowned underwater photographer on a science and art installation at the Boston aquarium where I used NASA satellite data to create artistic visual representations of phytoplankton in New England.
- International Design Award for Outstanding Achievement in 2.007
- De Florez Grant Recipient for work on Lunar Tower Project
- MacGregor House Entry Chair
- Internship at NASA Langley Mechanical Engineering 
- Biomimetic Robotics Laboratory
- International Design Award for Excellent Performance in 2.007
- President of the Lab for Chocolate Science
- Teaching Assistant / Mentor for Physics II
- Worked with underwater photographer Keith Ellenbogen to create satellite images of phytoplankton blooms using NASA Landsat data in order to bring public awareness to biodiversity in Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary
- Research in Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer research studying Huntington's disease in transgenic mice
- Little Beavers Running Club
- Lab for Chocolate Science
- Art Club

High School:
- A 2019 graduate of Brentwood High School
- Salutatorian
- Earned four varsity letters in soccer, three in track and one in cross country
- Three-time All-District
- Senior Captain
- National Honor Society
- National English Honor Society
- National Math Honor Society (Mu Alpha Theta)
- National Merit Scholar
- Perfect ACT Score
- National AP Scholar

Historical Player Information

  • 2022-23Senior

    5'7"
  • 2023-24Graduate Student

    5'5"