Elise Pusateri will receive an award at the 20th Annual Honors Convocation Saturday, October 19, 2013, at 10:00 a.m. at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institutes Experimental Media & Performing Arts Center Concert Hall (EMPAC). The Honors Convocation celebrates the outstanding academic achievements of students and faculty. Here, parents, family, and friends will gather and watch as the Rensselaer Medalists—students with a 4.0 GPA, graduate student fellowship awardees, and faculty—are honored. Elise will be honored for receiving a Graduate Research Assistantship from Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). This assistantship will be a bridge between the LANL and RPI research communities and will fund the remainder of her PhD.