Saratoga Springs Native Awarded the Thouron Award

SARATOGA SPRINGS - Nicholas Stiansen, a 2014 SSHS graduate, recently received the prestigious Thouron Award to further his post graduate education in the U.K. from the University of Pennsylvania, where he is a senior. Each scholarship winner receives tuition and stipends for as long as two years to earn a graduate degree. Stiansen studies bioengineering with a focus on medical devices. He works as an undergraduate research assistant on campus in Beth Winkelstein’s Spine Pain Research Laboratory where he studies cervical spine biomechanics. He is also a teaching assistant for a junior-level bioengineering lab and served at the president of the Engineering Dean’s Advisory Board and the treasurer of the Biomedical Engineering Society. While at SSHS, Stiansen received many honors with football, academics, and the Yaddo Medal.