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Sticking 
with 

the 
theme 
of 
fours 
in 
 

University 
of 
Michigan 

athletics, 
all 
four 
of 
the 

University’s student nominees 
received 
the 
Goldwater 

Scholarship for the first time 
since 
2002. 
The 
Goldwater 

Scholarship is a top award for 
students 
pursuing 
graduate 

careers in STEM, providing 
recipients with up to $7,500 
in scholarship funds for their 
graduate studies.

Henry Dyson, director of the 

Office of National Scholarships 
and Fellowships, said in an email 
interview the University was 
one of three schools where all 
nominees won the award, along 
with Northeastern University 
and the University of Maryland. 
Dyson said the University ranks 
eighth in total students, tied 
with Kansas State, with 74 total 
scholarship recipients since the 
scholarship’s inception.

The process for the Goldwater 

Scholarship requires a University 
nomination, and each school 
is limited to four nominees. 
Dyson said this year ONSF 
received 16 applications for four 
nominations. The nominees had 

an average grade point average 
of 3.9 and significant research 
experience.

“It’s typically one of the 

most competitive nomination 
processes that ONSF runs each 
year,” Dyson wrote. “This was 
one of the strongest applicant 
pools we’ve had in some time.”

The 
University 
also 
had 

multiple seniors and graduate 
students receive the similar 
National Science Foundation’s 
Graduate Research Fellowships 
Program awards. The GRFP 
provides recipients with a three-
year stipend for educational and 
research opportunities. Dyson 
said he sees overlap between the 

students who apply for both 
opportunities.

“Every year when I look 

at the recipients for the 
NSF-GRFP, I recognize the 
many names of students who 
applied for the Goldwater 
Scholarship,” Dyson wrote. 
“Many of these applicants 
were not nominated for 
Goldwater, but did go on 
to receive the NSF-GRFP 
in senior year or as first or 
second-year PhD students. 
So I would not want the 
competitiveness 
of 
the 

Goldwater 
nomination 

process to dissuade students 
from applying.”

Dyson 
credits 
the 

success of the nominees to 
undergraduate 
research 

at the University. He said 
many applicants begin their 
research 
careers 
in 
the 

Undergraduate 
Research 

Opportunity 
Program 
as 

underclassmen. He said some 
students make substantive 
contributions to research 
and have often authored or 
co-authored 
publications. 

Another 
feature 
of 
the 

recipients is their completion of 
summer research opportunities 
at funded programs around the 
country.

“Our Goldwater and NSF-

GRFP recipients speak to the 
incredibly strong culture of 
undergraduate research that we 
have at UM,” Dyson wrote. “This 
is truly one of the strongest 
parts 
of 
our 
undergraduate 

education.”

LSA senior Tali Khain, one 

of the winners of the Goldwater 
Scholarship, has been involved 
in research since her freshman 
year. She currently works with 
Prof. David Gerdes on a solar 
system project in the Physics 
Department studying objects 
beyond Neptune’s orbit in a 
region called the Kuiper belt.

“Last 
summer 
I 
was 
at 

CalTech (California Institute 
of Technology) working with 
professors 
who 
think 
there 

might be another planet in our 
solar system,” Khain said. “It’s 
called the Planet 9 hypothesis 
and they think there might be 
another planet based on these 
Kuiper belt objects. It’s really 
cool that we are able to model 
objects that are so far away and 
use them as indirect evidence for 
an undiscovered planet in our 
solar system.”

Khain said she hopes to use 

the 
Goldwater 
Scholarship 

to go to graduate school for 
physics and continue to work in 
astrophysics.

“(Receiving the scholarship) 

is extremely exciting,” Khain 
said. “I’ve been working towards 
this for a very long time and I am 
honored to have gotten it.”

LSA 
senior 
Carolyn 
Suh, 

another 
recipient, 
works 
in 

the 
Narayan 
Lab, 
studying 

biocatalysis to try and use 

Four ‘U’ students awarded Goldwater 
Scholarships for STEM graduate study

All four students nominated by the University received scholarships this year

REMY FARKAS
Daily Staff Reporter

See SCHOLARSHIP, Page 3

