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CASEY TIN/Daily
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
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