March 30, 2018

Burton recieves Honorable Mention - 2018-2019 Goldwater Scholarships

Mari-Therese Burton, MSE junior, has won an honorable mention in the Goldwater Scholarship competition. She has been receiving accolades from the faculty, among them:

"......from my long involvement in the Goldwater Fellowship process, this is an extremely competitive award at the national level and it is mark of distinction to have gained an honorable mention. Well done!"

- Prof Anthony Rollins

".....This is an extremely prestigious and competitive process, so you should be very proud of this, as we are of you."
- Prof Gregory Rohrer

The Board of Trustees of the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation, announced 211 scholarships for the 2018-2019 academic year to undergraduate sophomores and juniors from the United States. An additional 281 nominees were named as Honorable Mentions.

The Goldwater Scholars were selected based on academic merit from a field of 1,280 natural sciences, mathematics, and engineering students nominated by the campus representatives from over 2,000 colleges and universities nationwide. Of those reporting, 110 of the Scholars are men, 99 are women, and virtually all intend to obtain a Ph.D. as their highest degree objective. Twenty-nine Scholars are mathematics and computer science majors, 142 are majoring in the natural sciences, and 40 are majoring in engineering. Many of the Scholars have dual majors in a variety of mathematics, science, engineering, and computer science.

Goldwater Scholars have very impressive academic qualifications that have garnered the attention of prestigious post-graduate fellowship programs. Recent Goldwater Scholars have been awarded 91 Rhodes Scholarships, 131 Marshall Awards, 150 Churchill Scholarships, 100 Hertz Fellowships and numerous other distinguished awards like the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships.