ME undergraduate student Yaniv Scherson has been named as a winner of the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship. The purpose of the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, as stated in the enabling legislation, is to alleviate a critical current and future shortage of highly qualified scientists, mathematicians, and engineers. A more realistic statement of the purpose, in today's terms, is to provide a continuing source of highly qualified individuals to those fields of academic study and research.
From the Goldwater Scholarship Awards press release:
Mrs. Peggy Goldwater Clay, Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation, announced today that the Trustees awarded 323 scholarships for the 2006-2007 academic year to undergraduate sophomores and juniors from the United States.
The Goldwater Scholars were selected on the basis of academic merit from a field of 1,081 mathematics, science, and engineering students who were nominated by the faculties of colleges and universities nationwide. One hundred eighty-two of the Scholars are men, 141 are women, and virtually all intend to obtain a Ph.D. as their degree objective. Thirty-two Scholars are mathematics majors, 234 are science majors, 47 are majoring in engineering, and 10 are computer science related majors. Many of the Scholars have dual majors in a variety of mathematics, science, engineering, and computer disciplines.
The one and two year scholarships will cover the cost of tuition, fees, books, and room and board up to a maximum of $7,500 per year.
Goldwater Scholars have very impressive academic qualifications that have garnered the attention of prestigious post-graduate fellowship programs. Recent Goldwater Scholars have been awarded 63 Rhodes Scholarships (5 of the 42 awarded in the United States in 2006), 80 Marshall Awards (8 of the 40 awarded in the United States in 2006), and numerous other distinguished fellowships.
The Goldwater Foundation is a federally endowed agency established by Public Law 99-661 on November 14, 1986. The Scholarship Program honoring Senator Barry M. Goldwater was designed to foster and encourage outstanding students to pursue careers in the fields of mathematics, the natural sciences, and engineering. The Goldwater Scholarship is the premier undergraduate award of its type in these fields.
In its eighteen-year history, the Foundation has awarded 4,885 scholarships worth approximately forty-eight million dollars. The Trustees plan to award about three hundred scholarships for the 2007-2008 academic year.
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