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Mar. 27, 2006
NC State University Student Garners Goldwater Scholarship
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IMMEDIATE RELEASE
North Carolina State University undergraduate Jessica Badger
of Fayetteville, a junior majoring in microbiology, has won a prestigious
Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship for the 2006-07 academic year.
John Rhoden of Raleigh, a junior majoring in chemical
engineering, was awarded honorable mention.
Badger is among 323 recipients of the honor. They were selected
from a field of 1,081 mathematics, science and engineering students
who were nominated by the faculties of colleges and universities
nationwide. The awards are based on academic merit and cover the cost
of tuition, fees, books, and room and board up to a maximum of $7,500
per year.
Rhoden is one of 128 recipients to be named honorable mention.
He receives an award of $350.
Badger is a Park Scholar and member of the University Honors
Program. She won a National Science Foundation Research Experiences
for Undergraduates award and last summer worked in chemistry and
biochemistry labs at the University of Montana, where she will return to
continue her research this year. She has worked with Dr. Amy Grunden
in NC State’s Department of Microbiology. Badger plans to specialize in
proteomics in graduate school and become a professor.
Rhoden is a Park Scholar who is a member of Dr. Jason Haugh’s
lab in the Department of Chemical and Biomolceular Engineering. His
research interests center around the fundamentals of wound-healing processes at the molecular
level. He has spent summers with a cardiovascular simulations lab at Duke, and last spring he
studied engineering – in Spanish – at Valencia Polytechnic University. After graduate school,
Rhoden plans to teach and do research in a university setting.
Goldwater Scholarship selections are made by the board of trustees of the Barry M.
Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation, a federally endowed agency
established in 1986 to foster and encourage outstanding students to pursue careers in
mathematics, the natural sciences and engineering.
Twenty-seven NC State students have received the coveted Goldwater Scholarships since
the program’s inception.
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