{"id":475,"date":"2015-04-14T15:00:08","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T19:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.eckerd.edu\/?p=459"},"modified":"2022-11-03T12:04:37","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T16:04:37","slug":"physics-and-math-major-wins-prestigious-goldwater-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eckerd.edu\/news\/blog\/physics-and-math-major-wins-prestigious-goldwater-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"Physics and math major wins prestigious Goldwater Scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Eckerd College junior with a double major in physics and mathematics has won a Barry Goldwater Scholarship, the most prestigious undergraduate award given in the sciences.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Thielen of Bradenton is one of just 10 Florida residents awarded a Goldwater Scholarship, created by Congress in 1986 to honor the late Sen. Barry Goldwater. The aim of the program is to encourage students to pursue research careers in science, engineering and math.<\/p>\n<p>Senior marine science major Takoda Edlund received an honorable mention.<\/p>\n<p>Eckerd College students have been awarded 15 Goldwater Scholarships and five honorable mentions in the past 24 years. The scholarships cover the cost of tuition, fees, books, and room and board up to a maximum of $7,500 per year.<\/p>\n<p>Thielen, a Ford Scholar, was also awarded a Hollings Scholarship that will allow him to intern this summer at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. He will be working on a project to design software for a new compact coronagraph in order to provide early warnings of communication-disrupting solar flares.<\/p>\n<p>His research at Eckerd has included a computer model he developed between his freshman and sophomore years with Professor of Physics Stephen Weppner to determine the internal composition and structure of distant planets. The resulting paper is expected to be published in \u00a0Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. He already has given a talk on the research at an American physics teachers conference in Orlando.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin also worked with Associate Professor of Mathematics Jianqiang Zhao on topics in number theory. His latest project is with Assistant Professor of Mathematics Nazarre Merchant \u00a0on the logical structure of current linguistic theories of \u00a0language formation.<\/p>\n<p>An Eagle Scout, Kevin plans to study applied mathematics on the graduate level and teach at the university level. \u201cWithout the research experience that\u2019s been made available to me at Eckerd I probably wouldn\u2019t be a math and physics major,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second year in a row that an Eckerd student has won a Goldwater Scholarship. Colleen O\u2019Brien, a senior majoring in marine science and \u00a0biochemistry, <a style=\"font-weight: inherit;font-style: inherit\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eckerd.edu\/news\/index.php?f=detail&amp;id=3479\">won last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: inherit;font-style: inherit\">\u201cWinning a Goldwater Scholarship testified to Kevin\u2019s amazing abilities in physics and math,\u2019\u2019 said Associate Professor of Marine Science and Biology William A. Szelistowski, who serves as Eckerd\u2019s Goldwater faculty representative. \u201cThis is merely the latest example of the high quality of Eckerd\u2019s science programs and the close working relationships students enjoy with professors.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Eckerd College junior with a double major in physics and mathematics has won a Barry Goldwater Scholarship, the most prestigious undergraduate award given in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,69,72],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-475","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-academics","7":"category-mathematics","8":"category-physics"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.5 (Yoast SEO v27.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Physics and math major wins prestigious Goldwater Scholarship - 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