W&M chemistry student awarded Goldwater Scholarship
金水基金会宣布，威廉和玛丽学生克里斯托弗·特拉维斯19已被任命为金水学者。 20岁的露丝·安·比弗也获得了荣誉奖。
The prestigious award, given annually to sophomores and juniors who intend to pursue careers in the natural sciences, mathematics and engineering, covers the cost of tuition, fees, books, and room and board up to a maximum of $7,500 per year.
The scholarship was established by Congress in 1986 to honor the work of Senator Barry Goldwater, who served in the U.S. Senate from the ‘50s through the ‘80s, and was the Republican presidential candidate in 1964.
Travis, a double major in chemistry and Computational and Applied Mathematics and Statistics, is one of 211 students nationwide to receive a scholarship from a pool of 1,280 natural sciences, mathematics, and engineering students. An additional 281 nominees were named Honorable Mentions.
"I am very excited and honored to receive this award," Travis said. "It’s a great testament to the caliber of undergraduate research at William & 玛丽."
Since the fall of his freshman year, Travis has conducted research in the biochemistry lab of Douglas Young, associate professor of chemistry at W&M, where he studies bioconjugations via unnatural amino acids, which can be developed into targeted cancer therapies. Last year, another of Young’s students, Zachary Nimmo ’18, was awarded a Goldwater for similar research. Young was named a 2017 Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar by the Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation.
“Chris is an outstanding student and well-deserving of this extremely prestigious award,” Young said. “Having him work in my research lab over the past three years has been a pleasure, and I look forward to following his impressive future career in the sciences.”
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