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Twelve Indian-Americans are among the recipients of the 2015 Goldwater Scholarships, awarded annually to undergraduate sophomores and juniors. 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.
Indian-American scholars include Saket Agrawal of California, Karishma Sriram of Georgia, Dhruv Dixit and Kaustav A Gopinathan of Massachusetts, Naveen Jain of Minnesota, Varun Anand and Aditya D. Parikh of New Jersey, Shoshana Das of New York, Anjli M Patel of Pennsylvania, Vishnu V. Dantu and Ritish Patnaik of Texas and Sohil R. Shah of Wisconsin.
This year’s scholars were selected on the basis of academic merit from a field of 1,206 mathematics, science, and engineering students who were nominated by the faculties of colleges and universities nationwide. One hundred forty-five of the scholars are men, 115 are women, and virtually all intend to obtain a Ph.D. as their degree objective. Thirty-four Scholars are mathematics majors, 154 are science and related majors, 68 are majoring in engineering, and 4 are computer science majors. Many of the Scholars have dual majors in a variety of mathematics, science, engineering, and computer disciplines.
Agrawal, who is studying chemistry at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, wants to conduct research in organometallic chemistry and teach at the university level. Sriram, who is majoring in biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of Georgia in Athens, wants to pursue her Ph.D and MD. She wants to conduct research in biomedical science and teach in a medical school affiliated with a research institution. Dixit is a physics and mathematics major at SUNY University at Stony Brook. He wants to pursue his Ph.D. in nuclear physics and conduct research in physics of fundamental particles and teach at a university level. MIT student Gopinathan, who is studying electrical engineering and electrical science, wants to pursue a M.D./Ph.D. in biomedical engineering. He wants to conduct both basic and translational research to develop affordable therapies and diagnostic methods, as well as teach at the university level. Jain, of the Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, is a molecular biology and biochemistry major. He wants to complete his M.D./Ph.D. in molecular biology and biochemistry and later conduct biomedical research focused on cancer as a physician-scientist and professor at an academic research institution. Arvind, a biomedical engineering major at New Jersey’s Rutgers University, is aiming to pursue his M.D./Ph.D in tissue engineering. He wants to perform research in the design of biomaterials and study of stem cell differentiation for tissue regeneration therapies, and teach at the university level. Parikh, also of Rutgers, is a physics and astrophysics major. He wants to pursue a Ph.D. in theoretical particle physics and conduct research in particle astrophysics and teach at the university level. Das, who is studying biological engineering at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, is aiming for a Ph.D. in biomedical or chemical engineering. She wants to conduct medically applicable research in a bimolecular engineering field. Patel, a chemical engineering major at Philadelphia’s Drexel University , is aiming for Ph.D. in Semiconductor Materials for solar energy applications and ultimately build a career developing innovative photovoltaic cells as a materials researcher in the solar industry. Dantu, of the University of North Texas in Denton, is a physics major. Aiming for a Ph.D. in biophysics, he wants to conduct research in the subject and teach at the university level. Patnaik, a biomedical engineering student at Columbia University in New York, is aiming for a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering and conduct research in diagnostic and therapeutic devices for low-resource settings and teach at the university level. Shah is a chemistry, mathematics and economics major at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Aiming for a Ph.D in chemistry, Shah wants to conduct research in materials chemistry and teach at the university level.
Since its first award in 1989, the foundation has bestowed 7,428 scholarships worth approximately $48 million.
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