2006 Goldwater Scholars Announced

Colleges and Universities A-Z Princeton University
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<p><a href=“http://www.act.org/goldwater/yyschrel.html[/url]”>http://www.act.org/goldwater/yyschrel.html</a>
<a href=“http://www.act.org/goldwater/sch-2006.html[/url]”>http://www.act.org/goldwater/sch-2006.html</a></p>

<p>Congratulations to the winners of the 2006 Goldwater Scholarships for excellence in mathematics, science, and engineering. “The Goldwater Scholarship is the premier undergraduate award of its type in these fields.”</p>

<p>Each university or college is allowed annually to nominate four undergraduates for the award. This year, “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.”</p>

<p>In the Ivy League:</p>

<p>4 winners - Dartmouth
4 winners - Princeton
4 winners - Penn</p>

<p>3 winners - Cornell
3 winners - Yale</p>

<p>2 winners - Brown
2 winners - Columbia
2 winners - Harvard</p>

<p>Other private schools of note:</p>

<p>4 winners - Stanford
3 winners - MIT
2 winners - Cal Tech</p>

<p>Over the history of the award, Princeton has produced more Goldwater scholars than any other university in the country. The top schools in rank order through 2005 (not yet updated for 2006) are:</p>

<p>Goldwater Scholars
Top 20 of the 2,000 four-year colleges in America:
500 state; 1,500 private
March 2005</p>

<li>Princeton University 60</li>
<li>Harvard University 58</li>
<li>Duke University 54</li>
<li>K-STATE 53</li>
<li>PENN STATE UNIVERSITY 50</li>
<li>University of Chicago 50</li>
<li>California Institute of Technology 49</li>
<li>UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS-URBANA 48</li>
<li>Stanford 45</li>
<li>Washington University (St. Louis) 45</li>
<li>UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA 43</li>
<li>MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY 42</li>
<li>Johns Hopkins University 42</li>
<li>Cornell University 41</li>
<li>Brown 41</li>
<li>Northwestern University 40</li>
<li>UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 41</li>
<li>University of Tulsa 39</li>
<li>Massachusetts Institute of Technology 38</li>
<li>UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS 38
21 Yale 38</li>
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<p><a href=“http://www.math.ksu.edu/main/events/ksucomp/goldwater/goldwtr05.htm[/url]”>http://www.math.ksu.edu/main/events/ksucomp/goldwater/goldwtr05.htm</a></p>

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<p>Why do you select only the Goldwater Scholars from the KState list?</p>

<p>See: <a href="http://www.mediarelations.ksu.edu/WEB/News/NewsReleases/scholarschart.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.mediarelations.ksu.edu/WEB/News/NewsReleases/scholarschart.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>How many of those awards can be attained by both undergrads and grad students?
Given the size difference (P'ton 6,000 students, Harv 20,000, etc.) between the top schools, Princeton's performance looks all the more impressive.</p>

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<ol>
<li><p>Not many; and</p></li>
<li><p>Your numbers are off.</p></li>
</ol>

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<p>Princeton and Stanford both did very well.</p>

<p>Is this a reflection on Harvard's science programs?</p>

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<p>Stanford has a long way to go to catch K-State, apparently.</p>

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<p>why is K-State up there? and where's berkeley?</p>

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<p>So does MIT and Yale.</p>

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<p>Zephyr151, no, I don't think this reflects poorly on Harvard at all. Harvard's science programs are strong, as are Stanford's, which as you note, also had the maximum number of scholars this year. There is, however, some concern among the undergraduates at Harvard about the quality of science programs for non-scientists. This article from the Crimson encouraging some improvement in this area might be of interest.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=512353%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=512353&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Additional information about the four Goldwater Scholars from Princeton has just become available.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S14/59/72M74/index.xml?section=announcements%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S14/59/72M74/index.xml?section=announcements&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>