2011 Goldwater Scholars Announced (news item)

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<p>The Barry M. Goldwater Foundation has just announced the new class of 2011 Goldwater Scholars for students interested in math, engineering and the sciences. Though not nearly as generous as the Hertz Fellowship, it is the next most widely desired scholarship in these fields.</p>

<p>This year Princeton had four Scholars, the maximum number allowed to any one school. It shared this honor with 25 other universities including Stanford, Amherst, Georgia Institute of Technology and many other well-known public institutions.</p>

<p>Nationwide there were 26 schools with four winners, 48 with three and 61 with two each. There were 238 institutions with at least one winner.</p>

<p>Princeton led the Ivies this year. Every school had at least one winner with the exception of Penn.</p>

<p>2011 Goldwater Scholars
(Ivy League only)</p>

<p>4---Princeton
3---Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Yale
2---Dartmouth</p>

<p>Goldwater Scholars Over the Last Three Years</p>

<p>10--MIT
9---Princeton, Cornell
8---Harvard
7---CalTech, Columbia, Yale
6---Georgia Tech, Stanford</p>

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<p>Barry</a> M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program: Scholar Press Release</p>

<p>"The Goldwater Scholars were selected on the basis of academic merit from a field of 1,095 mathematics, science, and engineering students who were nominated by the faculties of colleges and universities nationwide. One hundred seventy of the Scholars are men, 105 are women, and virtually all intend to obtain a Ph.D. as their degree objective. Twenty-four Scholars are mathematics majors, 194 are science and related majors, 52 are majoring in engineering, and 5 are computer science majors. Many of the Scholars have dual majors in a variety of mathematics, science, engineering, and computer disciplines. . . .</p>

<p>Goldwater Scholars have very impressive academic qualifications that have garnered the attention of prestigious post-graduate fellowship programs. Recent Goldwater Scholars have been awarded 77 Rhodes Scholarships (including 4 for 2011), 108 Marshall Awards, 98 Churchill Scholarships and numerous other distinguished fellowships.</p>

<p>The Goldwater Foundation is a federally endowed agency established by Public Law 99-661 on November 14, 1986. The Scholarship Program honoring Senator Barry M. Goldwater was designed to foster and encourage outstanding students to pursue careers in the fields of mathematics, the natural sciences, and engineering. The Goldwater Scholarship is the premier undergraduate award of its type in these fields.
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<p>Here are two articles about Princeton’s Goldwater Scholars for this year:</p>

<p>[Four</a> juniors win Goldwater prize - The Daily Princetonian](<a href=“http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2011/04/07/28169/]Four”>http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2011/04/07/28169/)</p>

<p>[Princeton</a> University - Four juniors named Goldwater Scholars](<a href=“Four juniors named Goldwater Scholars”>Four juniors named Goldwater Scholars)</p>

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<p>What is your source for your “Goldwater Scholars Over the Last Three Years” list? Are you counting honorable mentions? I went to [Barry</a> M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program: 2011 Goldwater Scholars](<a href=“http://www.act.org/goldwater/sch-2011.html]Barry”>http://www.act.org/goldwater/sch-2011.html) and counted up the winners and came up with different numbers for some of the institutions. Also - You left out Montana State University from your list (six over the past three years).</p>

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<p>A friend from Yale has just pointed out to me that the above figures include all the Honorable Mentions rather than just the winners. I’ve recalculated the numbers and have now also included the last four years of Scholars (i.e. all for which I could find listings online). The corrected figures for just the Goldwater Scholars (excluding the Honorable Mentions) are shown below.</p>

<p>This year Princeton had four Scholars, the maximum number allowed to any one school. It shared this honor with 4 other universities.</p>

<p>Nationwide there were 5 schools with four winners, 14 with three and 53 with two each. There were 176 institutions with at least one winner.</p>

<p>2011 Goldwater Scholars (omitting Honorable Mentions)
(Ivy League only)</p>

<p>4—Princeton
3—Harvard
2—Columbia, Cornell, Yale</p>

<p>Leading Institutions for Goldwater Scholars Over the Last Four Years</p>

<p>14—Arizona State
13—MIT
12—Princeton, Carnegie Mellon, Clemson, U. of Washington
11—Harvard, Northwestern, Universities of DE, FL, MN Twin Cities, MI Ann Arbor, North Texas
10—Cornell, Rice, Indiana U. Bloomington, U. of MD College Park, U. of Arizona
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<p>I see the Barry Goldwater Arizona influence</p>

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<p>Woot, go Jia!</p>