<p>Princeton led the nation this year in Hertz Fellows, sharing the top spot for undergraduate alma maters with MIT and Stanford. Each of the leaders claimed two Fellows as undergraduate alumni.</p>
<p>The Hertz Fellowship is the most generous graduate fellowship in the field of science with a total value of $250,000.00 per Fellow and only 15 recipients are chosen each year. Generally, about half of them are already in graduate school.</p>
<p>The Ivy League was also represented by Columbia and Harvard, each of which had a single undergraduate alum winner. </p>
<p>Other schools represented were Berkeley, Oxford, Rice, Rutgers, U.S. Military Academy, U.S. Naval Academy and U.T. Austin.</p>
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<p>Princeton</a> University - Two seniors win $250,000 Hertz fellowship for graduate study</p>
<p>Princeton University seniors Cameron Myhrvold and Kay Ousterhout have a new opportunity to deepen their passion for science after receiving $250,000 each in no-strings-attached research funding.</p>
<p>Myhrvold, a molecular biology major, and Ousterhout, a computer science major, are two of 15 students nationwide to receive a prestigious fellowship from the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation that provides funding for five years of doctoral study, during which they can tackle whatever scientific challenges they choose.</p>
<p>Myhrvold and Ousterhout were chosen from nearly 600 applicants for the Hertz Fellowship. Students in the applied sciences and engineering are selected as fellows based on their intellect, ingenuity and potential to bring change to society, according to the Hertz Foundation.</p>
<p>Myhrvold, who said he has a "lot of interests," plans to pursue graduate work either in the Systems Biology Ph.D. Program at Harvard University or the Department of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Seattle native is not yet certain in which direction he will take his doctoral study, given his fascination for questions to do with the origins of life, evolution and synthetic biology. . . . (continued)</p>
<p>Ousterhout, a computer science major from Palo Alto, Calif., plans to use the fellowship funding to pursue research relating to the flow of data across the Internet by focusing on distributed systems and networking, areas of computer science that center on using multiple computers working together to process information. She has been accepted to several doctoral programs and is deciding which she will attend. . . . (continued)</p>
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<p>The Hertz Foundation Selects Fifteen Young Leaders in Applied Science and Engineering to Receive Nations Most Generous PhD Fellowships</p>
<p> Financial support valued at more than $250,000 per student</p>
<p>Livermore, CA March 31, 2011 The highly respected Fannie and John Hertz Foundation, giving generous support to young leaders in applied sciences and engineering, today announced selection of its 2011-2012 Hertz Fellows. The Fellowship, valued at more than $250,000 per student, goes to 15 new recipients, who will receive financial support lasting up to five years of their graduate studies.</p>
<p>We are pleased to announce this years Fellows, stated Dr. Jay Davis, Hertz Foundation President. These men and women show extraordinary promise to carry forward the mission of this Foundation. They join the community of leaders who produce advances in science, medicine, technology, business, academia and government. . . . We believe that their creativity and risk-taking bring forth innovation for the most pressing problems we face today.</p>
<p>The new Hertz Fellows were selected from an elite pool of 558 applicants. The fifteen include four women and eleven men. Two are members of the military, with one having completed two tours of combat duty. Computer science, electrical engineering and chemistry are found to be the prevalent areas of focus within the group. As undergraduates, three were previously awarded the prestigious Goldwater Scholarship for excellence in pursuit of careers in science, mathematics and engineering.</p>
<p>Hertz Fellowships are unique, no-strings-attached fellowships, allowing the freedom to innovate, continued Davis. Hertz Fellows pursue their own ideas with financial independence under the guidance of some of our countrys finest professors and mentors. Fellows are chosen for their intellect, their ingenuity and their potential to bring meaningful improvement to society. The Hertz Foundation nurtures these remarkable scientists and engineers as they develop and explore their genius. We believe they show the most promise to change the world. (continued)</p>