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Recognition Round-up STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS, FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS


Goldwater Scholarships. Samuel Gutekunst ’14 and Sheena Patel ’14 were awarded the Barry M. Goldwater Scholar- ship worth up to $7,500 for the academic year ahead. Voting theory has long been a research focus for mathematics major Gutekunst. Patel, a physics major, is attracted to magnetism research. Gutekunst and Patel were among 271 Goldwater recipients out of 1,107 mathematics, science and engineering students nominated by colleges and universities nationwide. Mathematics and physics major Andrew Turner ’14 received honorable mention. His research may shed light on aspects of laser chemical vapor deposition.


Whitaker Fellow. Selected as a 2013–2014 Whitaker Interna- tional Fellowship recipient, Kate Crawford ’13 will spend the next academic year in Istanbul exploring the structural proper- ties of a receptor-ligand pair implicated in cancer growth—an investigation that might lead to a chemotherapy treatment breakthrough. “I want to devote my life to cancer research,” said Crawford, before departing for Turkey’s Bogaziçi University. While an undergraduate, Crawford participated in cancer re- search at the University of Washington and MIT, and bioengi- neering research at HMC, where she also helped create a novel scaffold material on which to grow cells for a tissue-engineering “brain patch” project. HMC’s third Whitaker Fellow since 2005, Crawford is eligible for up to $35,000 in tuition reim- bursement.


Astronaut Scholar. The stellar work of rocketry enthusiast Joshua Edelman ’14 earned him recognition as a 2013–2014 Astronaut Scholar. The engineering major—who, as a De Pietro Engineering Fellow, helped design, build and launch an 80.4-inch-long reusable rocket during last year’s NASA University Student Launch Initiative—was one of 28 students nationwide to receive the $10,000 award from the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation.


NSF Fellows. Kenny Buyco ’13, Kyle Carbon ’13, Kacyn Fujii ’13, Andrew Loeb ’13 and Kiley Sobel ’12 were awarded presti- gious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow- ships. Each will receive a three-year, annual $30,000 stipend along with $12,000 for tuition and fees as they pursue advanced degrees and conduct research. Buyco will study civil engineer- ing at Caltech; Carbon, aeronautics and astronautics at Stanford University; Fujii, electrical and electronic engineering


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Goldwater Scholars Samuel Gutekunst ’14 and Sheena Patel ’14, and Astronaut Scholar Joshua Edelman ’14.


at Stanford University; Loeb, applied mathematics at Cornell University; and, Sobel, human-computer interaction at the University of Washington.


Putnam Competition. HMC students once again scored ex- ceptionally well in the annual William Lowell Putnam Math- ematical Competition, held late last year. A team consisting of Sorathan (Tum) Chaturapruek ’14, Kevin O’Neill ’13 and Peter Fedak ’13 took 11th place among 578 rival squads. Chaturapruek ranked 14th against 4,277 entrants from across the U.S. and Canada (a performance that earned him recogni- tion and a $1,000 cash prize). Tongjia Shi ’15 ended the gruel- ing, six-hour competition in 32.5th place—a score that qualifi ed him for Honorable Mention. Joining Fedak and O’Neill on the Putnam Top 500 list were Andrew Carter ’13, Michael Earnest ’13, Emil Guliyev ’13, Henry Huang ’15, Joel Ornstein ’14, John Phillpot ’16 and Jeremy Usatine ’14. Forty- two HMC students participated, with Chaturapruek, Shi and Fedak emerging as the top three HMC entrants and winners of the Department of Mathematics’ RIF Prize, which goes to the top team each year.


Cheering Section: 20-time SCIAC Champs


Matt Espy ’15, Justin Jones ’15, Bennett Naden ’13, Rafer Dannen- hauer ’13 and Chris Gage ’13 helped earn the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Championship title for the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps men’s track and fi eld team. It was the 20th time the Stags emerged victorious. Final score: Stags, 212.5 points with victories in six individual events, including 400-meter hurdles, 800-meter run, 3,000-meter steeplechase.


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Har vey Mudd College SUMMER 2013


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