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OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY / COLLEGE OF SCIENCE
Kimberly Truong (left) and Fernando Angulo Barba excel in their fields
Passion and Purpose STUDENTS AND FACULT Y
Another Goldwater scholar from Team Science!
NSF awards high-achieving science grads
Kimberly Truong has been named a 2023 Goldwater Scholar – the nation’s highest award for undergraduate students in natural science, engineering or mathematics. Double majoring in mathematics and computer science, Truong intends to obtain a Ph.D. in machine learning and pursue a university faculty position that will allow her to conduct research at the intersection of machine learning and software engineering.
Four College of Science graduate students have been selected for the prestigious NSF Graduate Student Research Fellowship Program.
The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation was established by Congress in 1986 in honor of Barry Goldwater, a U.S. senator from Arizona. Truong is the 45th student in OSU history to receive this award and the 25th from Team Science, building on the College’s impressive track record of training high-achieving undergraduates.
Luke Bobay is an integrative biology Ph.D. candidate at the Hatfield Marine Science Center Plankton Ecology Lab. He currently explores the climate change effects on northern anchovy populations off the Pacific Northwest coast. Olivia Burleigh is an integrative biology Ph.D. candidate working with Virginia Weis. She studies the symbiotic relationship between coral and algae and its implications for coral health. Caroline Hernandez is a microbiology Ph.D. student working with Maude David. She studies the interactions between sensory gut cells and neurons,
particularly in the context of autism spectrum and anxiety disorders. Sunni Patton is a microbiology Ph.D. student working with Rebecca Vega Thurber. Her work focuses on understanding microbiome resilience and sensitivity in response to environmental stressors in endangered Caribbean coral.
GEM Fellowship recipient says he’ll pay it forward Mathematics Ph.D. student Fernando Angulo Barba received the GEM Fellowship, a prestigious national program promoting the participation of underrepresented groups in postgraduate science and engineering. As a father to a one-year old son, the support is especially appreciated. Now, he aims to help others. “I’ve been lucky and fortunate enough to get support while being a minority
