Juniors Anthony Miller, Ruth Tennen and Michael Tibbetts and sophomore Darsh Ranjan have won the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship. The $7,500 award is awarded to undergraduates focusing on science, math or engineering and covers tuition, fees, books and room and board.
The award is sponsored by the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation and was created to alleviate the current and future shortage of scientists, mathematicians and engineers, according to its website.
The four students were notified two weeks ago that they had were the recipients of the Goldwater scholarship.
"I'm definitely really excited," Tennen said. "It was definitely an amazing thing to get and I wasn't expecting it at all."
The Goldwater scholarship is awarded on the basis of merit to two groups of students — those who will be juniors and those who will be seniors in the 2004-05 academic year. The University nominated the four students — the maximum number a school can submit to the award's national committee for consideration — for the scholarship.
"It's great that all four Princeton people got it," Tennen said.
The application process for the scholarship began late last year and continued into January of this year, Ranjan said. Initially, the University has an internal selection from which four applicants' names are sent to the national committee, which makes the final selection.
"I found out in the middle of March from their website," Ranjan said. "I'm pretty excited about getting it."
"I felt honored and grateful to receive the award," Tibbetts said.
Future plans
Tennen is planning on studying genetics and oncology, but is still open to "whatever seems interesting as I go along." Tibbetts is majoring in molecular biology. Ranjan will most likely be studying mathematics, but is also considering computer science.
Miller is currently abroad and could not be reached for comment.
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