{"id":7897,"date":"2019-05-29T11:13:42","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T15:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/news\/?p=7897"},"modified":"2019-05-29T12:59:57","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T16:59:57","slug":"elizabethtown-college-student-named-2019-goldwater-scholar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2019\/05\/29\/elizabethtown-college-student-named-2019-goldwater-scholar\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabethtown College Student Named 2019 Goldwater Scholar"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the third time a Goldwater Scholarship has been awarded to an E-town Student<\/em><\/h4>\n

Recently, Elizabethtown College junior Sara Luckenbill of Kutztown was honored with the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship. The scholarship, given in the natural sciences, engineering, and mathematics, is awarded annually to 300 college sophomores and juniors nationwide.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The Goldwater Scholarship supports undergraduate students pursuing STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) research careers to \u201censure that the U.S. is producing the number of highly-qualified professionals the nation needs in these critical fields.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI am elated to have been named a 2019 Goldwater Scholar,\u201d Luckenbill said. \u201cTo be considered an emerging national professional by such a prestigious foundation is an incredible honor.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Luckenbill, a Biotechnology major and with minors in Biochemistry and Psychology at E-town is specifically interested in microbiology and immunology. She was recognized for her research project, \u201cCharacterizing the Effects of Corticosterone on MuTu Dendritic Cell Activation.\u201d<\/p>\n

“Elizabethtown College\u2019s motto Educate for Service<\/em> is a call-to-action that strongly resonates with me,” Luckenbill said. \u201cI believe everyone must use their passions, knowledge, and skills to make the world a better place for others. It is this belief that motivates me in my studies.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is the third Goldwater Scholar for Elizabethtown College. Previous scholars include Jennifer Stanford \u201997 and Angela Mitchell \u201907.<\/p>\n

The Goldwater was established in 1986 with Congressional support and in collaboration with the Department of Defense National Defense Education Program to provide a continuing source of highly qualified scientists, mathematicians, and engineers. Competition for the Goldwater (U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater; R-AZ 1909-1998) is intense colleges\/universities are allowed to nominate only four undergraduate students a year, making it a premier award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is the third time a Goldwater Scholarship has been awarded to an E-town Student Recently, Elizabethtown College junior Sara Luckenbill of Kutztown was honored with the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship. The scholarship, given in the natural sciences, engineering, and mathematics, is awarded annually to 300 college sophomores and juniors nationwide. The Goldwater Scholarship supports […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":7902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[490,1126,1205,1204,1203,691],"class_list":["post-7897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-achievements","tag-achievements-2","tag-biochemistry","tag-biotechnology","tag-goldwater-scholar","tag-goldwater-scholarship","tag-psychology","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7897"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7901,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7897\/revisions\/7901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}