Twenty-one BYU students earned a combined $1.3 million in scholarship and fellowship awards in 1998.
Eight of the students were awarded National Science Foundation Fellowships, tying BYU for 22nd place–along with Dartmouth College and Carnegie Mellon University–in the number of NSF awards received. BYU’s NSF Fellowship recipients, their fields, and their chosen graduate schools are as follows: Daniel Austin (Aurora, Colo.), chemistry, California Institute of Technology; Deanne Clements (Buhl, Idaho), mechanical engineering, BYU; Nathan Crane (Richmond, Texas), mechanical engineering, school not yet determined; Bryce Harrison (Ladson, S.C.), organic chemistry, Harvard Univers ity; Barrett Kirwan (Pingree, Idaho), economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Frank McIntyre (Wichita, Kan.), economics, Stanford University; Jon Wallace (Brigantine, N.J.), electrical engineering, BYU; and D. Brian Walton (Orem, Utah), applied mathematics, University of Arizona. Santino C. Gaitan (Jackson, Mich.), won a minority NSF Fellowship and is studying experimental psychology at the University of California, San Diego.
Other noteworthy scholarship recipients include the following:
David Holland (Bountiful, Utah) received a Mellon Fellowship for graduate study in the humanities. He will attend Stanford University.
Roommates Brian Bishop (Nampa, Idaho), linguistics, and Jamal Qureshi (Gilbert, Ariz.), Near Eastern studies, were named Fulbright fellows. Both are enrolled in a year-long, intensive Arabic language program at the Center for Arabic Study Abroad, part of the American University in Cairo, Egypt.
Nathan Haws (Mesa, Ariz.), civil engineering, was awarded a Tau Beta Pi Fellowship for graduate study in engineering.
Revina Largo, a senior from New Mexico majoring in zoology, received a Morris K. Udall scholarship, the first ever awarded to a BYU student. The scholarship is given to Native Americans pursuing careers in health care.
Julie Kalani Smith (Laie, Hawaii), German literature and European studies, received a Phi Kappa Phi National Fellowship. She has begun graduate work in German languages and literature at Harvard University.
Shannon L. Takala (Los Alamos, N.M.), a junior majoring in chemistry, was named a Goldwater scholar.
Three BYU students accepted NIH/MSTP Fellowships, awarded to students planning combined MD/PhD study: Ranleigh Fleshman (Spanish Fort, Ala.) studying at Case Western Reserve University, Philip M. Robertson (Spanish Fork, Utah) at the University of Cincinnati, and Parley D. Fillmore (Sandy, Utah) at the University of Illinois.
