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NC State Students Win Udall, Goldwater Scholarships

Two North Carolina State University students are winners of prestigious national undergraduate scholarships.

Krystian Kozek of Apex, a junior majoring in materials science and engineering and chemistry, won a Goldwater Scholarship for the 2011-12 academic year. Garik Sadovy of Wake Forest, a junior majoring in materials science and engineering and minoring in environmental science, won a Morris K. Udall scholarship for the 2011-12 academic year.

An undergraduate researcher in the lab of materials science and engineering professor Dr. Joe Tracy, Kozek won an NC State 2010-11 Undergraduate Research Award, and will represent NC State at the 2011 ACC Meeting of the Minds, an undergraduate research symposium featuring students from all 12 Atlantic Coast Conference schools. He serves as treasurer of NC State’s chapter of the Materials Research Society. He has also been named to the Dean’s List. He plans on getting his Ph.D. in materials science and engineering, and teaching and conducting research at a university.

Kozek was among 275 Goldwater Scholarship winners from a field of 1,095 applicants. The scholarships cover the cost of tuition, fees, books, and room and board up to a maximum of $7,500 per year. They were designed to foster and encourage outstanding students to pursue careers in the fields of mathematics, the natural sciences and engineering.

Sadovy is among 80 recipients of the Udall Scholarship, out of a field of 510 applicants. He is a Park Scholar at NC State and a member of the University Scholars Program. He serves as president of Tau Beta Pi, a national engineering society. He has conducted research with a team that created a model to study environmental factors contributing to reduced populations of mammals called fishers in northern California and on DNA thin films. He plans on getting a Ph.D. and working at the intersection of materials and environmental sciences.

Udall Scholarships are valued at a maximum of $5,000 and are offered to second- and third-year undergraduate students committed to careers related to the environment, tribal public policy or Native American health care.

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