The Astronaut Scholarship

Candidates for Astronaut Scholarship Foundation scholarships are nominated by department heads and faculty members at 17 cooperating educational institutions. Two nominees from each school are submitted to a foundation Scholarship Committee chaired by Dr. Harvey A. Miller of the College of Natural Sciences at the University of West Alabama. Nominees must be at least third year college students, have excellent grades and must have participated in lab and research work in their field. With this background, the student is fairly well committed to continuing on this course. The Scholarship Committee selects one from each school and presents the 17 names to the foundation's Board of Directors for approval. In some cases, students have carried over their awards to a second or third year.

1999-2000 Astronaut Scholars

Scholar Major Discipline(s) University Melissa Bargmann Mechanical Engineering Tufts University Branch Coleman III Physics North Carolina A & T State University Theresa Debban Aeronautical and Aerospace Engineering Purdue University Karen Feigh Aerospace Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Belinda Fischer Mathematical Systems Engineering Harvey Mudd College Matthew Gerber Computer Science University of Central Florida Joseph Han Chemical Engineering Texas A & M University Amanda Kosty Microbiology University of Minnesota Diana Mastalerz Agricultural Biotechnology University of Kentucky Justin Montgomery Chemistry Miami University Robert Morris Statistics & Applied Mathematics North Carolina State University Eric Nussbaumer Aerospace Engineering University of Colorado Benjamin Paulson Physics Washington University Joey Rexine Chemistry North Dakota State University Matthew Schneider Aeronautics and Astronautics University of Washington Douglas Sheridan Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Pennsylvania State University Anthony Vinciquerra Aerospace Engineering Syracuse University

Lisa Beeson, a three-time foundation scholarship recipient at Georgia Tech and now the Senior Vice President of Engineering and Manufacturing at Control Center, Inc., voluntarily helps by serving on the Scholarship Committee and producing a yearly newsletter about activities of present and former scholarship winners. She also has established a network of former scholars who are carrying the message of the foundation. This alumni organization is called the Astronaut Scholars Honor Society. Each year at the annual Astronaut Scholarship Foundation Board of Directors meeting, board members host an event to which all former scholars are invited. This provides an opportunity for the astronauts and other board members to become acquainted with the scholarship winners and for the scholars to meet with the astronauts.

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