{"id":398,"date":"2017-04-03T00:07:12","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T00:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/?p=398"},"modified":"2017-04-03T03:14:42","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T03:14:42","slug":"physics-junior-mirek-brandt-named-national-goldwater-scholar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/2017\/04\/03\/physics-junior-mirek-brandt-named-national-goldwater-scholar\/","title":{"rendered":"Physics junior Mirek Brandt is named a National Goldwater Scholar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Physics Major Mirek Brandt was just named a National Goldwater Scholar!<br \/>\nPress release: <a href=\"https:\/\/goldwater.scholarsapply.org\/2017-scholars-press-release\/\">https:\/\/goldwater.scholarsapply.org\/2017-scholars-press-release\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>OSU&#8217;s last Goldwater Scholar winner was in 2013; most years there are only a couple successful nominations statewide (3 this year). \u00a0 OSU also had a second successful nominee this year, True Gibson, a Life Sciences major. Congrats!<\/p>\n<p>The Goldwater Scholarship was established by US Congress in 1986. Each year all universities nominate up to four undergraduates in science or engineering for one of ~240 Goldwater Scholarships.\u00a0 As all nominees are academically near the top of their school, the primary consideration at the National level becomes &#8220;the extent to which that individual has the commitment and potential to make a significant contribution to his or her field. This is judged by letter of references, essays written by the student, and prior research experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/files\/2017\/04\/goldwater.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-399 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spectrometer\/files\/2017\/04\/goldwater-300x281.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"352\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2237\/files\/2017\/04\/goldwater-300x281.png 300w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2237\/files\/2017\/04\/goldwater.png 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 352px) 100vw, 352px\" \/><\/a>Mirek will graduate in June 2018 as a Physics and Math major and plans to pursue graduate studies. Since his freshman year (Fall 2014), Mirek Brandt has been a member of Prof. Matt Graham&#8217;s\u00a0 Micro-Femto Energetics Lab.\u00a0 His research contributions are very substantial and we thank\u00a0 URSA-ENGAGE and SURE Science Summer Scholarship programs for funding his research.\u00a0 He will defend his undergraduate senior project thesis later this year entitled &#8220;The Impact of Crystal Morphology on Opto-Electronic Properties of Amorphous and Organic Crystalline Materials&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>To top off this National honor, Mirek was recently recognized internationally by being selected to attend the Kupcinet-Getz International Science School. This program matches top-undergraduates with leading research mentors at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel.\u00a0 Mirek will join a Theoretical Astrophysics group at Weizmann this summer before returning to Oregon State Physics to take-up his Goldwater Scholarship.<\/p>\n<p>On behalf of the OSU Physics Department, congratulations Mirek!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physics Major Mirek Brandt was just named a National Goldwater Scholar! Press release: https:\/\/goldwater.scholarsapply.org\/2017-scholars-press-release\/ OSU&#8217;s last Goldwater Scholar winner was in 2013; most years there are only a couple successful nominations statewide (3 this year). \u00a0 OSU also had a second successful nominee this year, True Gibson, a Life Sciences major. Congrats! 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