May 7, 2001 Accolades Robyn Hickerson The Cancer Research Fund of the Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Foundation has awarded a Runyon-Winchell postdoctoral fellowship to Robyn Hickerson. The three-year fellowship will support Hickerson's research in the laboratory of Harry Noller, Sinsheimer professor of molecular biology. This award is given to outstanding young scientists conducting theoretical and experimental research that is relevant to the study of cancer and the search for cancer causes, mechanisms, therapies, and prevention. Hickerson is studying the workings of the ribosome, a tiny molecular machine present in all cells that translates genes into proteins. Arend Van der Zande, Krishna Roskin Two UCSC undergraduates are recipients of the 2001 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship Awards. Physics student Arend Van der Zande and engineering student Krishna Roskin were selected on the basis of academic merit to receive this prestigious award. The Goldwater Foundation awarded 302 scholarships out of a field of 1,164 mathematics, science, and engineering students nominated by colleges and universities nationwide. The scholarships cover the cost of tuition, fees, books, and room and board up to a maximum of $7,500 per year.