November 6, 1996 Contact: Robert Irion (408) 459-2495; irion@ua.ucsc.edu

ARCS FOUNDATION AWARDS $5,000 SCHOLARSHIPS TO ELEVEN UCSC STUDENTS

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

SANTA CRUZ, CA--Eleven science students at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have received $5,000 scholarships from the Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Foundation. The students were honored today (November 6) at a ceremony in San Francisco.

Now in its 24th year of awarding scholarships, the northern California chapter of the ARCS Foundation awarded nearly $500,000 to about 80 graduate and undergraduate students at eight universities in the region for the 1996-97 academic year. UCSC's winners are as follows:

Krista Clements worked on biodiversity conservation while earning a master's degree at the University of Georgia. She is now studying writing in UCSC's Science Communication Program.

David Dahle, a senior, majors in both computer engineering and physics. His interests include computer architecture, algorithms, the theory of hardware testing, and hardware design.

Jeremy Heyl is pursuing a Ph.D. in astronomy and astrophysics. He has published several papers on mergers of colliding galaxies and galaxy formation, and he now studies neutron stars.

Jonathan Knight, a student in the Science Communication Program, has a Ph.D. in molecular biology from UC Berkeley. His dissertation focused on gene regulation in viruses.

Lynn Fong Lee, a senior in chemistry and biochemistry, is a Regents' Scholar and an officer in the Alpha Phi Omega service organization. She hopes to work in the pharmaceutical industry.

Kimberley Marcellini is exploring the relationship between protein structure and function as a senior in chemistry and biochemistry. Her goal is a chemistry Ph.D., focusing in biomedicine.

Camille Mojica earned a Ph.D. in integrative biology from UC Berkeley before enrolling in the Science Communication Program. She studied the evolution of behavior in freshwater fish.

Laura Moore is in the fourth year of her Ph.D. program in earth sciences. Her research concerns coastal issues, such as shoreline erosion, saltwater intrusion, and the impacts of seawalls.

Eric Rice, a senior in computer science, is helping to develop a new parallel processor. A hybrid algorithm he devised will form the core of the processor's basic mathematics library.

Kendall Smith III is working toward his Ph.D. in physics, with a specialty in geophysical fluid dynamics. He is particularly interested in the regional-scale dynamic flows of pollutants.

Tracy Washburn came to the Science Communication Program from the University of Notre Dame, where she received a Ph.D. in biology. Her work probed the immune systems of mice.

The ARCS Foundation was established in 1958 in Los Angeles. It is now a national nonprofit organization providing support for top college science students throughout the country.

Editor's note: Call Robert Irion at (408) 459-2495 for more information about any of the recipients.

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