November 4, 1996

ARCS Foundation awards $5,000 scholarships to eleven UCSC students

Eleven UCSC science students will receive $5,000 scholarships this week from the Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Foundation. The students will be honored November 6 at a ceremony in San Francisco.

Now in its 24th year of awarding scholarships, the northern California chapter of the ARCS Foundation will award 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.

--Robert Irion