WVU Students Win National Research Scholarships

Three West Virginia University students have each won a Goldwater Scholarship, a national award that supports undergraduate students with strong commitments to research careers in mathematics, engineering and natural sciences.

Juniors Henry Coyle, an aerospace engineering major, Corinne Hazel, an environmental microbiology major, and Grady King, a data science major, will each receive $7,500 annually for up to two years of undergraduate study to further their research.

The WVU students are just three of the 441 scholars chosen from a pool of more than 5,000 applicants this year.

Founded in 1984, the Goldwater Foundation is a federally endowed agency that has awarded 7680 Goldwater scholarships since 1989. The award honors the late U.S. Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona, and his lifetime interest in technology and the sciences.