{"id":59734,"date":"2021-05-12T08:06:53","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T13:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=59734"},"modified":"2021-05-12T08:06:55","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T13:06:55","slug":"honors-college-student-named-a-goldwater-scholar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=59734","title":{"rendered":"Honors College Student Named a Goldwater Scholar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By UNIVERSITY RELATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fort Hays State University Honors College student, sophomore Brynn Wooten, has been named a 2021 Barry Goldwater Scholar. This nationally competitive scholarship will fully fund her final two years of undergraduate study. Wooten is the first FHSU student to receive this prestigious award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wooten is a geosciences and\nbiology major from Westminster, Colorado. Her passion for science, especially\npaleobiology, began at a very young age. As a child, she convinced her parents\nto take a less direct route on family trips to visit relatives in Texas, so\nthat she could visit the Sternberg Museum of Natural History in Hays. During\nher college search process, Wooten learned of Sternberg Museum\u2019s affiliation\nwith Fort Hays State, and immediately decided she wanted to become a Tiger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In her Goldwater Scholarship\napplication package, Wooten shared her passion for investigating the\nintersection of paleontology and biology, along with her vision to become a\nresearch scientist. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFrom the moment Brynn arrived on\ncampus, her excitement about learning and focus on the future of scientific\nknowledge in paleobiology deeply impressed me,\u201d said Honors College Director\nDr. Kevin Amidon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amidon went on to say, \u201cHer\nqualifications for the Barry Goldwater Scholarship were clear to me from the\noutset, and she richly deserves the confidence that the Goldwater Foundation\nhas placed in her.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When most people think about\npaleontology, they think of dinosaurs. Wooten is not very interested in\ndinosaurs. Rather, she is fascinated by how other animals evolved after the\ngreat extinction of the dinosaurs more than 66 million years ago. Wooten plans\nto pursue a career studying paleoecology and teach at a university that hosts a\nnatural history museum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wooten credits several FHSU\nfaculty members for helping her secure this tremendous scholarship opportunity.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI am extremely happy and\nproud to bring this honor to Fort Hays State University, and I certainly could\nnot have gotten to this point without the amazing faculty and staff who work\nhere,\u201d said Wooten. \u201cI would like to especially thank Dr. Kevin Amidon and Dr.\nLexey Bartlett worked on the application with me, Dr. Lorelei Patrick and Drs.\nJeanne and Jonathan Sumrall helped me with letters of recommendation and\nclarifying my application, and Dr. Laura Wilson helped me with my final\nrevisions. All of them were absolutely instrumental in helping me realize this\ndream.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About the 2021 Goldwater\nScholarship Program<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Congress established the\nBarry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation in 1986 to\nserve as a living memorial to honor the lifetime work of Senator Barry\nGoldwater, who served his country for 56 years as a soldier and statesman,\nincluding 30 years in the U.S. Senate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From an estimated pool of\nover 5,000 college sophomores and juniors: 1256 natural science, engineering,\nand mathematics students were nominated by 438 academic institutions to compete\nfor the 2021 Goldwater scholarships. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Goldwater Scholarship\nProgram is one of the oldest and most prestigious national scholarships in the\nnatural sciences, engineering and mathematics in the United States. The program\nseeks to identify and support college sophomores and juniors who show exceptional\npromise of becoming this Nation\u2019s next generation of research leaders in these\nfields. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By UNIVERSITY RELATIONS Fort Hays State University Honors College student, sophomore Brynn Wooten, has been named a 2021 Barry Goldwater Scholar. 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