04-22-94 John Wang Named Goldwater Scholar

OHIO STATE STUDENT FROM HILLIARD WINS GOLDWATER SCHOLARSHIP
     COLUMBUS -- John Wang of 5219 Redlands Drive, HILLIARD
(43026), a third-year student at The Ohio State University, has
been named to receive one of 250 scholarships for the 1994-95
academic year from the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and
Excellence in Education Foundation.
     The scholarships are awarded to undergraduate sophomores and
juniors from all 50 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, and
U.S. territories.
     The Goldwater Scholars are selected on academic merit.  More
than 1,400 mathematics, science and engineering students were
nominated by college and university faculties for the
scholarships.
     The scholarships cover the cost of tuition, fees, books and
room and board up to $7,000 per year.
     Wang plans to pursue a doctorate in microbiology and become
a research microbiologist and university professor.
     For the competition, Wang wrote an essay about about the
role of the gene orf1590 in the development of Streptomyces, a
genus of soil bacteria.  He has been assisting Kathleen E.
Kendrick, an associate professor of microbiology, in developing a
standard method of gene disruption for Streptomyces griseu.
     He is treasurer of Ohio Staters Inc., president of his
residence hall government, and a member of Helix, the biological
sciences honorary, and an Honors Ambassador.  He was a member of
Romophos, the sophomore honorary, and of the homecoming steering
committee.
     Frank Swenton of Columbus, an Ohio State student in
mathematics, won a Goldwater Scholarship last year.  This year,
Swenton won a National Scince Foundation pre-doctoral grant.  He
intends to study mathematics this fall in a doctoral program at
Princeton University.
     The Goldwater Foundation was established by Congress in 1986
to encourage outstanding students to pursue careers in math,
engineering and the natural sciences.
                                
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Contact:  John Wang, (614) 293-7507 or 771-4272, or Gerald J.
Smith, Goldwater Foundation, (703) 256-6012.


[Submitted by: GERSTNER  (gerstner@ccgate.ucomm.ohio-state.edu)
               
Fri, 22 Apr 1994 08:55:00 -0500 (EST)]
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