Neuroscience major Allen Chen ’19 and biology major Audrey Goldfarb ’19 are the University’s 2018 recipients of the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship.

The senior from Warner Robins, Georgia, has crammed a lot into four years of college, and Kat Bakrania is not done learning. “When I graduate, I’m going to leave here with some really solid friendships and some amazing experiences.”

For the first time, two teams of University of Rochester students have been selected for the highly competitive national program that promotes peace and intercultural understanding.

Seven University of Rochester students are heading to Kenya, Belgium, Malaysia, South Korea, Laos, Russia, and Brazil as 2018-19 Fulbright scholars.

Rochester’s latest members of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious academic honor society will be formally inducted in a noon ceremony on Saturday.

Four undergraduates and two graduate students have been selected to receive National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships, providing support for US students pursuing graduate degrees in STEM fields.

Two recent Rochester graduates are among 92 students chosen worldwide to be Gates Cambridge Scholars—the most prestigious international postgraduate scholarship offered by the University of Cambridge.

Luke Meyerson ’18 and Blake Harriman ’16, ’18W (MS) — student workers in the Department of Political Science and the Medical Center’s Edward G. Miner Library, respectively — are 2018 student employees of the year.

Eighteen individuals and three groups will be honored at the College’s annual Student Life Awards, also known as the “Rockys.”

Sixteen University of Rochester students, the largest contingent from North America, will work at German research institutes this summer through the highly competitive DAAD RISE scholarship program.