CEMS student named 2023 Goldwater Scholar

Fred Tutt, a junior undergraduate student majoring in materials science and chemistry, has been named a 2023 Goldwater Scholar by the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation. The prestigious, competitive scholarship is awarded annually to outstanding sophomores and juniors who intend to pursue research-oriented careers in mathematics, the natural sciences, and engineering. The scholarship awards up to $7,500 per year for two years of undergraduate study. This year, 413 Scholars were selected nationwide from a field of 1,267 students who were nominated by their colleges and universities. The Goldwater Foundation has now awarded a total of 10,283 scholarships since its inception.

 

Two other undergraduate students in the College of Science and Engineering were also selected as Goldwater Scholars. Ethan Ashbrook is majoring in chemistry and Jamison Ward is an earth and environmental sciences major.

 

Tutt of Appleton, Wis. plans to pursue a PhD in materials science with an emphasis on electronic materials. He is particularly interested in work that combines fundamental science in this area with applications to address issues of energy efficiency. Since joining the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science (CEMS), Tutt has conducted research in Professor Chris Leighton's laboratory on metallic delafossite materials, which represent the most conductive oxides known. His work on these materials focuses on understanding the origin of their unique electronic properties through synthesis and characterization of high quality single crystal samples. He is currently working on understanding the evolution of magnetic order and its effects on electronic transport in substitutional systems of these materials.

"I am incredibly grateful to have been selected for this award. I love the work I do and receiving both recognition and support will help me continue pursuing my passion for materials research," said Tutt.

Many of the Scholars have published their research in leading professional journals and have presented their work at professional society conferences. Goldwater Scholars have gone on to win an impressive array of prestigious post-graduate fellowships, among which are the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, Rhodes Scholarship, Marshall Scholarship, Churchill Scholarship, Hertz Fellowship, DOE Computation Science Graduate Fellow-ship, and the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship.

The Goldwater Foundation is a federally endowed agency established by Public Law 99-661 on November 14, 1986. The Scholarship Program honoring Senator Barry Goldwater was designed to foster and encourage outstanding students to pursue research careers in the fields of the natural sciences, engineering, and mathematics. The Goldwater Scholarship is the preeminent under-graduate award of its type in these fields.

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