Graney Scholarship Recipients

Marshall J. Graney Scholarship

In honor of Professor Homer T. Mantis, a meteorological physicist who was a member of our faculty for over 30 years. This scholarship provides support to full-time undergraduates working towards a degree in Physics.

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2026 Marshall Graney Scholarship

Mackenzie Steiner: "I am from Kewaskum, Wisconsin. I am most focused on optomechanical engineering, with research in telescopic engineering and optics. I would like to continue working on telescopic instrumentation work, as I have done in undergrad, with an emphasis on space telescopes."

Emily Anderson:

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Urva Jha: "I'm from Edina, Minnesota, and I'm most interested in the intersection of pure math and physics applications!"

2025 Marshall Graney Scholarship

Simon Goss-Grubbs: "I am researching gravitational waves, specifically using them to estimate parameters of binary neutron stars."

Thomas Nelson: "I am double majoring in physics and astrophysics, and I hope to do research on planets and planetary systems. I have always had a love for space, and it is my dream to be able to study it myself."

three men standing, two accepting award

2023 Marshall Graney Scholarship

Richard Kanak

2022 Marshall Graney Scholarship

Campbell Haasch
Campbell is originally from Omaha, Nebraska. He plans to use the money to pay for tuition. "I am most focused on Cosmology and applications of machine learning to data processing."
 
Alina Kaliszewski
Alina is originally from Rochester, Minnesota. Her scholarship will be put toward tuition for her senior year at the University of Minnesota. "My primary research interest is in cosmology, particularly Active Galactic Nucleus galaxies and the Hubble constant."
Campbell Haasch, Alina Kaliszewski

2021 Marshall Graney Scholarship

Jamison Ward
Jamison is originally from Zimmerman, MN. This summer, he will work with Professor Lindsay Glesener in the University’s Small Satellite Research Laboratory. His research will concern characterizing the x-ray detectors on the IMPRESS CubeSat, a solar science mission that will investigate poorly understood phenomena related to solar flares. Jamison plans to use the scholarship funds for tuition expenses.
 

 

2024 Marshall Graney Scholarship Recipients

Theodore Parker: "I am mainly interested in high energy physics research. Neutrino physics specifically."

Theodore Parker