Anita Sue Kolman and Marvin L. Marshak Scholarship

In honor of Professor Marvin Marshak and his wife, Anita Kolman, the scholarship provides financial support for undergraduate students in good academic standing working towards a degree in physics or astrophysics (any year). Usable during any term, including summer.

Give to the Kolman-Marshak Scholarship

Hugo Kutz: 

Hunter Wytaske: "I'm originally from Woodbury, MN. Currently, I’m interested in planetary science, especially exoplanets, but I’m still exploring different areas within astrophysics to see what I want to focus on long term."

Matthew Spaulding: Originally from Woodbury, MN. Interested in Astrophysics (Large scale structure of the universe).

Oliver Stuhr: "I'm a first-year student from Saint Paul, Minnesota, planning on a double-major in physics and earth science. I haven't done any formal research as of yet, I'm currently looking for opportunities, but I'm largely interested in the processes surrounding planet formation and evolution, specifically that of planetesimal formation and differentiation."

Abdulrahman Baobaid: "My research interests are currently focused at an intersection between experimental plasma physics and AMO. I am currently involved in a laboratory plasma physics experiment to perform the first diagnostic measurements of low-temperature helium plasmas using two-photon laser-induced fluorescence technique."

Nathan Elango:"I am largely interested in theoretical condensed matter physics and quantum mechanics. As a double major in math and physics, these topics are wonderful for me due to the beautiful ways in which physics and abstract mathematics interact within them. I aim to solve applied, physical problems using a combination of techniques from math and physics. As for a specific subfield, I am quite interested in oxide glasses, due to their inherent randomization in structure. This provides the theorist with very little information to work with, which is a terrific challenge. There are a lot of important and immediate questions in oxide glasses which aren't well understood theoretically, and it could be interesting for me to try to make a few steps in the right direction. I am also working on mathematical research on random walks and partial differential equations under Robin boundary conditions, which are very connected to the fundamentals of my chosen subfields of physics and to ionic conductivity in glass. I have also just begun a theoretical project connecting quantum geometry to angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, which seems very interesting and is quickly becoming another topic of interest for me."

Mackenzie Steiner: "I am focused on telescope engineering. Specifically, I have joined a research group making a new optical transfer box for the Mount Lemmon Observational Facility in Arizona. I am currently working on adapters for the new camera system to fit on the existing telescope."

Justin Zhang

Giulia-Maria Bulugean
"I am originally from Craiova, Romania and I moved to the US about three years ago when I started college, but my whole family lives in Romania. I’m currently doing research in Particle Physics, with an emphasize on Dark Matter, but also Cosmology and I recently started doing some research also in Microgravity."

Ali Elhandi

​​​​Alina Kaliszewski
Alina is originally from Rochester MN. Her current area of research interest is anomalous Active Galactic Nucleus galaxies, but I hope to eventually pursue a career in Optics.

Catelyn Matchefts
Catelyn is originally from the Twin Cities. She plans to use the scholarship money to help pay for the cost of education. "I'm a first-year student pursuing a degree in astrophysics. My areas of interest are currently very broad, so I'm not doing any research yet."

Ben Trantrow
 

Jackson Timm
Jackson is from Lindstrom, Minnesota. He plans to use the scholarship money for future tuition expenses. He is currently working in a lab that focuses on particle physics and the engineering that goes into the building a of particle physics detector.