Craig R. Holt Scholarship
Craig R. Holt

Endowed by UMN Physics alumnus Dr. Craig R. Holt, this scholarship is intended to support learning outside of the classroom by sponsoring student research in the field.

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2023 Holt Scholarship Recipient

Jocelyn Harrie and Anna Janni, Holt Scholarship recipients
Jocelyn Harrie
Jocelyn is originally from Grand Forks, North Dakota. "While I quite enjoy most areas of Physics in general, I'm particularly interested in Cosmology. Specifically the continued development and expansion of the Standard Model to include currently unexplained physical phenomena."
 
Anna Janni
Anna is from Des Moines, Iowa, and she does condensed matter research with the Dahlberg Lab.
 

2022 Holt Scholarship Recipient

Daniel Faragher
Daniel is originally from Savage, Minnesota. He plans to use the scholarship money for tuition and living expenses. He is most interested in high energy physics.
 
Annie Warren
Annie is originally from Apple Valley, Minnesota. "I plan to use the award money to contribute to the great physics research going on here at the U- it's an honor to be able to participate! The research area I intend to study is experimental condensed matter physics. I originally became interested in this specific area because of my dad, who is a big reason I'm studying physics in the first place! He has always encouraged and nurtured my interest in science. His career specifically involves work with semiconductors and superconducting materials, so I have some familiarity with the subject through him, and I find it to be a fascinating avenue of research."

2020 Holt Scholarship Recipient

2021 Holt Scholarship
Benjamin Leiran
Benjamin is from Eagan, Minnesota. He is looking to explore a research project in biophysics for the coming academic year, and plans to use the scholarship funding to support that research and the time commitment that it entails. "I'm most interested in applying physics and the first-principles based thinking that comes with it to areas outside of the traditional subdisciplines (condensed matter, high energy, cosmology, etc.). After studying physics for the past three years at the University, I've come to value the problem solving skills that I've learned as much as the understanding of the subject itself, and I aspire to carry those skills with me in whatever future endeavors I choose."

2020 Holt Scholarship Recipient

2020 Holt Scholarship Recipient
Kiet Pham

Kiet is originally from Danang, Vietnam and his research is in computational astrophysics and cosmology. He is planning to use the scholarship to help pay his tuition as well as help funding his research with Professor Vuk Mandic, studying the stochastic background of gravitational wave using LIGO data.

2019 Holt Scholarship Recipient

2019 Holt Scholarship Recipient
Kole Yu

Kole is originally from China. She plans to use the scholarship to help pay her tuition and buy textbooks. This summer, she will be doing research on electronic transport of one-dimensional van der Waals material.