Craig R. Holt Scholarship

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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Craig R. Holt

2026 Holt Scholarship Recipient

Athena Devashish: "I am originally from Clarksville, MD and I am most focused on multi-messenger astronomy research."

Jenna Guse: " I am originally from Rio, WI, and my research will be focused on neutrino oscillations."


 

2024 Holt Scholarship Recipient

John Glick: "I am currently most focused on condensed matter research although I am interested in branching out into nuclear or particle physics in grad school or wherever I end up after I graduate."

Sean Poczos: "I am focused on High Energy Experimental Physics. In particular, the search for the Right-Handed W boson at the CMS detector."


 
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John Glick

2024 Holt Scholarship Recipient

Gabriel Davlin: "While I am flexible and willing to explore many fields, I am most interested in research within particle physics."

Siddharth Gorregattu: "My research is focused on oxide superconductors such as doped barium bismuthate."


 
Gabriel Davlin

Gabriel Davlin

2023 Holt Scholarship Recipient

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.

 
Jocelyn Harrie and Anna Janni, Holt Scholarship recipients

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

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."
2021 Holt Scholarship

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.

2020 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.

2019 Holt Scholarship Recipient