Bill Flynn, a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences, won a 2009 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship - a science, math and engineering award, according to an AU press release.
He was one of 278 Goldwater recipients in the United States this year and competed with 1,097 other students to win the scholarship.
He plans to use the award to get a doctorate in condensed matter physics. Currently, Flynn is working on campus with Josh Lansky, a College of Arts and Sciences statistics professor, and Nathan Harshman, a CAS physics professor, with research on the quantum information theory of atoms and molecules.
The scholarship award was created in 1986 to advocate students to get careers in math, the natural sciences and engineering.
-ANNA TUMAN
