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Provides financial assistance to qualified undergraduate students majoring in Astrophysics in the School of Physics and Astronomy. It recognizes the importance of astrophysics as a core science and aims to encourage capable and motivated students to pursue careers in this discipline.
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Katie Chworowsky won the 2018 Swanson Scholarship in Astrophysics.
Lance Davis wins the 2018 Hazel Swanson Scholarship for Undergraduate Astrophysics. Davis is from Zimmerman, MN. He plans to use the award to pay for tuition. His research is in the field of space physics. I am investigating how electromagnetic waves near interplanetary shocks affect particle distributions. He is also involved with the FOXSI project.
Katherine Chworowsky won the 2017 Hazel Swanson Scholarship for Undergraduate Astrophysics.
Alex Igl received the 2017 Hazel Swanson Scholarship for Undergraduate Astrophysics.
Irene Moskowitz won the 2017 Hazel Swanson Scholarship for Undergraduate Astrophysics. She is originally from Minneapolis. She plans to use the scholarship to help finance a thru hike of the Appalachian Trail after she graduates next spring. The award money will help pay for some of the equipment she still needs. Moskowitz is currently working in Dr. Hanany's cosmology lab studying the cosmic microwave background for evidence of an inflationary period in the early universe.
Lukas Wiedman won the 2016 Hazel Swanson Scholarship in Undergraduate Astrophysics.
Alexander Igl won the 2016 Hazel Swanson Scholarship in Astrophysics.
Arpit Arora won the 2016 Hazel Swanson Scholarship in Astrohysics.