Biology senior Myra Khan in the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics and computer science senior Jack Le in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science are among the 441 students selected for Goldwater Scholarships this year from a pool of more than 5,000 applicants. From those, 1,350 science, engineering and mathematics students were nominated by 445 academic institutions to compete for the 2025 scholarships. But being here sparked a passion for research that fueled my goal of integrating science with patient care,” she said. Le is especially interested in the interdisciplinary aspects of computer science. Then, he discovered that he could combine his interest in art and languages — in addition to Japanese and English, he speaks Latin, French and Vietnamese — with computer science.