Anton Gereau III, first-year student, has been awarded the 2005-2006 American Physical Scholarship for Minority Undergraduate Physics Majors.

This program, which began in 1980, has graduated students who have received their Ph.D.s in physics and are now working as physics faculty members in universities, as well as research scientists at corporations and national labs. Some past scholars have also become high school physics teachers.

Each year, the APS Committee on Minorities in Physics (COM) acts as the selection committee for this scholarship, which attracts many excellent applicants. The award consists of $2000 per year for new corporate scholars, and $3000 per year for renewal students to be used for tuition, room & board, educational materials. In addition, each physics department that hosts one or more APS minority undergraduate scholars and assigns a mentor for their student/s will receive a $500 award for programs to encourage minority students.

Published September 9, 2005