UM National Scholarships Winners and Finalists 2020

Fulbright Winner

Wills Hays

Wills is a senior public policy leadership major with minors in Russian and intelligence and security studies will be teaching English in Moldova next year.

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Goldwater Scholarship Winners

Jax Dallas

Jax Dallas is a native of Caledonia, MS and has been fascinated with NASA since childhood when he would launch model rockets with his father from the cotton fields. Last year he completed an REU at the University of Southern California. He aims to pursue a PhD in physical chemistry. His goal is to work for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab.

William Meador

William Meador is junior from Carbondale, IL and is a pursuing a BS in Chemistry. William aims to pursue a PhD in Chemistry. He wants to become a teacher-scholar with a specialty in organic chemistry while mentoring graduate students to create novel molecules with innovative properties.

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NSEP Boren Winners

Caleb Ray

Caleb is a senior majoring in International Studies and Arabic who will use his Boren to complete his fifth-year capstone in Morocco.

Gabe Menchaca

Gabe is a senior majoring in International Studies and Flagship Chinese who will use his Boren to study Chinese and complete his capstone at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC) in Monterey, California.