Jessica Ye '12 and Sophia Porrino '11 have received 2010 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships. This year's 278 Goldwater scholars were chosen for academic merit from a field of 1,111 mathematics, science and engineering students nationwide. The scholarships cover tuition, fees, books, and room and board up to $7,500 per year.

Ye, a biology and chemistry major in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) from Saratoga, Calif., would like to pursue an M.D. with a Ph.D. in immunology and eventually work in a university hospital. Ye plays clarinet, piano and percussion instruments and is a member of Cornell's wind symphony, CU Winds. She also conducts research in the lab of Dan Luo, professor of biological and environmental engineering, and conducted summer research in labs at the Stanford University School of Medicine in 2008 and 2009.

Porrino, a College Scholar with a focus in neuroscience and psychobiology in A&S from Englewood Cliffs, N.J., plans to pursue a Ph.D. in neuroscience with a specialty in depression and anxiety. Also a 2010 Amgen scholar, Porrino has been funded for 10 weeks of research this summer at Columbia University, where she will study the neurocircuitry of psychiatric disease. She has been a science writer with The Cornell Daily Sun since 2008.

In addition, Cornell junior Max Liu, an A&S biological science major focusing on neurobiology and biochemistry, received an honorable mention from the Goldwater scholars program.

In its 24-year history, the Goldwater Scholarship Program honoring Sen. Barry M. Goldwater has awarded 6,079 scholarships worth close to $56 million.

Of the 49 Cornellians who have earned Goldwater scholarships since 1991, one went on to become a Rhodes scholar, five became Marshall scholars, five Churchill scholars and three Hertz fellows.

For more information about the Goldwater scholarship program, contact Beth Fiori at btf1@cornell.edu.