2012 John Mather Nobel Scholars


In July 2012, eleven summer interns at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in Maryland were awarded John Mather Nobel Scholarships by The National Space Grant Foundation, Inc. The funding for the scholarships originated in a generous contribution from the John and Jane Mather Foundation for Science and the Arts which in turn was funded from the award of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Physics to Dr. Mather.

The award consists in the designation “John Mather Nobel Scholar,” plus a $3000 scientific travel grant over a two year period.

The 2012 John Mather Nobel Scholars are:

  • Tareq Alosh - The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC
  • Wanda Archy - Georgetown University, Washington, DC
  • Emily Campion - University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, MN
  • Patrick Fischer - University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
  • Kyle Leaf - University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, Stevens Point, WI
  • Kevin Marlow - The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
  • John McGreevy - University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
  • Sreeja Nag - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
  • Aaron Pearlman - California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA
  • Viktoria Shikova - University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL
  • Garrett West - University of Rochester, Rochester, NY