{"id":7466,"date":"2016-04-27T09:41:37","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T13:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=7466"},"modified":"2022-03-23T10:22:38","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T14:22:38","slug":"goldwaterscholar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/goldwaterscholar\/","title":{"rendered":"Heyl Earns Goldwater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/04\/aoulWadhwa.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7467\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-7467 size-full\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/04\/aoulWadhwa.jpg\" alt=\"Heyl Scholar Raoul Wadhwa\" width=\"400\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/04\/aoulWadhwa.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/04\/aoulWadhwa-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Raoul Wadhwa \u201917<\/strong> has won the very competitive and nationally prestigious Goldwater Scholarship. The Goldwater Scholarship Program was created to encourage outstanding students to pursue research careers in mathematics, the natural sciences, or engineering and to foster excellence in those fields.<\/p>\n<p>Raoul will graduate in June 2017 with majors in chemistry and mathematics. At K he currently serves as the Civic Engagement Scholar for the Center for Civic Engagement\u2019s Spanish Medical Interpreting group. He coordinates students from K to serve as medical translators for Spanish-speaking patients and English-speaking staff, nurses, and doctors at a local medical clinic. &#8220;I first participated in this program as a first-year,&#8221; says Raoul, &#8220;and I enjoy working with a group of fellow students to improve the health of our community.&#8221; He has yet to decide where he will attend graduate school, but he has no uncertainty over his decision regarding his undergraduate education. &#8220;I am really glad that I was able to attend K,&#8221; says the Heyl scholar. &#8220;The relatively small community size fosters the building of close relationship with classmates and colleagues, and I value that about K.&#8221; According to <strong>Diane Kiino<\/strong>, the College\u2019s director of health sciences and community and global health, K\u2019s last Goldwater Scholar (<strong>Tibin John \u201915<\/strong>) also was a Heyl Scholar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raoul Wadhwa \u201917 has won the very competitive and nationally prestigious Goldwater Scholarship. The Goldwater Scholarship Program was created to encourage outstanding students to pursue research careers in mathematics, the natural sciences, or engineering and to foster excellence in those fields. Raoul will graduate in June 2017 with majors in chemistry and mathematics. 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The Goldwater Scholarship Program was created to encourage outstanding students to pursue research careers in mathematics, the natural sciences, or engineering and to foster excellence in those fields.<\/p>\n<p>Raoul will graduate in June 2017 with majors in chemistry and mathematics. At K he currently serves as the Civic Engagement Scholar for the Center for Civic Engagement\u2019s Spanish Medical Interpreting group. He coordinates students from K to serve as medical translators for Spanish-speaking patients and English-speaking staff, nurses, and doctors at a local medical clinic. &#8220;I first participated in this program as a first-year,&#8221; says Raoul, &#8220;and I enjoy working with a group of fellow students to improve the health of our community.&#8221; He has yet to decide where he will attend graduate school, but he has no uncertainty over his decision regarding his undergraduate education. &#8220;I am really glad that I was able to attend K,&#8221; says the Heyl scholar. &#8220;The relatively small community size fosters the building of close relationship with classmates and colleagues, and I value that about K.&#8221; According to <strong>Diane Kiino<\/strong>, the College\u2019s director of health sciences and community and global health, K\u2019s last Goldwater Scholar (<strong>Tibin John \u201915<\/strong>) also was a Heyl Scholar.<\/p>\n","comment_info":"No Comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7466"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9010,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7466\/revisions\/9010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7466"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_formats?post=7466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}