Los Alamos scholarship fund awards 40 scholarships

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LOS ALAMOS, N.M., April 29, 2002 -- Forty high school seniors and college students will be recognized as 2001-2002 Department of Energy Los Alamos National Laboratory Employees' Scholarship Fund recipients at an award ceremony Wednesday (May 1) in Fuller Lodge downtown.

The award ceremony begins at noon. Prior to the awards ceremony, students will tour Los Alamos' Bradbury Science Museum and receive briefings about their scholarship and their jobs at the Laboratory this summer.

Among the scholarship recipients are Gretchen Ryan of McCurdy High School in Española. Ryan will receive a four-year, $10,000-a-year platinum scholarship.

Milo Lin, a Los Alamos High School senior, will receive a honorary platinum scholarship. Lin was initially a top finalist for a scholarship, explained Debbi Wersonick of Los Alamos' Community Relations Office. However, after he was notified that he would be receiving a full scholarship to attend the California Institute of Technology Lin asked that his scholarship be given to another deserving student.

In addition, Britta Lindquist of St. Michael's High School in Santa Fe and Lara Manzanares of Escalante High School in Tierra Amarilla will receive $2,500-a-year silver scholarships for four years.

Thirty other scholarship recipients will receive $1,000 one-year renewable scholarships, while seven students are receiving one-year $2,000 Compaq Corp. scholarships.

"The Los Alamos Employees' Scholarship Fund continues to deliver on its promise to help deserving students in the area to get a great education and a great summer job experience at the Laboratory, and, at the same time, help the Laboratory prepare a work force for tomorrow," said Al Sattelberger, Los Alamos' Chemistry Division leader and president of the Laboratory Foundation board of directors.

Students receiving $1,000 college scholarships and the school they currently attend are as follows: Maria Alvarado of Santa Cruz, N.M. now attending the University of Denver; Gabriel Brown of McCurdy High School; Elena Gonzales and Slany Shine of Jemez Valley High School; Jennifer Hauge and Zachary Ortiz of St. Michael's High School; Steven Honig, Milo Lin, Austin Minnich and William Nichols of Los Alamos High School; Gina La Cerva and Michael Lantz of Santa Fe Preparatory School; Adam Manzanares of Española Valley High School; Jennifer Padilla of New Mexico State University; Jaime Peterson of University of California, Berkeley; Stephanie Redman of Pojoaque High School; Joaquin Ruiz of Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Martin Segura and Diego Lucero of Pecos High School; Keith Summers of Las Vegas Robertson High School; Gregory Trujillo of Westwood College of Technology; Eli Van Cleve of Carnegie Mellon University; Nicole Willburn of Taos High School; Joshua Willerton of Kettering University; Jennifer Bartels of Santa Fe High School; Jeremy Barton of Mesa Vista High School; Jacqueline Muller of Pojoaque High School; Jose Gallegos of Questa High School; Brandon Whitehead of Capital High School in Santa Fe; and Marcos Medina of Mora High School.

The seven, $2,000 Compaq Corp. scholarship recipients are Arlen Beers-Green, a home-school student in Santa Fe, Victoria Cruz of Mora High School, Triston McDonald of Cuba High School, Monica Michelotti of Los Alamos High School, Ike Okoro of Las Vegas Robertson High School, Rachel Spears of Taos High School and Lindsay Vasquez-Tator of Dulce High School.

This year, five students also will receive scholarships through the Endowed Leadership Scholarship Fund created in 2000 by Laboratory Director John Browne and his wife, Marti. This fund was created to fund scholarship opportunities for Northern New Mexico students with significant financial need. These students also have demonstrated outstanding leadership qualities and achievements in their home, school and community.

The Endowed Leadership Scholarship Fund recipients are: Jacqueline Muller of Pojoaque High; Jose B. A. Gallegos of Questa High School; Brandon Whitehead of Capital High School; Marcos Medina of Mora High School; and Rachel Spears of Taos High School.

Eli Van Cleve and Jaime Peterson are repeat scholarship recipients.

Los Alamos National Laboratory is operated by the University of California for the National Nuclear Security Administration of the U.S. Department of Energy and works in partnership with NNSA's Sandia and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories to support NNSA in its mission.

Los Alamos enhances global security by ensuring the safety and reliability of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile, developing technical solutions to reduce the threat of weapons of mass destruction and solving problems related to energy, environment, infrastructure, health and national security concerns.

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