{"id":22,"date":"2020-02-05T20:44:24","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T20:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/scholarships\/?page_id=22"},"modified":"2020-02-10T18:18:53","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T18:18:53","slug":"goldwater-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/scholarships\/scholarship-details\/goldwater-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"Goldwater Scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Background:<\/strong>\u00a0 The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship was established by Congress in 1986 to honor Senator Goldwater and to endow a recognition program to foster excellence in science and mathematics.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Scholarships:<\/strong>\u00a0 About 300 grants of up to $7,500 to sophomores (for two years) or juniors (for one year) who are planning careers in science or mathematics and who plan to earn a Ph.D. Every American university may nominate up to four candidates.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Application:\u00a0 <\/strong>Biographical information, including activities, employment, research experience, professional aspirations, personal background, and an essay about a significant problem or issue in your field of study. Both high school and college transcripts are required.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who Should Apply:<\/strong>\u00a0 The Goldwater Scholarship is highly competitive. Almost all Furman winners have had grade-point averages of about 3.90; have had strong, long-term science-connected extracurricular activities and research experience; and plan to earn a Ph.D.<\/p>\n<p><strong>References:<\/strong>\u00a0 Three recommendations are required, at least two of which must be from faculty members in the student&#8217;s major. Students who have done collaborative research with a faculty member must have a recommendation from that person.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More Information:<\/strong>\u00a0 Visit the <a class=\"ApplyClass\" title=\"Goldwater website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.act.org\/goldwater\">Goldwater Scholarship website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Background:\u00a0 The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship was established by Congress in 1986 to honor Senator Goldwater and to endow a recognition program to foster excellence in science and mathematics. The Scholarships:\u00a0 About 300 grants of up to $7,500 to sophomores (for two years) or juniors (for one year) who are planning careers in science or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":6,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-22","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}