Wow, Sterling! Congratulations on receiving Goldwater Scholarship

Wow, Sterling! Congratulations on receiving Goldwater Scholarship

Junior plant sciences major Sterling Evans is a recipient of the 2019 Goldwater Scholarship and a member of the campus Christian group, Veritas. Photo by Michael Cali.

“The Barry Goldwater Scholarship in Excellence Foundation looks for recipients who display a commitment to research in the natural sciences, mathematics, and engineering.”

“I started doing research with bacteria that promote growth in plants my freshman year in [Curators’ Professor of Plant Sciences] Gary Stacey’s lab,” says Evans, at the time a participant in MU’s Freshman Research in Plant Sciences (FRIPS) Program. “I fell in love with it. My sophomore year I was working in genome editing with soybeans.”

For more information: https://fellowships.missouri.edu/2019/black-and-goldwater/

About Barry Goldwater Scholarship: https://goldwater.scholarsapply.org/