CU Engineering Student Wins Prestigious Goldwater Scholarship

Ashley Moore, a senior from Parker, Colo., is one of three CU-Boulder students awarded the 2005-06 Goldwater Scholarship, a prestigious national scholarship recognizing excellence in math, science, and engineering. 

The Goldwater Scholarship, established in 1986 in honor of Sen. Barry M. Goldwater, was awarded to 320 students across the country based on academic merit and will provide up to $7,500 for each student’s educational expenses.

The award comes on the heels of a $10,000 scholarship Ashley received from the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation last year along with aerospace engineering classmate Erin Reed. The Astronaut Scholarship Foundation, which was established in 1984 by the Mercury Seven astronauts, awarded just 17 scholarships for 2004-05 to support promising juniors, seniors, and graduate students in engineering and the physical sciences.

Ashley is working towards a double degree in applied mathematics and aerospace engineering, and has several research interests. In applied math, she works with Professor Keith Julien studying numerical solutions to nonlinear partial differential equations. Eventually, they will study the equations that describe Bose-Einstein condensation, a phenomenon discovered by Nobel Prize winning CU-Boulder professors Carl Wieman and Eric Cornell.

She also is working on NASA-sponsored research in the aerospace engineering department's structural dynamics and control lab, under the direction of Professor Lee Peterson. Moore has done computer simulations and design of test hardware and new designs for the development of a special telescope. She also worked on the structural design of some of the telescope's components.

Ashley also is one of the founding fellows in the CU Engineering Fellows honorary service organization, which promotes academic excellence in the college through peer academic support.

After a summer 2005 internship at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and her senior year at CU-Boulder, Moore plans to earn a doctorate and would like to work at NASA or in academia researching spacecraft design.

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