Ankur Luthra is a double major in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering and Business Administration. Ankur was named U.C. Berkeley's first Rhodes Scholars in fourteen years. In addition to winning the Rhodes, he has also won the prestigious Goldwater Scholarship, a Bechtel Corporation Scholarship, an Accenture Scholarship, among many others. Ankur is also founding president of a non-profit computer literacy organization and editor of a Berkeley electrical engineering research journal. He has also done research in artificial intelligence, started a dot.com company and is active with Promise America. At Oxford, Ankur will pursue the M.Sc. in computer science.
Nathaniel Singer majors in Mathematics. Prior to winning the Goldwater scholarship, he has won a Datatel Scholarship and a National Science Foundation/American Mathematical Society Scholarship for study in Moscow. Nathaniel is the founder of the "Origin Lecture Series" at U.C. Berkeley and is currently founding a non-profit educational television production corporation. He is currently working on game theoretic problems and some problems using modeling ODE's. Nathaniel plans to dedicate his professional life to conducting research in areas related to probability and ergodic theory.
A double major in Economics and Environmental Science, Ryan Buckley plans to pursue career in environmental law and politics. He is the Coordinator of the U.C. Berkeley Student Recycling Education Program, a Commissioner with the City of Berkeley Youth Commission, and Coordinator of U.C. Berkeley's earth week for 2001, 2002, and 2003 and. In addition to pursuing a career in law, Ryan endeavors to one day pursue his entrepreneurial dream of establishing a business that serves as an example of social and environmental corporate sustainability.
Rachelle Callenback is a sophomore majoring in Molecular Environmental Biology. Rachelle has been conducting research in restoration ecology under the guidance of Dr. William Berry. She has also been awarded the prestigious Horace M. Albright Scholarship named for the famous environmentalist. In addition to pursuing a career as a environmental policy analyst, Rachelle wishes to teach environmental science with the Teach For America Program.
Aidan Craig, is a senior majoring in Physics and minoring in Philosophy. Aidan is also a recipient of the GoldwaterScholarship. With multi-year funding, he plans to earn a Ph.D. in physics at Cambridge. He'll specialize in condensed matter physics, which for him has a dual attraction. At Cambridge, Aidan will be a member of Eugene Terentjev's laboratory, which specializes in polymers that change shape under certain temperatures. Aidan will likely take up the study of theoretical aspects of these polymers.
Graduate student Simon Grote of the History Department also received the Gates Cambridge. He hopes to pursue at Cambridge a project allowing him to combine his current interests in the intellectual history of late antiquity with 17th and 18th century intellectual history. Simon will enroll in a one-year master's program in Political Thought and Intellectual History.
With a double major in Astrophysics and Physics, Kate will earn a master's degree in the Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics Department at Cambridge before returning to the US to pursue a Ph.D. She hopes to combine cosmology with particle physics to help shed light on the origins of the Universe.