Two NC State students were awarded the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship among 300 college sophomores and juniors nationwide. The scholarship is one of the most prestigious undergraduate awards given in the sciences and is awarded to students pursuing research careers in science, math and engineering. The two NC State students who won the scholarship are William Crumpler and Catherine McVey. 

Crumpler is a junior studying materials science and engineering and plans to get his Ph.D. in materials science and engineering or chemistry. His future plans are to conduct research on the synthesis and applications of nanomaterials and teach at the university level. 

McVey is a senior studying animal science and statistics. She plans to get her Ph.D. in applied animal behavior and aspires to develop new computational and statistical approaches to better study food animal welfare. 

NC State outnumbered Harvard, Princeton and University of California-Berkeley in the number of Goldwater recipients this year. Each university had one student received the award. 

In the past five years, thirteen NC State students have received the Goldwater Scholarship.