Goldwater award for MSU senior

STARKVILLE, Miss. – Mississippi State University senior physics major, Nicholas “Nic” Ezzell of Laurel, Miss., has received the Barry Goldwater Scholarship. It is the fourth time in seven years an MSU student has received the scholarship. Ezzell is also the only Mississippian to receive the honor this year. The Virginia-based Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation serves as a memorial to the former U.S. senator and presidential candidate. The foundation recognizes undergraduate majors in science, mathematics, engineering and computer disciplines, and helps ensure a continuing source of highly qualified professionals in these fields. An aspiring computational physicist, Ezzell has accumulated significant research experience as an undergraduate in the MSU chemistry department and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge (Tenn.) National Laboratory. He is to return this summer to Oak Ridge to work on the development of quantum computing software. (Source: Mississippi State University 04/04/18)