Caltech Students Receive Academic Merit Awards

PASADENA, Calif.--The California Institute of Technology has presented 48 undergraduate students with merit awards, which are based exclusively on a student's outstanding scholastic achievement, faculty recommendations, and demonstrated research productivity.

The one-year merit award stipends range from $5,000 to full tuition plus room and board for an academic year. Of the 48 winners, nine received awards in the highest amount of full tuition plus room and board; seven received awards of full tuition; 18 were recipients of awards that covered partial tuition; and 14 students received scholarships of $5,000.

The 2007-08 merit awards are made possible by the Stuart Foundation (Carnation Merit Scholarships), Lew and Edie Wasserman (Caltech Upperclass Merit Awards), the John Stauffer Scholarship (earmarked for chemistry and chemical engineering majors), and the Rosalind W. Alcott Scholarship.

With an outstanding faculty, including five Nobel laureates, and such off-campus facilities as the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Palomar Observatory, and the W. M. Keck Observatory, Caltech is one of the world's leading research universities. The Institute also conducts instruction in science and engineering for a student body of approximately 900 undergraduates and 1,200 graduate students, who maintain a high level of scholarship and intellectual achievement. U.S. News & World Report consistently ranks Caltech's undergraduate and graduate programs among the nation's best.