The Astronaut Scholarship Foundation has chosen Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ honors student Christopher Frye as one of its 2012 recipients and will present him with a $10,000 check during the Knights\u2019 Oct. 4 football game at Bright House Networks Stadium.<\/p>\n
Frye, a double-major in physics and mathematics, will be given the check by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell during a second-quarter break in the football action against East Carolina University. Kickoff is scheduled for 8 p.m.<\/p>\n
Mitchell, the sixth astronaut to walk on the moon, has been invited to the president\u2019s box to view the game, said Dean Alvin Wang of the Burnett Honors College.<\/p>\n
Frye traveled to Switzerland this summer to participate in a Research Experience for Undergraduates at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research.<\/p>\n
He hopes to pursue a Ph.D. in mathematical physics with a specialization in high-energy theory. He also wants to conduct research in string theory and eventually teach at a university.<\/p>\n
The astronaut scholarship is given to undergraduate STEM students \u00a0based solely on merit. The foundation annually awards 28 scholarships, and since 1986 has disbursed nearly $3.5 million to students nationwide.<\/p>\n
Astronauts are traveling to 13 universities in September and October to present this year\u2019s scholarships, including trips to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Southern California and Georgia Tech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Astronaut Scholarship Foundation has chosen Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ honors student Christopher Frye as one of its 2012 recipients and will present him with a $10,000 check during the Knights\u2019 Oct. 4 football game at Bright House Networks Stadium. Frye, a double-major in physics and mathematics, will be given the check by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell during a second-quarter break in the…","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":41309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-twocol.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[650,7020,982,1810,3024,3715,4163,4430],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-41308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colleges","tag-burnett-honors-college","tag-christopher-frye","tag-college-of-sciences","tag-football","tag-mathematics","tag-physics","tag-scholarships","tag-stem"],"yoast_head":"\n