Computational Modeling and Data Analytics program honors its latest scholarship award recipients

Twenty-five students were honored at the Computational Modeling and Data Analytics (CMDA) program’s annual scholarship dinner held April 12 at the Inn at Virginia Tech and Skelton Conference Center.

The largest group of award recipients were granted the Luther & Alice Hamlett Scholarship. Luther Hamlett, who died in 2016, graduated from Virginia Tech in 1945 with a bachelor’s degree in biology before earning his M.D. from the Medical College of Virginia. He and his wife, Alice, who passed away in 2008, were among the College of Science’s most generous donors; their endowed scholarship was established through a bequest from their estate and supports students in the college, including those majoring in computational modeling and data analytics, which is part of the Academy of Data Science.

Other scholarship awards announced at the dinner included the CMDA Alumni Scholarship and CMDA Outstanding Senior Award, both supported by the CMDA Annual Fund.

All three scholarship awards stress the importance of academic and research success. Recipients of the Hamlett Scholarship and CMDA Alumni Scholarship – which are both open to freshmen, sophomores, and juniors – come from a single pool of student applications. Meanwhile, the Outstanding Seniors Award requires a faculty nomination.

A full list of this year’s award winners follows: