STARS Program

Jacob Buursma and Stevie Fawcett received awards from the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program to cover tuition, fees, and books as well as room and board.

Thomas Ballinger is recognized as one of the top ten seniors among thousands in WSU’s 2023 graduating class.

Stephen Fawcett is making the most of his time as an undergraduate student at WSU, double majoring in microbiology and Spanish, while also having gained research experience in three labs.

Now in her second year of the Department of Integrative Physiology and Neuroscience’s doctorate program in neuroscience, Kyra Parker is working on identifying neuronal signaling pathways that are involved in neurodevelopment and how exercise can influence the pathways.

Bayley McDonald is a genetics and cell biology major in the School of Molecular Bioscience and is a member of the college’s prestigious accelerated degree program, Students Targeted toward Advanced Research Studies (STARS), in which students can earn a PhD in as little as seven years after graduating high school.

WSU alumnus Seth Schneider is one of 551 selected for the prestigious Presidential Management Fellows Program

The scholarships are given to high‑achieving undergraduates pursuing science careers.

As a student in the STARS and MARC programs, microbiology major Natasha Puzon finds herself in a state-of-the-art laboratory working to determine the effectiveness of a promising antibody against a deadly species of hantavirus.

Where are you from and where did you graduate high school? I am from Reno, Nevada, and I graduated high school from North Star Online School while dual enrolled in Truckee Meadows Community College. I am pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in music, as well as a Bachelor’s of Science in genetics and cell biology.  […]

He once wrote a novel about a zombie apocalypse.