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Lilia Burtonpatel and Ram Narayanan, both members of Princeton’s Class of 2027, have been awarded Goldwater Scholarships. This annual award — now in its 40th year — supports "sophomores and juniors who aspire to become this nation’s next generation of researchers in science, engineering, and mathematics": https://bit.ly/4vIuJnw The scholarship program was created as part of the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation established by Congress in 1986 in honor of U.S. Sen. Barry Goldwater. Burtonpatel, from Brookline, Massachusetts, is majoring in ecology and evolutionary biology, with a minor in music. Before arriving on campus, Burtonpatel participated in the Novogratz Bridge Year Program in Indonesia. She went on to participate in numerous international experiences including interning with PanNature, a forest conservation nongovernmental organization based in Vietnam, through the International Internship Program and a semester study abroad in Panama through the Princeton Tropical Biology Program. Ram Narayanan is a physics major from Scarsdale, New York, with minors in computer science and applied and computational mathematics. He is a residential college adviser at New College West and a member of the Princeton Society of Physics Students.