Ian Buller is one of 275 Goldwater awardees selected on the basis of academic merit from a field of 1,095 mathematics, science, and engineering students who were nominated by the faculties of colleges and universities nationwide. Ian is a junior majoring in EBIO and plans to specialize in disease ecology to identify unknown diseases in remote areas, study their emergence, and design control programs. He aspires to discover previously unknown diseases. Ian has worked in Pieter Johnson's lab since the spring of 2009 on the Amphibian Necropsy Task Force, where he is currently team leader. He has a forthcoming publication as co-author in the scientific journal Ecology. Ian is also a first year class advisor and participant in the President's Leadership Class, one of CU's premier leadership development programs.
The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program was designed to foster and encourage outstanding students to pursue careers in the fields of mathematics, the natural sciences, and engineering. The Goldwater Scholarship is the premier undergraduate award of its type in these fields.
Congratulations Ian!
