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Brenda Palacios Rodriguez

Blue Sky Scholars: Brenda Palacios Rodriguez

The Blue Sky Scholarship is helping Brenda Palacios Rodriguez follow her passions and partake in career-enhancing experiences such as studying abroad in northern Spain, where she took art classes and hiked the ancient Camino de Santiago. The Blue Sky Scholars Program gives students from middle-income, North Carolina families scholarship support, work-study employment opportunities, an enrichment award to support internship or study abroad opportunities, and access to academic, personal and career support.

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    Nihar Vaidya

    Nihar Vaidya, who is a computer science major with a minor in neuroscience, has earned a place on the Dean’s List every semester and was named a CSS Distinguished Scholar. He also founded a Carolina chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery, a global organization dedicated to supporting students and professionals in computer sciences and computing fields. He contributed to the work of researchers who are bridging the fields of computer science and neuroscience within Carolina’s Department of Computer Science.

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    Noah Legall ’18

    Noah Legall spent his college years looking for ways to combine his interests in biology and computer science. He landed on quantitative biology, and spent four years exploring research topics with Dr. Bill Marzluff in the UNC School of Medicine’s Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics. He's now pursuing a Ph.D. at the University of Georgia’s Institute of Bioinformatics, where he uses computer science, math and statistics to analyze biological data—specifically, bacteria.