Meet BSA's 2024 Scholarship Awardees

Brookhaven Science Associates (BSA), which manages Brookhaven Lab for the U.S. Department of Energy through a partnership between Battelle and Stony Brook University, has awarded its 2024 BSA Scholarship to 20 recipients.

These annual scholarships are awarded to children of employees and retirees at the Lab — a longstanding tradition that began at Brookhaven in 1965.

Each BSA scholar is a high school senior who will receive $2,500 per year for up to four years of study at the college or university of his or her choice. The BSA scholars who are admitted and enroll as full-time students at Stony Brook University receive a matching scholarship from the university.

International Scholarship and Tuition Services (ISTS) administers the BSA Scholarships. Winners are selected by an independent scholarship committee that reports to ISTS.

Information for current high school seniors to apply for BSA scholarships for the fall of 2025 will publish in early December.

BSA Scholars

1. Claire Cannella
Parent: Steven Cannella, Campus Planning and Development Office
High school: Bellport High School|
College: Temple University
Intended major: Political science

2. Olivia Carroll
Parent: Thomas Carroll, Facilities & Operations Directorate
High school: Bayport-Blue Point High School
College: Undecided
Intended major: Kinesiology, nutrition

3. John Clarke
Parent: John Clarke, Human Resources Directorate

4. Braylen Faussete
Parent: Richard Faussete, National Synchrotron Light Source II

5. Brandon Feder
Parent: Russell Feder, Collider-Accelerator Department
High school: Princeton International School of Mathematics and Science
College: Pennsylvania State University
Intended major: Mathematics

6. Anna Fedotov
Parent: Alexei Fedotov, Collider-Accelerator Department
High school: Robert M. Grable Jr. Mount Sinai High School
College: University of California, Los Angeles
Intended major: Neuroscience

7. Judy Hu
Parent: Guobin Hu, National Synchrotron Light Source II
High school: Ward Melville High School
College: Cornell University
Intended major: Biomedical engineering

8. Emma Li
Parent: Hui Zhong, National Synchrotron Light Source II
High school: Ward Melville
College: Tufts University
Intended major: Undeclared

9. Audrey Malanga
Parent: Chris Malanga, Modernization Project Office
High school: Farmingdale High School
College: Iowa State University
Intended major: Industrial design

10. Grace Martin-Tsoupas
Parent: Nicholaos Tsoupas, Electron-Ion Collider
High school: Eastport-South Manor High School
College: The State University of New York at New Paltz
Intended major: Fine art

11. James McKeever
Parent: John McKeever, Counterintelligence Office
High school: Chaminade High School
College: Loyola University Chicago
Intended Major: Biology

12. Victoria Pendzick
Parent: Alexander Pendzick, Facility Operations Center, and Joanna Pendzick, Stakeholder Relations Office
High school: Center Moriches High School
College: Rochester Institute of Technology
Intended Major: Undeclared

13. Alexander Polyansky
Parent: Dmitry Polyansky, Chemistry Division
High school: Mount Sinai High School
College: Colby College
Intended major: Biology

14. Kevin Shi
Parent: Hai Shi, Biology Department
High school: Ward Melville
College: Northeastern University
Intended major: Computer science and linguistics

15. Emma Venegoni
Parent: Michael Venegoni, Laboratory Protection Division
High school: Miller Place High School
College: SUNY Geneseo
Intended major: Childhood education

16. Gwendolyn Vignato
Parent: Gabriel Vignato, Environmental and Climate Science Department
High school: West Sayville Christian School
College: St. Joseph's University
Intended major: Business administration

17. Benjamin Wu
Parent: Qin Wu, Center for Functional Nanomaterials
High school: Ward Melville High School
College: Duke University
Intended major: Applied math and economics

18. Alan Yue
Parent: Meng Yue, Interdisciplinary Science Department
High school: Miller Place High School
College: Purdue University
Intended major: Biomedical engineering

19. Maximilian Zanoni
Parent: Firoza Zanoni, Safety and Health Services Division
High school: St. John the Baptist Diocesan High School
College: Providence College
Intended major: Healthcare policy and administration

20. Michael Zhang
Parent: Ping Liu, Chemistry Division
High school: Ward Melville High School
College: Cornell University
Intended major: Computer science

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