Submitted by: Carl Frederickson, carlf@uca.edu on 08/25/2025
Senior August Childress has been awarded a 2025 Society of Physics Students (SPS) Leadership Scholarship. August is a physics major and mathematics minor. He has served as the President of the UCA Chapter (founded in 1968) of SPS since 2023. From the SPS Awards web site “Pursing a bachelors degree is a big financial commitment and we at SPS are excited and committed to providing funding to alleviate some of the costs. These awards are made to undergraduate physics and astronomy students on the basis of scholarship, SPS participation, and additional criteria.”
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