Minh Trong Than, a junior MCD biology and biochemistry double major, is receiving the $10,000 Astronaut Scholarship from the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation, according to a CU news release.
Than, a 4.0 GPA student, will be honored on Monday, Oct. 18 at 1 p.m. at the Bechtel Collaboratory at the Discovery Learning Center in CU’s engineering college.
Than will receive the award during a presentation by former space shuttle astronaut Richard Truly.
According the release, the Astronaut Scholarship is the largest monetary award that science and engineering undergraduate students can receive in the U.S.
Contact CU Staff Writer Rose Heaphy at Josephine.heaphy@colorado.edu.
