Students have earned more than $187,000 in funding from Goldwater, UNCF/Merck, Clinton Scholarships and others

Carpenter, a Teach for America teacher and recent White House intern, will study the relationship between education and poverty.

The Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program has awarded University of Alabama at Birmingham seniors Ashley Foster and Markelle Smith $5,000 each to study abroad.

Recent UAB graduate Grace Benton, 21, has won a $5,000 Phi Kappa Phi fellowship.

As UAB’s second Fulbright winner this year, recent graduate Grace Benton will teach English in Jordan.

A UAB student has won a prestigious National Science Foundation grant; three UAB students received honorable mentions.

Joseph Olson, a junior in the UAB College of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded a scholarship to attend the prestigious Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD)-RISE summer internship program.

Mallick Hossain of Gadsden has been named a 2011 Goldwater Scholar; three other UAB students named Goldwater Honorable mentions.

Two undergraduate biology majors from UAB’s College of Arts and Sciences have been granted $35,000 United Negro College Fund Merck Science Research Scholarships, awards that may provide another $10,000 for the students’ UAB research laboratories.

UAB biology graduate student Andrew Coleman was awarded a 2011 John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship from the National Sea Grant.