SLU Student Earns Prestigious STEM Scholarship
04/17/2025
Saint Louis University student Pascal Sikorski has earned a Goldwater Scholarship.
Sikorski, a junior pursuing a BS in Computer Science and a minor in Philosophy, earned the prestigious award after a lengthy interview process. The Goldwater Scholarship is a prestigious national undergraduate award for students in STEM who intend to pursue a career in STEM research after graduation.
Pascal Sikorski. Submitted photo.
Sikorski’s career goal is to earn his doctorate in computer science and become a professor. He seeks to research and improve the “interaction between intent-driven assistive robotics and humans through perception and dexterous manipulation.”
Last summer, Sikorski was a researcher at Caltech as a WAVE Fellow in the Advanced Mechanical Bipedal Experimental Robotics Lab (AMBER Lab), creating safety filters for movement in areas of uncertainty with robots. In 2025, he will do research at Oregon State University's Intelligent Machines and Materials Lab (IMML) on creating a robotic manipulation workflow to work alongside humans in the environmental sector.
Goldwater Scholars receive $7,500 towards their tuition and fees.
Over its 30-year history, Goldwater Scholarships have been awarded to thousands of undergraduates, many of whom have gone on to win other prestigious awards like the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Fellowship, Rhodes Scholarship, Churchill Scholarship and the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship that support our Scholars’ graduate school work.
The Goldwater Foundation awarded 441 new scholarships in 2025.
Those interested in applying for a Goldwater Foundation Scholarship or another nationally or internationally competitive scholarship or fellowship should contact Rebecca Muich, Ph.D., at rebecca.muich@slu.edu or visit the Office of Competitive Fellowships and Scholarships webpage for more information.
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