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Daniel
Hickstein Awarded Churchill Scholarship to Cambridge
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Daniel Hickstein, a Pomona College senior, has been named
one of only 12 Winston Churchill Scholars. The Churchill
Scholarship provides approximately $50,000 for one year of
study and research at Churchill College at the University of
Cambridge. The scholarship covers tuition, fees, travel
expenses, a living stipend, and a research grant.
Candidates were chosen based on exceptional academic
achievement; a capacity to pursue original, creative work
and to contribute to the advancement of knowledge in the
sciences, engineering, or mathematics; and outstanding
personal qualities as demonstrated by leadership, activities
and social engagement.
 Hickstein, a chemistry major with a math minor, will use his
scholarship to earn a Master’s degree in physics. His
research will focus on the interaction of x-rays with
crystals to explain why some molecules have interesting and
useful optical properties. Ultimately, he plans to work at
the intersection of chemistry and physics. When he returns
to the United States, he plans to pursue a doctorate degree
in physical chemistry.
As a student at Pomona College, Hickstein conducted research
with chemistry Professor Daniel O’Leary and co-authored
articles that were published in the Journal of American
Chemical Society and Heterocycles. During his
undergraduate summers, he was a research fellow at the
National Institute for Standards and Technology in Boulder,
Colorado, and completed two internships at the National
Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. In his junior
year, he received the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, which
is annually awarded to 300 high-achieving undergraduates.
Hickstein attended Garfield High School in Seattle,
Washington, for two years, and is a graduate of Walt Whitman
High School in Bethesda. He is the son of Dennis Hickstein
and Mary Musselman, who are residents of Bethesda, and is
the brother of Matthew Musselman, who is studying at the
Manhattan School of Music.
When is he not studying, Daniel Hickstein enjoys hiking and
rock-climbing. He is a co-president of the Claremont
Colleges Rock Climbing Club and looks forward to trying
England’s famed rock climbs. He has been climbing for eight
years and completed many long, technical climbs in the U.S.,
Canada, Mexico and New Zealand. In May 2005, he made a solo
ascent of the 1800-foot vertical granite face of El Capitan
in Yosemite.
Pomona College, one of the nation’s premier liberal arts
institutions, offers a comprehensive program in the arts,
humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. Its
hallmarks include small classes, close relationships with
faculty and a range of opportunities for student research.
Visit Pomona College on the Web at www.pomona.edu.
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