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Webster & Sara Schoene Richardson Memorial Scholarship


Both Web and Sara Richardson taught in the Virginia Tech Physics Department for several decades. In addition to their work with the introductory courses, where they were known for the exacting standards, Sara developed a course called "household physics," while Web developed an X-ray laboratory where he constructed extensive apparatus of which was justly proud and which was used by many of the first graduate students in physics at Virginia Tech. The scholarship was establised in 1998 by family members.


The Webster & Sara Schoene Richardson Memorial Scholarship was established in 1998.

Past recipients:
2008    Siddharth Venkat
2007    Jonathan Doughty, Daniel Hockensmith, Paul Trampert
2006    Elizabeth Bonnell, Laura Triplett
2005    Anna Belak, Adam Larsen
2004    Michael Robertson, Brett Spencer, Colin Beal
2003    Travis Merritt, Annalisa Pawlosky
2002    Andrew Fenley, Zachary Lewis, Edouard Bernard, Jeremy Saria, Jason Tabeling
2001    Christopher Graziul
2000    Beth Reid
1999    Kaori Kuroda

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