A Cocke County High Schoolgraduate is one of three Universityof Tennessee-Knoxvillestudents recently awarded the prestigious Goldwater Scholarship. WilliamBradley O'Dell, son of Joy Drew and Kathy O'Dell, Newport, along with Jamie Elise Troupe andCasey Jameson Williams, received the scholarship, which provides the costs oftuition, fees, books, and room and board. O'Dell's scholarship is for $7,500.

A fourth student, Elizabeth Anne Jacobs, received anhonorable mention in the scholarship competition.

O'Dell, who completed his elementary school studies at Bridgeport Elementary School, graduated as one ofthe valedictorians of his high school class. He is in the Chancellor's Honorsand College Scholars programs at UTK and is majoring in structural chemistry.

O'Dell's future goals include earning his master's degreeand doctorate in physical chemistry and then conducting research on molecularstructures and dynamics at either a scientific institute or international userfacility.

He is the grandson of Eulala O'Dell, Newport, the late Monroe O'Dell, and LawrenceStinnett, Cosby, and the late Glennie Stinnett.

With three recipients and one honorable mention, UTKmatches Harvard, MIT, Princeton, and Duke inthis year's Goldwater competition and furthers its national reputation forhigh-quality undergraduate education in mathematics, the natural sciences, andengineering.