<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/five-undergrad-stem-researchers-nominated-for-goldwater-scholar-competition.php" dsn="blogs"><pubDate>02/04/2026</pubDate><title>Five undergrad STEM researchers nominated for Goldwater Scholar Competition</title><main-featured>true</main-featured><category-featured>true</category-featured><summary>Five Louisiana Tech students have been nominated to the Goldwater Scholar Competition, a highly selective, national scholarship awarded by the federal government to the top undergraduate researchers in various STEM fields.</summary><image><img src="/news/_images/goldwater-nominee-students-2026.jpg" alt="Headshots of four women and one man."/></image><tags><tag>Students</tag></tags></item>