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Their first names are Sun and Ossyris. It\u2019s hard to imagine two more perfectly fitting recipients of the prestigious Goldwater Scholarship, which honors select students nationwide pursuing careers in STEM fields. However, Sun Latt and Ossyris Bury didn\u2019t win the award because of their names but rather their character traits: Curiosity, humility and drive. Latt is determined to use science to help people heal more completely from bone injuries while Bury wants to take her inquisitiveness to Mars.<\/p>\n

With all of the above, you might be tempted to believe their achievements were laid out for them from birth. Latt corrects any such assumption.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnyone can earn a Goldwater Scholarship,\u201d he says, seeming to ignore the fact that for 2025 only 441 sophomores and juniors from a pool of 5,000 applicants earned the scholarship, worth $7,500 for each remaining undergraduate year and, more importantly, validation of their work. Latt clarifies. \u201cI say \u2018anyone\u2019 can do it because if you knew my background, you would not expect to be interviewing me today.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sun Latt<\/h2>\n

Major: <\/strong>Biomedical sciences<\/a>
\nMentors: <\/strong>Mehdi Razavi, Sanjeev Gurshaney \u201923<\/strong>, Pedram Sotoudehbagha, Robert Borgon and Natalia Leal Toro \u201917EdD
\n<\/strong>Ultimate Goal: <\/strong>Complete medical school and earn a doctoral degree in tissue engineering en route to creating new therapeutic devices while also mentoring students.<\/p>\n

The guy sitting in the coffee shop with his laptop and a pile of notes makes multitasking look effortless. He cannot possibly be studying for the MCAT while also<\/em> finishing a presentation on an engineering solution to help bones heal better \u2014 can he? This is Sun Latt and that\u2019s exactly what he\u2019s doing. The research<\/a> project involves a novel nanoparticle incorporated into magnesium orthopedic implants. His goal is to find a sweet spot where the bone heals faster and the implant dissolves without leaching toxins.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt might sound super advanced,\u201d says Latt, a Burnett Honors Scholar<\/a>. \u201cIf I were talking like this to my freshman self, I wouldn\u2019t believe it\u2019s me. I didn\u2019t even know the meaning of research until I met mentors at UCF.\u201d<\/p>\n

During Latt\u2019s freshman year, Associate Professor of Medicine Mehdi Razavi asked Latt to help his team research a nanoparticle he was studying. Latt\u2019s first discovery was seeing what interdisciplinary research looks like. Razavi\u2019s projects included 13 undergraduates, graduates and postdoctoral scholars, specializing in engineering, biology, chemistry and materials science.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had no expectations about the impact I could make, but quickly I fell in love with research,\u201d Latt says. \u201cThat\u2019s how science came into my life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Latt is the son of parents who moved to U.S. to escape conflict in Myanmar where family farming skills were passed down for generations. Despite limited formal education, Latt\u2019s father found a path into medical school so he could help sick people in his hometown.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen, when he moved to Lakeland, Florida, he wanted to serve people with the same approach \u2014 by listening and treating them like the families in his home village,\u201d Latt says.<\/p>\n

When Latt was 10 years old, he traveled to Myanmar with his father and watched him provide life-changing medical care for patients.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy dad instilled a desire to create a positive impact through medicine,\u201d he says. \u201cMy exposure to science at UCF instilled an additional desire: to use science as a tool to drive innovation in medicine.\u201d<\/p>\n

Three years ago, when Latt still wrestled with some self-doubt, he read a UCF Today story about a Goldwater Scholarship recipient, Angela Shar \u201922<\/strong>. Latt knew Shar from the research lab but didn\u2019t know until reading the story that Shar\u2019s parents also immigrated from Myanmar and that she\u2019d also overcome self-doubt.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought, \u2018Hey, if I share a background and a lab with someone as successful as her, then maybe I can be a Goldwater recipient someday, too,\u2019 \u201d he says.<\/p>\n

In that same story, Latt read about another Goldwater scholar, Sanjeev Gurshaney<\/strong> \u201923<\/strong>, who happened to live in the same housing complex. Gurshaney became another mentor, encouraging Latt to aim for a Goldwater Scholarship.<\/p>\n

\u201cAngela and Sanjeev said to use my time at UCF to focus on what I really want to do,\u201d Latt says.<\/p>\n

That means helping to develop therapeutics that solve unsolved problems and cure diseases that don\u2019t have cures yet. But there\u2019s something more important to Latt.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing a mentor to others,\u201d he says. \u201cWho knows? Maybe someone will read my story and think about possibilities they never knew existed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ossyris Bury<\/h2>\n

Major: <\/strong>Aerospace engineering<\/a>
\nMentors: <\/strong>Jeffrey Kauffman, Maxwell Booth \u201921 \u201924MS<\/strong>, Jacqueline Sullivan, Germayne Graham
\nUltimate Goal: <\/strong>Earn a doctoral degree, research new spacecraft for missions to the moon and Mars and be among the first researchers to live on the red planet.<\/p>\n

When she was growing up in Broward County, Ossyris Bury\u2019s favorite spots were wherever she could read a book in peace. Her parents signed her up for softball, dance and cheerleading to learn social skills. But the morning of Sept. 8, 2016, is when Bury says she truly came alive.<\/p>\n

NASA launched a spacecraft as part of an asteroid mission called OSIRIS. During news reports, Bury heard the name pronounced Oh-Sie<\/em>-Ris, the same as hers.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh my gosh, it was like I could see my future self written in the stars,\u201d says Bury, a Burnett Honors Scholar<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Space exploration wasn\u2019t necessarily on the mind of Bury\u2019s father when he named his daughter. He and Bury\u2019s mother, both Panamanian, wanted to raise their children in the U.S., where they would be free to creatively reach as high as they wanted. To feed the imagination of young Ossyris, dad would bring home empty boxes from his work as an air conditioning specialist and watch her turn them into intricate little houses. That imagination piqued when Bury heard her name associated with deep space.<\/p>\n

\u201cI researched the mission, NASA and everything about spacecrafts,\u201d she says, \u201cAnd I knew that I wanted to send something into space someday \u2014 or maybe send myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bury could have gone to any college in Florida to pursue her goals, but she chose UCF for a very down-to-earth reason.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I visited, I noticed how students treated each other. They were collaborative instead of competitive,\u201d she says. \u201cThey were happy. I can proudly say I\u2019ve become one of those happy UCF students.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bury\u2019s interest in research accelerated when a graduate assistant, Maxwell Booth \u201921 \u201924MS<\/strong>, invited her to help investigate adaptive structures. The work led to the first of two publications she\u2019s co-authored.<\/p>\n

\u201cI realized that I enjoy research enough to do it for a long time,\u201d Bury says.<\/p>\n

For her Honors Undergraduate Thesis<\/a>, Bury launched her own project on the dynamics of hovering flight \u2014 think of hummingbirds and dragonflies \u2014 which could perhaps be applied to spacecraft design. Then, in May, she was chosen from more than 400 applicants to begin a deep-space research project on Earth-bound asteroids, funded by U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Defense.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Goldwater Scholarship helped me stand out,\u201d Bury says. \u201cThe benefits of the Goldwater are unquantifiable. I came into research in an unorthodox way, so I could have told myself that everything was just luck. But the Goldwater [Scholarship is] an \u2018I made it\u2019 moment. As much as I appreciate friends and mentors saying, \u2018Nice job,\u2019 this comes from people I\u2019ve never met acknowledging that I belong in this field.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bury plans to pursue a doctoral degree and continue mentoring others, just as she\u2019s done as a teaching assistant with 500 first-year engineering students.<\/p>\n

\u201cMentorship is why, ideally, I\u2019d like to be a NASA astronaut,\u201d she says. \u201cI want to do TED Talks and share my experiences with kids. Hopefully, one of those experiences will be from living in a small habitat on Mars for a year. I can\u2019t think of a better way to go out and then give back.\u201d<\/p>\n

Students interested in applying for the Goldwater Scholarship or other major national awards should contact the Office of Prestigious Awards at\u00a0<\/em>opa@ucf.edu<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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