bachelor\u2019s degree in molecular biology<\/a> and microbiology.<\/p>\nAlso as part of the scholarship presentation will be former astronaut Robert Cabana, who is the director of Kennedy Space Center. Cabana has flown four space shuttle missions, including as commander of the Endeavour on the first space station assembly mission in 1998. Before coming to KSC, he was director of NASA\u2019s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi.<\/p>\n
Both Murdock and Cabana will be watching the game from the president\u2019s box at Bright House Networks Stadium.<\/p>\n
The Astronaut Scholarship Foundation has awarded about $3.8 million to deserving students around the nation\u00a0since 1984.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the second consecutive year, UCF student Richard Murdock was chosen as a recipient of a $10,000 scholarship from the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation. Murdock, a senior mechanical engineering major and student in The Burnett Honors College, will be presented a check during Saturday\u2019s home football game between UCF and Tulane. The foundation provides the scholarships with the goal of helping…","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":62162,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-twocol.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[5,24],"tags":[650,11041,4013,4163],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-62161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colleges","category-science-technology","tag-burnett-honors-college","tag-richard-murdock","tag-robert-cabana","tag-scholarships"],"yoast_head":"\n
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