Max Schulaker ’11 has been named a 2011-2012 Hertz Fellow, according to a press release from the Hertz Foundation.

The Hertz Foundation recognizes students in applied physical, biological and engineering sciences, and the fellowship provides $250,000 of support over five years. The goal of the fellowship is to make fellows “financially independent and free from traditional restrictions of their academic departments in order to promote innovation in collaboration with leading professors in the field.”

At Stanford, Schulaker studies electrical engineering and has explored alternatives to traditional silicon transistors, concentrating on carbon nanotube-based transistors and nano-electro-mechanical switches. He plans to continue pursuing these and other alternatives to current silicon transistors in his graduate studies at Stanford.

— Ivy Nguyen