Luther student awarded $10,000 scholarship

Luther College junior David Pfotenhauer of Madison, Wisconsin, has been awarded a Rossing Physics Scholarship for the 2014-15 academic year. The $10,000 scholarship is highly competitive and is awarded annually to five physics students of exceptional merit through the Thomas D. Rossing Fund for Physics Education.
           
Pfotenhauer, a physics and mathematics major at Luther, is the son of John and Nadine Pfotenhauer of Madison. He is a 2011 graduate of Madison West High School.  He was selected from a pool of exemplary physics student applicants from the 26 ELCA colleges across the country.
            
The awards are made possible through gifts from Rossing, who created the fund through the Foundation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America