Staff Reports
Anna Kim, a student at Columbus North High School, has been named one of the first recipients of the Luddy Scholarship, the most prestigious scholarship awarded by the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University.
Luddy Scholars are afforded exclusive opportunities to interact with tech leaders, faculty, and alumni who will help students build their networks while enabling the next generation of STEM leaders create transformative solutions who will change the world. Luddy Scholars also enjoy programs featuring tech visionaries from strategic locations around the United States.
Kim was selected for the award based on his academic excellence and community service, as well as her passion for programming and the use of computing to solve societal issues. She plans to major in computer science at Luddy.
The program was established in 2019 as part of a gift from IU alumnus and founder and chairman of the board of ServiceNow Fred Luddy. Luddy’s $60 million gift—the second-largest private donation in the history of Indiana University—sought to invest in the people of the Luddy School and the students of the state of Indiana. The Luddy Scholars program supports high-achieving Hoosier students who earn a minimum GPA of 3.8 and a Scholastic Aptitude Test score of at least 1,410 or an ACT score of at least 32.
“We’re tremendously excited to welcome the first recipients of the Luddy Scholarship,” said Dennis Groth, interim dean of the Luddy School. “Our students will be the technology innovators of tomorrow, and the Luddy Scholars will take on a leadership role at our school as an example of what can be accomplished through determination and a willingness to discover new solutions to the problems that impact our daily lives. They will showcase the best that the Hoosier state has to offer in technology.”
Established in 2000, the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering is one of the broadest of its kind. Blending the fields of computer science, informatics, intelligent systems engineering, information and library science, and data science, the Luddy School is home to more than 3,000 students from the United States and around the world.
The school’s faculty are world-renowned experts in their respective fields and lead the way in critical areas such as artificial intelligence, bioinformatics, high performance computing, programming languages, security, healthcare, human-computer interaction, computer engineering, bioengineering, and AI-driven-engineering. Computer and information sciences research expenditures are ranked 12th in the country.
