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Science Scholarship Created In Honor Of Late PhD Student From VA Beach Science Scholarship Created In Honor Of Late PhD Student From VA Beach
Science Scholarship Created In Honor Of Late PhD Student From VA Beach Corey Sargent was set to become the first Old Dominion University student to receive a PhD in astrophysics. On June 11, the 25-year-old's life was cut short in Newport News, when a reckless driver killed him in a rear end collision, according to a GoFundMe page started in his honor. The Virginia Beach native had already received bachelor's and master's degrees in physics from ODU, but was still not satisfied.  "Everything was a competition: baseball, kayaking, hiking, even school where he won nearly every award possible from the ODU Physics Department." A friend of Sargent's family recal…

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