Grinnell Student Noah Most ’13 Wins Prestigious Watson Fellowship

$25,000 Award Will Fund Year of Study and Travel

Grinnell College student Noah Most, a senior from Stillwater, Minn., has been awarded a prestigious Watson Fellowship for one year of independent study and travel abroad.
A double major in economics and general science-biology, Most held three research internships studying genetics, and also was a co-leader of the Social Entrepreneurs of Grinnell, a student-led microfinance organization.
Most plans to use his Watson Fellowship to study the do-it-yourself biology movement, which, he says, "seeks to democratize synthetic biology so that anyone can explore an entrepreneurial idea in her basement."
Most will travel to community bio-garages in the United Kingdom, Canada, India and Singapore to work with synthetic biology entrepreneurs who "share resources, proliferate scientific knowledge, and seek to build a low-cost infrastructure so that even non-scientists can learn, tinker and innovate."
"The Watson affords gives me a chance to investigate the perfect fusion of my interests—equity, biology, economics, institutions, entrepreneurship, innovation—by exploring the extraordinary potential of synthetic biology to shape the world," Most said. "Through fusing these interests on their common thread, I want to learn from innovative change-makers to eventually become one myself."
Most is the son of Robert and Claire Most of Stillwater, Minn.

$25,000 Award Will Fund Year of Study and Travel
Thursday, March 14, 2013 - 19:00
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Grinnell Student Noah Most ’13 Wins Prestigious Watson Fellowship