Garwin Family Foundation
  • HOME
  • ABOUT
    • Vision, Mission & Values
    • Leadership
    • Program History
  • SPONSORSHIP INFORMATION
    • Scholarship Program Description
    • Sponsorship Information
    • Approved Programs
    • Student Sponsorship Application Form — Part 2
    • Sponsored Student Reports: 2025
      • Student Reports — Past Years
    • FAQs
  • NEWS
  • VIDEO & PHOTO GALLERY
    • Video Testimonials
    • Photo Gallery
  • WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
    • Video Gallery: Meet the GFF Alumni
    • Where Are They Now? — 2025
    • Where Are They Now — Past Years
  • DONATE
    • Our Sponsors
    • Donate
  • CONTACT
Select Page
GFF Alumnus Elaina Xiao attends University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

GFF Alumnus Elaina Xiao attends University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Oct 30, 2023 | Where Are They Now? — 2023

We have heard from GFF Alumnus Elaina Xiao who is currently attending her first semester at UIUC.

Yoonseo Jung named 2024 Coca Cola Scholars Semi-Finalist!

Yoonseo Jung named 2024 Coca Cola Scholars Semi-Finalist!

Oct 16, 2023 | Where Are They Now? — 2023

We are proud to report that GFF Alumnus Yoonseo Jung has been selected as a 2024 Coca Cola Scholars Semi-finalist!

GFF Alumnus Michelle Wang begins her first semester at MIT.

GFF Alumnus Michelle Wang begins her first semester at MIT.

Oct 6, 2023 | Where Are They Now? — 2023

We have heard from GFF Alumnus Michelle Wang who is attending her first semester at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

GFF Alumnus Lauren Fakhoury begins her first semester at NYU.

GFF Alumnus Lauren Fakhoury begins her first semester at NYU.

Oct 1, 2023 | Where Are They Now? — 2023

We have received news from GFF Alumnus Lauren Fakhoury, who has returned to New York City where she is currently attending NYU.

Safwan Morshed studies Physics of Stars at the University of Chicago.

Safwan Morshed studies Physics of Stars at the University of Chicago.

Jul 31, 2023 | News

Safwan spent the first week exploring the campus, getting to know his instructors, and connecting with students from around the world.

« Older Entries
Next Entries »

Garwin Family Foundation

P.O. Box 322
Carbondale, Illinois 62903

Recent Articles

  • Claire Lu studies “Surface Chemistry” at the Michigan Math and Science Scholars Program.
  • Katya Chyzhyk studies “Genetic Detectives: Stray Cats Paternity and Predator Trails” at the Vanderbilt University Summer Institute.
  • David Johnson studies Environmental Science at the Washington University Pre-College Program.
  • Takamichi Miyoshi studies Graph Theory at the Michigan Math and Science Scholars Program.
  • Mollie Mandell attends Southern Illinois University as a summer Research Intern in the Mass Spectometry Laboratory.
  • Isabella Dai studies Neuroimaging: Seeing the Brain in Action at the Michigan Math and Science Scholars Program.
  • Anne Popit studies Neuroscience at the University of Notre Dame Summer Scholars Program.

Archived Articles

Quick Links

  • Contact
  • Donate
  • Video Gallery
  • Photo Gallery
  • Where Are They Now?

YouTube

  • Follow GFF on YouTube!

Words of Wisdom

“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”

— W. Clement Stone

“Learning never exhausts the mind.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.”

— Albert Camus

“The wisest mind has something yet to learn.”

— George Santayana

“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.”

— Aristotle

“I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“To know a man’s library is, in some measure, to know a man’s mind.”

— Geraldine Brooks, March

“To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.”

— Khalil Gibran

“You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”

— Winston Churchill

“Nothing is at last sacred but the quality of your own mind.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”

— Plutarch

“It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.”

— Rene Descartes

“Stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it.”

— Frank McCourt

“The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”

— Malcolm Forbes

“You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”

— Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

— Aristotle

“The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind is curiosity.”

— Edmund Burke

“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their
opinions, they cease to be mind.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“All the resources we need are in the mind.”

— Theodore Roosevelt, October 1915
  • Facebook
  • X
  • Instagram
© Copyright 2017 to present — Garwin Family Foundation. All rights reserved.