Altenburger has thus far earned a perfect 4.0 GPA.

Kristen Altenburger received a 2010 Goldwater Scholarship, an award established by the U.S. Congress to provide significant resources to highly qualified students in mathematics, the natural sciences, and engineering. Students are nominated by the faculties of colleges and universities throughout the United States on the basis of academic merit. Altenburger, a junior mathematics major and two-sport athlete at Ohio University, has thus far earned a perfect 4.0 GPA. Nationwide, 278 Goldwater Scholars were selected from a field of 1,111 mathematics, science, and engineering students.