On May 6, the Hertz Foundation announced this year's cohort of 19 Hertz Fellows. Among them are fourth-year undergraduate Sam Foxman and incoming graduate student Nikhil Seshadri. The Hertz Fellowship is one of the nation's most competitive and prestigious doctoral fellowships in applied science, engineering, and mathematics. Awarded through a rigorous selection process, the fellowship provides recipients with up to five years of funding and lifelong professional support to pursue innovative research with broad societal impact. "Being a Hertz Fellow means having an opportunity to explore diverse aspects of science with real-world impact that don't solely fall into the boundaries of one field," says Foxman, who studies computer science. Foxman is set to graduate from Caltech this spring. During his time at the Institute, he has contributed to four NASA missions, with projects spanning spacecraft communications, mission operations, fluid dynamics, and artificial intelligence.…