Lisa Rollinson ’25, an entomology student in the Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, is one of two Texas A&M students to receive the Barry Goldwater Scholarship in 2024. She studies the black soldier fly, Hermetia illucens, which converts organic waste into high-quality insect protein and compost — designing an experiment measuring body structure size across population densities to explain why fertile egg production fluctuates. During a Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History internship she discovered a new species of bee fly, clarified the classification of two genera by examining more than 300 specimens, and redescribed seven bee fly species. Rollinson, who also won a Udall Undergraduate Scholarship, was not nominated for the Goldwater on her first try and encourages students to apply anyway.