Zach Hulcher, a native of Montgomery, Alabama, will graduate from MIT with majors in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, and Physics with a Mathematics minor. Zach played on the MIT football team and is the Eligibles Chair of MIT’s Tau Beta Pi. He conducted research with the CMS experiment at CERN and with MIT’s Center for Theoretical Physics on analysis and modeling of how CMS measurements can be used to probe Quark-Gluon Plasma, a state of matter connected to the Big Bang. As a Marshall Scholar, he plans to attend the University of Cambridge, researching high energy physics.