On May 6, the Hertz Foundation announced its 2026 cohort of Hertz Fellows, which includes Sam Foxman, a fourth-year undergraduate at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and Nikhil Seshadri, an incoming graduate student. The Hertz Fellowship is one of the most prestigious doctoral fellowships in the United States, offering up to five years of funding and lifelong professional support for innovative research in applied science, engineering, and mathematics. Foxman, who will graduate from Caltech this spring, has worked on four NASA missions, contributing to projects in spacecraft communications and artificial intelligence. He plans to pursue graduate studies in aeronautics and astronautics at Stanford University, focusing on spacecraft communication and autonomous technologies. Seshadri, currently a post-bachelor's student at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), will begin his doctoral studies in chemistry at Caltech this fall. His research at LANL involves theoretical chemistry and aims to explore quantum interactions in materials. Both fellows join a distinguished group of over 1,300 Hertz Fellows, many of whom have advanced to leadership positions in academia and industry.