Welcome to the Office of National Scholarships & Fellowships‘ 2023 Celebration of Excellence.  This is our annual end-of-year event during which we celebrate the fantastic students who represented UConn in national scholarship and fellowship competitions, along with the faculty, staff, administrators, and friends who supported them.  Browse the content below to learn more about the office and the students whose accomplishments and effort we’re here to celebrate.

Today’s event is casual by design.  Please enjoy the food, and don’t be afraid to introduce yourself to the other attendees.

There will be brief remarks at 3:15PM.

 

 

Marshall Scholarship

Churchill Scholarship

Elizabeth Carrizzo (ENG ’23) – 2023 Nominee

Defne Alpdogan (CLAS ’24) – 2023 Nominee
Thomas Bonitz (CLAS ’24) – 2023 Nominee
Liam Enea (CAHNR ’24) – 2023 Nominee
Samantha Gove (CLAS ’24) – 2023 Nominee
Irene Soteriou (CLAS ’23) – 2022 Scholar

Goldwater Scholarship

Lisa Liang (CLAS ’25) – 2023 Nominee
Neo Lin (CLAS ’25) – 2023 Nominee
Romir Raj (ENG ’24) — 2023 Scholar
Lyla White (PHARM ’24) – 2023 Nominee

Katie Hooker (CLAS ’23) – 2022 Scholar
Abigail Moran (CLAS ’23) – 2022 Nominee
Antonina Wenc (CLAS ’23) – 2022 Nominee
Joshua Yu (CLAS ’23) – 2022 Nominee

Beinecke Scholarship

Katherine Jimenez (CLAS ’24) — 2023 Scholar
Elisa Shaholli (CLAS ’23) – 2022 Scholar

Newman Civic Fellowship

Yana Tartakovskiy (BUS ’25)— 2023 Fellow
Samantha Gove (CLAS ’24) – 2022 Fellow

Samantha Gove (CLAS ’24) – 2022 Scholar
Claire Lee (CLAS ’24) – 2023 Nominee
Chase Mack (CLAS ’23) – 2022 Honorable Mention

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Fulbright U.S. Student Program Applicants

2022-23

Madeline Baird (Graduate Student, Anthropology)

Recipient – Research Award (Mexico)

Laura Bedoya (Graduate Student, Public Administration)

Semifinalist – Research Award (Colombia)

Danicia Brown (CLAS ’23, English)

Recipient – ETA (Germany)

Erik Choi (CLAS ’23, Physiology & Neurobiology)

Alternate – ETA (Thailand)

Sulema Depeyster (CLAS ’23, History)

Semifinalist – Research Award (New Zealand)

Rebecca Ercolani (BUS ’16, Healthcare Management & Insurance Studies)

Recipient – ETA (Bulgaria)

Keely Greiner (CLAS ’22, Individualized (Health Systems and Disparities); MPH ’23)

Recipient – Study Award (Netherlands)

Neal Krishna (CLAS ’23, Physiology & Neurobiology and English

Alternate – ETA (Taiwan)

Daniel Leaf (CLAS ’23, Political Science and German)

Recipient – ETA (Germany)

Chase Mack (CLAS ’23, Environmental Science and Political Science, dual degree)

Semifinalist – Study Award (United Kingdom)

Jennifer Magnoli (BUS ’22, Management)

Semifinalist – ETA (Spain)

Tracey Miller (Graduate Student, Plant Science)

Semifinalist – Study Award (United Kingdom)

Harrison Raskin (CLAS ’23, Urban & Community Studies and Spanish)

Semifinalist – ETA (Spain)

Lucas Ruiz (CLAS ’23, History)

Semifinalist – ETA (South Korea)

Christine Savino (BUS ’18, Management)

Recipient – ETA (Taiwan)

Stephanie Schofield (CLAS, Molecular & Cell Biology)

Recipient – Research Award (Germany)

Elisa Shaholli (CLAS, English and Economics)

Recipient – ETA (Turkey)

Joan Tremblay (CLAS ’22, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and English dual degree)

Recipient – Study Award (United Kingdom)

Elyssa Wrubel (Graduate Student, English)

Semifinalist – ETA (Morocco)

2021-22 (Recipients Only)

 

Bryan Greene (Graduate Student, Sociology)

Recipient – Research Award (Poland)

 

Josiah Grzywacz (Graduate Student, Oceanography)

Recipient – Research Award (Poland)

Akriti Mishra (CLAS ’20, Molecular & Cell Biology)

Recipient – ETA (Spain)

Drew Tienken (CLAS ’22, Environmental Science and Political Science dual degree)

Recipient – ETA (Taiwan)

Robert Minh Lu Williams (ENG ’22, Materials Science & Engineering)

Recipient – ETA (Vietnam)

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NSF Graduate Research Fellowships Recipients

2022-23

Brandon Chan – Graduate Student, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Nick Gonzalez, Graduate Student, Anthropology
Analisa Milkey, Graduate Student, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Maggie Ward, Graduate Student, Chemistry

2021-22

Tony Edgington – Graduate Student, Geosciences
Raul Flamenco – Graduate Student, Natural Resources & the Environment
Urvi Kaul – Graduate Student, Anthropology
Elyse Schriber – Graduate Student, Materials Science & Engineering
Swapna Subramanian – – Graduate Student, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

 

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ONSF wishes to congratulate Nidhi Nair (CLAS ’23) on her selection as UConn’s first Schwarzman Scholar.

Read more about Nidhi and all our students’ successes at https://today.uconn.edu/category/national-scholarships-and-fellowships/.

 

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Special thanks to the dozens of faculty, staff, administrators, and friends of the office who participated as nominating committee members, mock/practice interview participants, and recommenders during the past year.  It takes a village to raise a national scholarship applicant, and we couldn’t do this work without you.

 

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Finally, we hope you’ll join us in thanking LuAnn Saunders-Kanabay, Assistant Director of ONSF and Fulbright Program Adviser, and Rowena Grainger, ONSF’s STEM Fellowships Advisor.

Prior to accepting a position at Jackson Laboratories in January, Rowena worked tirelessly to promote Goldwater, NSF-GRFP, NIH-NRSA, Churchill, Hollings, and other scholarship opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students here at UConn.  This year’s applicants and nominees worked with Rowena before her departure.  As the new Program Administrator for Student and Postdoctoral Affairs at The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine in Farmington, we know the graduate students and postdocs at Jackson Labs are in good hands!

LuAnn is retiring from both of her roles, and we wish her the best in her new adventures.  She has been not only a valued colleague, but a source of inspiration and guidance to a generation of UConn students through her work with ONSF, the Presidential Scholars Program, and the Stamps Scholars Program.  She leaves behind some enormous shoes to fill.  The photo below from our last in-person Celebration of Excellence pretty much sums up her relationship with her students.  Thanks, LuAnn.  We will miss you!

 

 

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See you next year!

 

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The Office of National Scholarships & Fellowships (ONSF) is a resource for students interested in learning more about prestigious scholarships and fellowships that support study in all fields. ONSF is part of Enrichment Programs and is open to all graduate and undergraduate students at the University, including students at the regional campuses. For more information about the office and the opportunities we support, visit ONSF on the web at www.onsf.uconn.edu.