Recent Fellowship Winners and Recognitions

UNL is a top producer of student Fulbrights!

 

The Fulbright Program, the U.S. government’s flagship international educational exchange program, recently announced the complete list of colleges and universities that produced the most 2011-2012 U.S. Fulbright Students.  The success of the top-producing institutions is highlighted in the October 24 edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education.

 

 


DAAD

Garret Allen 2013, DAAD Study Scholarship
Tanner Sorensen 2013, DAAD Study Scholarship

Elizabeth Jaensch 2011, DAAD RISE

Quentin Dudley 2010, DAAD RISE
 

 

 

Fulbright Graduate Student Program Scholars

2013 Fulbright Scholars

Lindsey Graef - ETA Indonesia
Samantha Marcoux - ETA South Korea
Amy Millspaugh - ETA Germany
Daniel Nyikos - Hungary
Elena Shomos - Albania
Tim Wilkins - ETA Bulgaria

2012 Fulbright Scholars

Lindsey Andersen - Brazil
Kaylee Barber - ETA Germany
Stephanie Herzog - ETA Romania
Alanna Hoffman - ETA South Korea
Cara Morgenson - ETA Poland
Loni O'Grady - ETA Brazil
Brian Rentfro - ETA Germany
Nicole Searcey - Chile
Mallory Slama - ETA Czech Republic

2012 Fulbright Alternates

Rebecca Bonnett - ETA Spain
Suzanne Higgins - ETA Malaysia
 

2011 Fulbright Scholars- In the 2010-11 scholarship competition cycle, UNL submitted the highest number of Fulbright applications in the history of the University (34) with students receiving nine Fulbright scholarship awards - a record number for UNL!

Jennifer Birdsall - ETA Macedonia
Cori Curtis - ETA Turkey
Alyx Garner - ETA Germany
Jenna Gibson - ETA South Korea
Alexandria Knipe - Full Turkey
Sarah Lee - ETA South Korea
Anita Middleton - ETA Russia
Laura Roost - Full Rwanda
Carrie Walker - Full Jamaica

2011 Fulbright Alternates

Rachel Chin - ETA Georgia
Jacob Colling - Full Estonia
Trevor Nieveen - ETA Spain
Elena Shomos - Full Albania

 

2010 Fulbright Scholars

Karalynn Brown- ETA Slovak Republic
Kevin Healy- Full Latvia
Jill Savage- ETA South Korea
Jesse Starita- Full Brazil
Racheal Strong- Full China
Nick Ziegler - Full Germany

2010 Fulbright Alternate

Jeff Reznicek - Full Colombia

Gates Cambridge

This year, UNL also celebrates its first winner of the prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarship, which supports a graduating senior to attend Cambridge University in the fall of 2011.

Zach Norwood, 2011

Goldwater

In 2012, UNL celebrates all 4 Goldwater applicants winning the scholarship.

Rachel Coburn, 2012
Elizabeth Jaensch, 2012
Jared Ostdiek, 2012
Joseph Phillips, 2012

Jeff Lopez, 2011

Honorable Mentions:
Stephanie Berger 
Nathan Otten

Robert Jacobberger 2010

Honorable Mentions:
Laila Gharzai 
Stephanie Berger

Marshall

Zachary Smith, 2011

Aaron Eske, 2006

National Security Education Program (NSEP) Boren

Rebecca Gailey, 2012 Nathanial Hall, 2012 Katie Merckel, 2012

Elena Shomos, 2011

Zach Smith, 2010 Stephanie Booth, 2010

Alternate: Jessie Cleveland, 2010

Harry S. Truman Foundation

In the same year that UNL was named a Truman Honors Institution, a UNL student received a Truman scholarship. It is the first time UNL has had a Truman scholarship winner two years in a row.

Emily Schlichting, 2011

Matthew Boring, 2010

Contact for Fellowships

Dr. Laura Damuth
Director of Undergraduate Research and Fellowship Advisor
118 Neihardt (0659)
fellowships@unl.edu