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.

 

 

Critical Language Scholarships


Walter Bircher 2011

Michael Moses 2010
Jessie Cleveland 2010
Katie Sisneros 2010
Nicole Starkey 2010


DAAD RISE (Research Internships in Science and Engineering)


Elizabeth Jaensch 2011

Quentin Dudley 2010

Fulbright Graduate Student Program Scholars

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 2011
Cori Curtis - ETA Turkey 2011
Alyx Garner - ETA Germany 2011
Jenna Gibson - ETA South Korea 2011
Alexandria Knipe -  Turkey 2011
Sarah Lee - ETA South Korea 2011
Anita Middleton - ETA Russia 2011
Laura Roost -  Rwanda 2011
Carrie Walker - Jamaica 2011

2011 Fulbright Alternates

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

2010 Fulbright Scholars

 

Karalynn Brown- ETA Slovak Republic 2010
Kevin Healy- Latvia 2010
Jill Savage- ETA South Korea 2010
Jesse Starita-  Brazil 2010
Racheal Strong- China 2010
Nick Ziegler - Germany 2010

2010 Fulbright Alternate

Jeff Reznicek - 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

Jeff Lopez, 2011

Honorable Mentions: Stephanie Berger and Nathan Otten

Robert Jacobberger 2010

Honorable Mentions: Laila Gharzai and Stephanie Berger

Harry S. Truman Scholarship -

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

 

NSF Graduate Fellowship

Robert Woodward 2011

Aaron Fluitt 2010
Brady Garvin 2010
Katherine Heineman 2010
Katie Miller 2010
Kathryn Stolee 2010

Honorable Mentions:
Tyler Wortman 2010
Eric Wood 2010
Trisha Spanbauer 2010
TJ Bliss 2010

National Security Education Program (NSEP) Boren

Elena Shomos 2011

Zach Smith 2010
Stephanie Booth 2010

Alternate: Jessie Cleveland 2010

Contact for Fellowships

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