National Scholars

Fellowship Year 2025-2026

Astronaut Scholars

Beinecke Scholar

Boren Scholars

Carnegie Endowment James C. Gaither Junior Fellow

  • Cara Wilson (Public Policy; Middle Eastern Studies, 2025), Nuclear Policy Program

Critical Language Scholars

  • Sadie Darbro (Global Studies, 2026)
  • Andrew Joel (Political Science; Law Letters & Society, 2027)
  • Juan Leal Mendoza (Political Science; Human Rights and Astronomy minors, 2025)
  • Francesco Rahe (Fundamentals: Issues & Texts; Religious Studies, 2025)
  • Zakaria Sadak (East Asian Languages and Civilizations; Art History, 2025)
  • Sydney Wall (Common Year, 2027)

Alternates

  • Noel Cormack (Common Year, 2027)
  • Julisa Garcia (Common Year, 2027)
  • Charles Hendon (Romances Languages & Literatures; Education & Society Minor, 2025)
  • Elijah Jenkins (Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity; Law Letters & Society, 2026)
  • Joyce Li (Common Year, 2028)
  • Casey Mathur (History; Law Letters & Society; MA, History, 2025)
  • Brennan Park (Common Year, 2028)
  • Abigail Poag (Russian and East European Studies; Comparative Literature; Human Rights minor, 2025)
  • Elena Tiedens (History, 2025)

DAAD RISE Scholars

  • Anoushka Ghosh (Chemistry, 2026)
  • Victoria McDermott (Mathematics; Physics, 2027)
  • Jacob Rothman (Molecular Engineering, 2027)
  • Victoria Soto (Common Year, 2027)

Fulbright Finalists (Awardees)

Gates Gambridge Scholars

  • Elena Tiedens (History, 2025)
  • Erica Hogan (AB’23, Economics; Fundamentals: Issues & Texts)

Gilman Scholars

  • Adama Bundu (Global Studies, 2026)
  • Olger Carcache (Romances Languages & Literatures; Middle Eastern Studies minor, 2025)
  • Sacha de Poyen-Brown (Mathematics, 2026)
  • Harlie Grenead (Media Arts and Design; East Asian Languages and Civilizations, 2027)
  • Elijah Jenkins (Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity; Law Letters & Society, 2026)
  • Alisyn Parfait (Global Studies; Anthropology 2027)
  • Kennedy Smith (East Asian Languages and Civilizations, 2026)
  • Vickie Song (Economics, 2027)
  • Syed Wahid (Psychology, 2025)

Goldwater Scholars

  • Connor Blake (Molecular Engineering, 2026)
  • Prithi Srinivasan (Biological Sciences; Chemistry, 2026)
  • Melody Tang (Chemistry; Biological Chemistry, 2026)
  • Leon Lee Zhou (Biological Sciences; Data Science, 2026)

Knight-Hennessy Scholars

Lincoln Academy Student Laureate

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellows

  • Isabella Cisneros (BS Biological Sciences, 2023)
  • Sarah Kress (BS Chemistry, 2025)
  • Mary Christina Papadopoulos (BS Chemistry, 2025)
  • Joshua Pixley (BS Molecular Engineering, Biological Chemistry; BA Chemistry, 2025)
  • Gabrielle Rose Solymosy (BS Molecular Engineering, 2025)

An additional five College/UChicago alums were awarded the NSF GRFP as graduate students at other institutions

Honorable Mentions

  • Genevieve Ansay (BS Molecular Engineering, 2025) 
  • Emory Apodaca (BS Molecular Engineering, 2024) 
  • Emma Edwards (BS Chemistry, Environmental Science, 2025)
  • Taylor Elliott (BS Molecular Engineering, 2025)
  • Aurora Ferrell (BS Neuroscience, 2025) 
  • Tate Flicker (BS Physics, 2025)
  • Daniel Fu (BS Physics, Computer Science, Mathematics, 2025)
  • Phoebe Hall (BS Biological Sciences, 2022)
  • Maya Shah McDaniel (BS Molecular Engineering, 2025) 
  • Cristian Molina (BS Biological Sciences; BA Gender and Sexuality Studies, 2023)
  • Kyla Elizabeth Fields Mullaney (BA Astrophysics, 2024)
  • Amelia Orwant (BS Neuroscience, Computational and Applied Mathematics, 2025)
  • Chris Pezanosky (BS Physics; BA RLL - French, 2025)
  • Miguel Saucedo (BS Biological Sciences, 2025)
  • Amelia Seropian (BA Chemistry, Visual Arts, 2025)
  • Yujing Tang (BA Mathematics, 2025)
  • Lucy Elizabeth Tindel (BA Psychology, 2023)
  • Chloe Isabella Tsang (BS Molecular Engineering, 2025)
  • Anna Estelle Warsaw (BS Biological Sciences, Environmental Science, 2023)
  • Joseph Yeung (BS Astrophysics, Physics, 2025)

An additional 29 College/UChicago alums were named NSF GRFP Honorable Mentions as graduate students at other institutions

Marshall Scholar

  • Mónica Ruiz House (AB’ 24, Latin America and Caribbean Studies; Law, Letters and Society; Romance Languages and Literatures; Sociology)

Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow

Projects for Peace Grantee

  • Anthony Calixto (Public Policy, 2025 with minors in Quantitative Social Analysis & Religious Studies)

Rhodes Scholars

Schwarzman Scholars

  • Maxime Kpangbai (Economics, 2020)
  • Emily Shi (Public Policy; Biological Sciences, 2025)

Truman Scholar

  • Luke Magyar (Political Science; MA in International Relations, 2026)

Udall Scholar

US Teaching Assistantship (USTA) Program

Yenching Academy Scholars


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