Award Winners and Scholarship Info
$500 scholarships are given to the top 3 students in each SPICES category.
| Name | Poster Title and Link | Category |
| Ithzel Dominguez | Texas Mission of Mercy | Service - 1st Place |
| Isabel Vera (Lopez) | Fundraising For the Youth | Service - 2nd Place |
| Francisco Herrera | Building A complete Water System in Guatelmala | Service - 3rd Place |
| Emily Schelstrate | Food Insecurity and Roadrunner Pantry | Service - 4th Place |
| Eddie Garcia | Single Marine Representative | Service - 5th Place |
| Laura Hostetler | Mobile Hilfe Madagaskara | Professional Development - 1st Place |
| Deniff Lara | Office of The Mayor | Professional Development - 2nd Place |
| Oseloke Innocent-Utulu | Machine Learning and Covid-19 | Professional Development - 3rd Place |
| Esosa Izevbigie | Medical Assisting with Advantage of Pain Managment | Professional Development - 4th Place |
| Maison Kennedy | Registered Dental Assistant | Professional Development - 5th Place |
| Laura Hostetler | A Pratical Approach to Addressing Malnurition in Madagascar | Intellectual Achievement & Research - 1st Place |
| Marissa Coppin | The Role of HDAC1 in Neuronal Differentiation | Intellectual Achievement & Research - 2nd Place |
| Joseph Nieto | Novel Synthesis and Development for Taccalonolide Analogs | Intellectual Achievement & Research - 3rd Place |
| Joshua Lazaro | Differential Disease Trajectories in Low and Middle Income Countries | Intellectual Achievement & Research - 4th Place |
| Neha Prasla | Officially Stukent Certified | Intellectual Achievement & Research - 5th Place |
| Vivienne Martinez | Ciao Italy! My Summer in Italy | Cultural Exploration - 1st Place |
| Rawan Bader | Exploring my Ethnic Roots | Cultural Exploration - 2nd Place |
| Jack Leslie | My Journey Through Weight Loss | Engaged Living - 1st Place |
| Juliana Woodlee | Climbing For the Sky | Engaged Living - 2nd Place |
| Josh Klopfenstein | Running a Marathon | Engaged Living - 3rd Place |
| Ashley Niemeyer | Training and Running a Marathon | Engaged Living - 4th Place |
| Alexander Hoxie | On the Road to a Black Belt | Engaged Living - 5th Place |
| Joseph Nieto | Undergraduate Research Assistant at Fratz Labs | Skill Development - 1st Place |
| Perla Ramirez | EMT-B Certification | Skill Development - 2nd Place |
| Neha Prasla | Thread Marketing | Skill Development - 3rd Place |
| Stephanie Garrett | Ballet Trainee | Skill Development - 4th Place |
| Caroline Muniz | My Passion Emergency Medicine | Skill Development - 5th Place |
| Mariah Antopia | Research Awarness for Young Scholars | Leadership - 1st Place |
| Joseph Nieto | Journal Article and Book Club Coordinator for the Pre-Medical Society | Leadership - 2nd Place |
| Clarisse Truong | Leadership as a Terry Scholar | Leadership - 3rd Place |
| Alexandra Sanabria | Ascending in UTSA ASCE: My Vice-Presidential Leadership | Leadership - 4th Place |
| Hans Robinson Loja | Wasn't it Meant-or to be? | Leadership - 5th Place |
| Name | Poster Title and Link | Category |
| Emilio Martinez III | Restore Education | Service- 1st Place |
| Ellen Cook | Inquiry-Based Service-Learning Project | Service- 2nd Place |
| Srilalitha Lanka | Dance for a Cause | Service- 3rd Place |
| Aisha Bah | Cultural Humility Through Service | Service- 4th Place |
| Jania Matthews | The Roadrunner Pantry | Service- 5th Place |
| Sofia Cavenaile | Internship with Senator Jose Menendez | Professional Development - 1st Place |
| Ellen Cook | Summer Microbiology Internship | Professional Development - 2nd Place |
| Karl Haas | Project Engineer | Professional Development - 3rd Place |
| Ethan Woods | Interning at Victory Capital | Professional Development - 4th Place |
| Camila Perez | Becoming an EMT at 18 | Professional Development - 5th Place |
| Suyapa Munoz | Global Health Research in Family Planning | Intellectual Achievement and Researc- 1st Place |
| Rachel Okereke | How Does the Environment Affect How I Feel? | Intellectual Achievement and Researc- 2nd Place |
| R.J. Alva | Optimal Charging for Electric Vehicles | Intellectual Achievement and Researc- 3rd Place |
| Zina Helal | Mechanobiology Research at The University of Pennsylvania | Intellectual Achievement and Researc- 4th Place |
| Madeline Morales | Because It's Our Environment, Too | Intellectual Achievement and Researc- 5th Place |
| Layan Ali-Hasan | Fertility Clinic Shadowing Overseas | Cultural Exploration- 1st Place |
| William Hughes | A Virtual Summer in Japan | Cultural Exploration- 2nd Place |
| Collin Matthies | 50k Ultra Marathon | Engaged Living- 1st Place |
| Christina Zhang | Millennium Fellowship Project: Student Art Society | Engaged Living- 2nd Place |
| Ellen Cook | 10 Weeks Art Challenge | Engaged Living- 3rd Place |
| Andrea Bennett | My Clarinet | Engaged Living- 4th Place |
| Jesse Reynolds | Performing in the UTSA Jazz Ensemble & Combo | Engaged Living- 5th Place |
| Srilalitha Lanka | Guinness World Records Dance Challenge | Skill Development- 1st Place |
| Margaret Okeowo | Certified Medical Assisting | Skill Development- 2nd Place |
| Jesse Reynolds | Jazz Composition for UTSA Jazz Combo | Skill Development- 3rd Place |
| Elizabeth De Leon | Constructing an AISC Student Steel Bridge | Skill Development- 4th Place |
| Joshua Gutierrez | Learning and Working- Valero Internship | Skill Development- 5th Place |
| Peyton Guenter | Being a Residential Advisor Through the Pandemic | Leadership- 1st Place |
| Jenelle Millison | Leadership: From RA to ACM Officer and Everything in Between | Leadership- 2nd Place |
| Eliesha Perez | Leading Letters of Adventure | Leadership- 3rd Place |
| Neha Mithani | Peer Mentorship | Leadership- 4th Place |
| Adeel Ahmed | Doctors Without Borders | Leadership- 5th Place |
Important exceptions for scholarship awards:
Students are ineligible to receive this award if they meet any of the following criteria:
- If a student has met the cost of attendance in the semester that they received the award.
- If a student is a McKinney, Distinguished Presidential Scholar, Terry Scholars or Top Scholar Recipient
- Any student that is scheduled to graduate in the semester that they receive this award.
For example, if you are a student that is graduating in the Fall and you are awarded a monetary award from the Fall ELF: you are ineligible to receive this award. However, if you are a student that is scheduled to graduate in the Spring and you are awarded a monetary award from the Fall ELF, you are eligible to receive this award.
The final scholarship recipient list will be submitted to our Department Fiscal Specialist. The Department Fiscal Specialist will work with the Scholarship Office to process the scholarship awards. The scholarships will be posted to the student's ASAP account within two weeks after this award notification email. If you have any questions, please contact Stacie Garza at ext. 4106 or honors@utsa.edu.
