UTSA Award Recipients
| Name | Award | Location | Press |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seth Fremin | NSF Graduate Fellowship | UT San Antonio | UT San Antonio NSF Graduate Fellowship article |
| Joshua Lazaro | NSF Graduate Fellowship | Stanford | Stanford NSF Graduate Fellowship article |
| Angelica Ramos | NSF Graduate Fellowship | UT San Antonio | UT San Antonio NSF Graduate Fellowship article |
| Athena Santi | NSF Graduate Fellowship | UT San Antonio | UT San Antonio NSF Graduate Fellowship article |
| Alana Schwartz | Fulbright Student Program - ETA | Spain | |
| Brooke Ellerbe | Rotary Global Award | London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine | |
| Nasriya Witt | Rotary Global Award |
University of Zurich |
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| Jonah Espinoza | Sumners Scholarship | UT San Antonio | UT San Antonio Sumners Scholarship article |
| Jacob Arras | Goldwater Scholarship | UT San Antonio | UT San Antonio Goldwater Scholarship article |
| Marco Garza | Goldwater Scholarship | UT San Antonio | UT San Antonio Goldwater Scholarship article |
| Emily Holder | Goldwater Scholarship | UT San Antonio | UT San Antonio Goldwater Scholarship article |
| Durga Meenakshi Panneerdoss | Goldwater Scholarship | UT San Antonio | UT San Antonio Goldwater Scholarship article |
| Malik Farooq | Department of Defense SMART Award | Cornell University | |
| Michael Gomez | CMU Rales Fellows | Carnegie Mellon University | |
| Michael Gomez | GEM Fellowship | Carnegie Mellon University | |
| Michael Pozos | Public Policy and International Affairs Junior Summer Institute | University of Michican | |
| Cristian Garcia Pecina | Next Gen / Public Policy and International Affairs Fellowship | University of California Berkeley | |
| Ana Vallejo Chapa | Boren Scholarship | Senegal | |
| Katy Kettel | Boren Scholarship | Taiwan | |
| Candan Martin | Boren Fellowship | Japan | |
| Aswa Kamal | Harvard Public Policy Leadership Conference | Harvard University | |
| Michael Pozos | Harvard Public Policy Leadership Conference | Harvard University |
| Name | Award | Location | Press |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mariah Antopia | NSF Graduate Fellowship | University of Pennsylvania | Link |
| Marissa Coppin | NSF Graduate Fellowship | University of Pennsylvania | Link |
| Ernesto Flores | NSF Graduate Fellowship | Stanford University | Link |
| Luis Flores | NSF Graduate Fellowship | Johns Hopkins University | Link |
| Brandon Garcia-Castaneda | NSF Graduate Fellowship | UT San Antonio | Link |
| William Hughes | NSF Graduate Fellowship | Colorado State University | Link |
| Enrique Piedra | NSF Graduate Fellowship | UT Health San Antonio | Link |
| Jonah Espinoza | Fulbright UK Summer Institute | Queen's University Belfast | |
| Fernanda Flores | Fulbright Student Program - Study | Hungary | - |
| Kane Sandoval | Fulbright Student Program - ETA | Cambodia | Link |
| Jaci Finch | Fulbright Student Program - ETA | Estonia | Link |
| Danny Viadaurri | Fulbright Student Program- ETA | Spain | Link |
| Maddie Aguilar | Rotary Global Award | Spain | |
| Zenetta Hinojosa | Goldwater Scholarship | UT San Antonio | Link |
| Dylan Moran | Goldwater Scholarship | UT San Antonio | Link |
| Hamza Patwa | Goldwater Scholarship | UT San Antonio | Link |
| Lance Schwegman | Goldwater Scholarship | UT San Antonio | Link |
| Mitchell Foster |
Ernest F. Hollings Undergraduate Scholarship |
UT San Antonio | Link |
| Jordan Burchfield | Amgen Scholars | Yale University | - |
| Dylan Moran | Amgen Scholars | University of California Berkeley | |
| Lance Schwegman | Amgen Scholars | UT Southwestern | |
| Kayla Trujillo | Public Policy and International Affairs Junior Summer Institute | University of California Berkeley | |
| Adyasha Aruk | DAAD-Rise Germany | Germany | |
| Samantha Lugo | DAAD-Rise Germany | Germany | |
| Ryan Anhold | Boren Fellowship | Brazil |
| Name | Award | Location | Press |
|---|---|---|---|
| Margot Duque | Truman Scholarship | Link | |
| Lacey Allen-Bey | NSF Graduate Fellowship | UT San Antonio | Link |
| Naomi Alyafei | NSF Graduate Fellowship | Stanford University | Link |
| Joshua Chaj Ulloa | NSF Graduate Fellowship | California Institute of Technology | Link |
| Amanda Gomez | NSF Graduate Fellowship | UT San Antonio | Link |
| Miranda Lumbreras | NSF Graduate Fellowship | Duke University | Link |
| Kalei Oliver | NSF Graduate Fellowship | UT San Antonio | Link |
| Samantha Oviedo | NSF Graduate Fellowship | The Scripps Research Institute | Link |
| Tristan Pepper | NSF Graduate Fellowship | Georgia Institute of Technology / Emory | Link |
| Justin Sharpe | NSF Graduate Fellowship | UT San Antonio | Link |
| Morgan Struthers | NSF Graduate Fellowship | Vanderbilty University | Link |
| Juan Vasquez | NSF Graduate Fellowship | UC San Diego | Link |
| Jasbeth Medrano | Fulbright UK Summer Institute | University of Bristol | - |
| Paula Canales | Fulbright Student Program - ETA | Bahrain | Link |
| Madeline Morales | Fulbright Student Program - Study | Sweden | Link |
| Eliesha Perez | Fulbright Student Program - ETA | Thailand | Link |
| Joshua Perez | Fulbright Student Program - ETA | Turkey | Link |
| Axa Soria | Fulbright Student Program - ETA | Mexico | Link |
| Erica McFarland | Rotary Global Award | Canada | Link |
| Marissa Coppin | Goldwater Scholarship | UT San Antonio | Link |
| Ernesto Flores | Goldwater Scholarship | UT San Antonio | Link |
| Sean McFadden | Goldwater Scholarship | UT San Antonio | Link |
| Alex Kingery | Department of Defense SMART Award | JBSA Lackland, Texas | - |
| Joshua Chaj Ulloa | GEM Fellowship | ||
| Alec Solis | Amgen Scholars | Columbia University | - |
| Margot Duque | Public Policy and International Affairs Junior Summer Institute | Carnegie Mellon University | Link |
| Deniff Lara | Public Policy and International Affairs Junior Summer Institute | Carnegie Mellon University | Link |
| Hamza Patwa | DAAD-Rise Germany | Germany | |
| Jesus Facundo | Middlebury Summer Language HBCU/HSI/Tribal Scholarship | Middlebury College | Link |
| Name | Award | Location | Press |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sean Christian Tritley | NSF Graduate Fellowship | UT San Antonio | Link |
| Valeria Juarez | NSF Graduate Fellowship | Georgia Institute of Technology | Link |
| Zina Helal | NSF Graduate Fellowship | UT San Antonio | Link |
| Tanya Cruz | NSF Graduate Fellowship | UT San Antonio | Link |
| Forough Askarirad | Fulbright Student Program | Bulgaria | Link |
| Héctor R. Castrillón-Costa | Fulbright Student Program | St. Lucia | UTSA, COEHD News |
| Tom Varner | Fulbright Student Program | India | Link |
| Conrad Finos | Foreign Affairs IT Fellowship | UT San Antonio/US Dept. of State | Link |
| Samantha Oviedo | Goldwater Scholarship | UT San Antonio | Link |
| Joshua Lazaro | Amgen Scholars | Yale University | |
| Joseph Nieto | Amgen Scholars | UT Southwestern | - |
| Joshua Chaj Ulloa | Fulbright MITACS Globalink Canada Award | Canada | - |
| Ethan Schneider | DAAD-RISE Germany | Germany | - |
| Donald Moore | Boren Scholarship | Tajikistan (Persian) | - |
| Conrad Finos | Boren Scholarship | Japan (Japanese) | - |
| Elise Brittain | Boren Fellowship | Uzbekistan (Uzbek) | - |
| Donald Moore | Critical Language Scholarship | Kyrgyzstan (Russian) | - |
| Name | Award | Location | Press |
|---|---|---|---|
| Favour Obuseh | Ford Predoctoral Fellowship | Harvard-MIT | Link |
| Kaitlyn Varela | Ford Predoctoral Fellowship | UT San Antonio | Link |
| Jennifer Brett | NSF Graduate Fellowship | UT San Antonio | Link |
| Pete Gueldner | NSF Graduate Fellowship | University of Pittsburgh | Link |
| Kennedy Howland | NSF Graduate Fellowship | UT Austin | Link |
| Morgan Johnston | NSF Graduate Fellowship | UT San Antonio | Link |
| Elysa Jui | NSF Graduate Fellowship | Rice University | Link |
| Daniel Martinez | NSF Graduate Fellowship | MIT | Link |
| Favour Obuseh | NSF Graduate Fellowship | Harvard-MIT | Link |
| Daisy Paredes | NSF Graduate Fellowship | UT San Antonio | Link |
| Cynthia Perez | NSF Graduate Fellowship | UC Berkeley/UCSF | Link |
| Christian Strong | NSF Graduate Fellowship | California Institute of Technology | Link |
| Kaitlyn Varela | NSF Graduate Fellowship | UT San Antonio | Link |
| Amber Chin | Fulbright Student Program | Germany | Link |
| Arlae Gamez Luna | Fulbright Student Program | Germany | - |
| Monica Guerrero | Fulbright Student Program | Spain | - |
| Taylor Helmcamp | Fulbright Student Program | Belarus | - |
| Mariah Antopia | Goldwater Scholarship | UT San Antonio | Link |
| Joshua Chaj Ulloa | Goldwater Scholarship | UT San Antonio | Link |
| Adam Hooker | Goldwater Scholarship | UT San Antonio | Link |
| Tristan Pepper | Goldwater Scholarship | UT San Antonio | Link |
| Montana Meeker | Rotary Global Award | Taiwan | - |
| Finn Burmeister-Morton | Boren Scholarship - South Asian Flagship Language Initiative | India (Hindi) | - |
| Kathryn Wilson | Boren Scholarship - Turkish Flagship Language Initiative | Azerbaijan (Turkish) | - |
| Tiara Phipps | Department of Defense SMART Award& | US Army Public Health Center, Maryland | Link |
| Amalia Talijancic | Department of Defense SMART Award | Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma | - |
| Isabella Talijancic | Department of Defense SMART Award | Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma | - |
| Aisha Bah | DAAD-RISE Germany | Germany | - |
| Joshua Chaj Ulloa | DAAD-RISE Germany | Germany | - |
| Joshua Chaj Ulloa | Fulbright MITACS Globalink Canada Award& | Canada | - |
| Generra Strankschreier | Critical Language Scholarship | Kyrgyzstan (Russian) | - |
| Tristan Pepper | Clinton Global Initiative University | - | - |
| Name | Award | Location | Press |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aldo Sepulveda | NSF Graduate Fellowship | University of Hawai'i | Link |
| Melissa Cadena | NSF Graduate Fellowship | Georgia Tech/Emory University | Link |
| David Cody Hall | NSF Graduate Fellowship | University of Florida | Link |
| Hugo Lucitante | NSF Graduate Fellowship | University of Texas at San Antonio | Link |
| Carmen Varela | NSF Graduate Fellowship | University of Michigan | Link |
| Tristan Pepper | Fulbright UK Summer Institute | Glasgow School of Art/University of Strathclyde | Link |
| Myat May | Fulbright Student Program | Malaysia | - |
| Ana-Sofia Gonzalez | Fulbright Student Program | Colombia | Link |
| David Diaz | Fulbright Student Program | Taiwan | - |
| Naomi Alyafei | Goldwater Scholarship | UT San Antonio | Link |
| Christian Strong | Goldwater Scholarship | UT San Antonio | Link |
| Michael Roque Sanchez | Public Policy and International Affairs Junior Summer Institute | University of California Berkeley | - |
| Christian Strong | Think Swiss Scholarship | Switzerland | - |
| Generra Strankschreier | Critical Language Scholarship | Russia (Russian) | Link |
| Donald Moore | Critical Language Scholarship | Kyrgyzstan (Russian) | Link |
| Josh Peck | Harvard Public Policy Leadership Conference | Massachusetts, USA | Link |
| Name | Award | Location | Press |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rebeca Revilla | NSF Graduate Fellowship | The University of Alabama | Link |
| Travis Mark Kotzur | NSF Graduate Fellowship | University of Pennsylvania | Link |
| Lynée Massey | NSF Graduate Fellowship | The Scripps Research Institute | Link |
| Sanah Jivani | Truman Scholarship | - | Link |
| Aldo Sepulveda | Goldwater Scholarship | UT San Antonio | Link |
| Favour Obuseh | Goldwater Scholarship | UT San Antonio | Link |
| Jay'Len Boone | United Nations Association Youth Observer | - | Link |
| Justin Guerra | Amgen Scholars Program | Washington University in St. Louis | - |
| Ana-Sofia Gonzalez | Public Policy and International Affairs Junior Summer Institute | University of Michigan | - |
| Maria Victoria Alonso | Public Policy and International Affairs Junior Summer Institute | Princeton University | Link |
| Name | Award | Location | Press |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saifa Pirani | NSF Graduate Fellowship | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Link |
| David Cadena | NSF Graduate Fellowship | University of California San Diego | Link |
| Sara Dibrell | NSF Graduate Fellowship | California Institute of Technology | Link |
| Alexis Catala | NSF Graduate Fellowship | University of Colorado at Denver | Link |
| Alejandro Morales Retancourt | NSF Graduate Fellowship | University of Texas at San Antonio | Link |
| Clarissa Moore | Fulbright Student Program | Colombia | Link |
| Mariam Kerfai | Critial Language Scholarship | Russia (Russian) | Link |
| Jay'Len Boone | Cultural Vistas Fellow | - | Link |
| Jay'Len Boone | Harvard Public Policy Leadership Conference | Harvard University | - |
| Ileen Montemayor | Harvard Public Policy Leadership Conference | Harvard University | - |
| Name | Award | Location | Press |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jasmine King | NSF Graduate Fellowship | UC Berkeley | Link |
| Alisa Helen Isaac | NSF Graduate Fellowship | Texas A&M University | Link |
| Jason Giuliani | NSF Graduate Fellowship | University of Texas at San Antonio | Link |
| Madeline Cortez | NSF Graduate Fellowship | Baylor College of Medicine | Link |
| Sara Dibrell | Goldwater Scholarship | UT San Antonio | Link |
| Name | Award | Location | Press |
|---|---|---|---|
| Audrey Ynigez-Gutierrez | NSF Graduate Fellowship | Vanderbilt University | - |
| Christine DeMyers | NSF Graduate Fellowship | Arizona State University | - |
| Jessica Burch | NSF Graduate Fellowship | University of California Los Angeles | - |
| America Ruiz | Goldwater Scholarship | UT San Antonio | - |
| Name | Award | Location | Press |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marissa Wechsler | NSF Graduate Fellowship | UT Austin | Link |
| Kirstie Salinas | NSF Graduate Fellowship | UC Irvine | - |
| Jordyn Seillier | Critical Language Scholarship | Russia | - |
| Sofia Ahmed | Critical Language Scholarship | China | - |
Opportunities within the Honors College
The Honors College offers students the opportunity to participate in a number of different programs to further expand knowledge, especially in the realms of professional development, leadership development, and public service. Special programs are fully integrated into the Honors College curriculum, making credit transfer simple and ensuring that students are working toward Honors requirements.
