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Student and Alumni Awards

Colorado College students and alumni, representing a variety of disciplines and departments, are widely recognized for their academic excellence.

2025

Sasha Akinchina '25 Awarded El Pomar Fellowship Economics & Business

Sasha Akinchina '25 Awarded El Pomar Fellowship

Andrew Han '25 Earns Watson Fellowship Outdoor Education

Andrew Han '25 Earns Watson Fellowship

Dan Schmidt '25 Earns Watson Fellowship Interdisciplinary

Dan Schmidt '25 Earns Watson Fellowship

Henry Moraja '25 Awarded CBYX Placement German

Henry Moraja '25 Awarded CBYX Placement

2024

Isabel DeVito ’24 Named Macmillan and Rotary Global Scholar Organismal Biology & Ecology

Isabel DeVito ’24 Named Macmillan and Rotary Global Scholar

Deksyos Damtew ’22 Named Marshall-Motley Scholar Interdisciplinary

Deksyos Damtew ’22 Named Marshall-Motley Scholar

Natalia Dellavalle ’18 Wins Fulbright Research Award to Lesotho Mathematics & Computer Science

Natalia Dellavalle ’18 Wins Fulbright Research Award to Lesotho

Boettcher Scholar Owen Rask ’24 Looks Back on Accomplishments Economics & Business

Boettcher Scholar Owen Rask ’24 Looks Back on Accomplishments

Sean McGonigle ’24 Wins JET Award Interdisciplinary

Sean McGonigle ’24 Wins JET Award

Combe ’27 Wins Campus Compact Newman Civic Fellowship Interdisciplinary

Combe ’27 Wins Campus Compact Newman Civic Fellowship

Denise Geronimo Wins Fulbright Research Award in the Philippines Interdisciplinary

Denise Geronimo Wins Fulbright Research Award in the Philippines

Skyler Stark-Ragsdale '21 Wins Fulbright ETA to Mozambique Awards

Skyler Stark-Ragsdale '21 Wins Fulbright ETA to Mozambique

Haley Strom '24 Wins Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Award to Bulgaria Awards

Haley Strom '24 Wins Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Award to Bulgaria

Atquetzali Quiroz ’24 Awarded Prestigious Watson Fellowship Feminist & Gender Studies

Atquetzali Quiroz ’24 Awarded Prestigious Watson Fellowship

CC Gilman Scholar Studies Buddhist Creativity in India and Nepal Mathematics & Computer Science

CC Gilman Scholar Studies Buddhist Creativity in India and Nepal

2023

A Banner Year for CC Graduates Receiving National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships Interdisciplinary

A Banner Year for CC Graduates Receiving National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships

Ramirez Earns Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Jordan Chemistry & Biochemistry

Ramirez Earns Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Jordan

Two CC Students Named 2023 Goldwater Scholars Awards

Two CC Students Named 2023 Goldwater Scholars

Al Lo ’22 Earns Princeton in Asia Fellowship Interdisciplinary

Al Lo ’22 Earns Princeton in Asia Fellowship

Student Seed Innovation Grant Winner Explores LGBTQ Communities in Europe English

Student Seed Innovation Grant Winner Explores LGBTQ Communities in Europe

Jasmine Linder ’23 Wins Rare Arts Fulbright Award Art

Jasmine Linder ’23 Wins Rare Arts Fulbright Award

Tamar Crump ’23 Wins Japanese Exchange and Teaching Award Awards

Tamar Crump ’23 Wins Japanese Exchange and Teaching Award

Chloe Brooks-Kistler ’23 Wins Top Denver Press Club Award Journalism

Chloe Brooks-Kistler ’23 Wins Top Denver Press Club Award

Marco Barracchia ’22 Awarded Erasmus Mundus Excellence Scholarship Awards

Marco Barracchia ’22 Awarded Erasmus Mundus Excellence Scholarship

Benjamin Murphy ’25 Wins Newman Civic Fellowship Economics & Business

Benjamin Murphy ’25 Wins Newman Civic Fellowship

Maddi Schink '23 Named Watson Fellow and Fulbright Finalist Interdisciplinary

Maddi Schink '23 Named Watson Fellow and Fulbright Finalist

CooXooEii Black wins Rattle Chapbook Prize English

CooXooEii Black wins Rattle Chapbook Prize

2022

Autumn Rivera ’04, MAT ’05 a Finalist for Science and Math Teachers Award Interdisciplinary

Autumn Rivera ’04, MAT ’05 a Finalist for Science and Math Teachers Award

Grace Andrews ’22 Garners Teach for America Position Interdisciplinary

Grace Andrews ’22 Garners Teach for America Position

Record Number of CC Students Awarded Gilman Scholarships News

Record Number of CC Students Awarded Gilman Scholarships

Fulbright Winner Heading Back to Germany Interdisciplinary

Fulbright Winner Heading Back to Germany

Grace Evans ’22 to go to Greenland to Teach English on Fulbright Awards

Grace Evans ’22 to go to Greenland to Teach English on Fulbright

Nick Cleveland-Stout ’22 Wins a Fulbright Scholarship Political Science

Nick Cleveland-Stout ’22 Wins a Fulbright Scholarship

Sociology Major Wins Newman Civic Fellowship Sociology

Sociology Major Wins Newman Civic Fellowship

Rana Abdu ’22 and Aleesa Chua ’22 Recognized by the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program Chemistry & Biochemistry

Rana Abdu ’22 and Aleesa Chua ’22 Recognized by the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program

Kate Barnes ’19 Receives Fulbright Grant to Study in Hungary Awards

Kate Barnes ’19 Receives Fulbright Grant to Study in Hungary

Maddi Schink '23 Wins Truman Scholarship Interdisciplinary

Maddi Schink '23 Wins Truman Scholarship

Best Friends Earn Grant to Help Improve Community’s Safety CCE

Best Friends Earn Grant to Help Improve Community’s Safety

Judy Lynne Fisher (Feminist & Gender Studies ’20) recently earned a Fulbright award! Feminist & Gender Studies

Judy Lynne Fisher (Feminist & Gender Studies ’20) recently earned a Fulbright award!

Political Science Major Will Ride Scholarship To Turkey Political Science

Political Science Major Will Ride Scholarship To Turkey

Nine CC Students Named Fulbright Semifinalists News

Nine CC Students Named Fulbright Semifinalists

Maddi Schink '23 in Running for Truman Scholarship Environmental Program

Maddi Schink '23 in Running for Truman Scholarship

Congratulations to Sage Reynolds ('22), Co-Editor of "The Reproductive Justice Briefing Book" Feminist & Gender Studies

Congratulations to Sage Reynolds ('22), Co-Editor of "The Reproductive Justice Briefing Book"

2021

Maddi Schink ’23 Receives Gilman Scholarship to Argentina Environmental Program

Maddi Schink ’23 Receives Gilman Scholarship to Argentina

Sam Cadigan ’21 Wins Honors for Design Thesis Art

Sam Cadigan ’21 Wins Honors for Design Thesis

Grace Perry ’19 Receives Fulbright Research Grant to Uruguay Sociology

Grace Perry ’19 Receives Fulbright Research Grant to Uruguay

Saria Sato Bajracharya ’20 Named Erasmus Mundus Scholar Environmental Program

Saria Sato Bajracharya ’20 Named Erasmus Mundus Scholar

Sophie Cardin ’22 Named Truman Scholar Political Science

Sophie Cardin ’22 Named Truman Scholar

Sierra Takushi ’21 Receives Fulbright to Thailand Interdisciplinary

Sierra Takushi ’21 Receives Fulbright to Thailand

Abby Roat ’22 a 2021-22 Goldwater Scholar Geology

Abby Roat ’22 a 2021-22 Goldwater Scholar

Cade Quigley ’23 Named Goldwater Scholar Geology

Cade Quigley ’23 Named Goldwater Scholar

Anya Steinberg ’21 Grand-Prize Winner in NPR Podcast Competition Awards

Anya Steinberg ’21 Grand-Prize Winner in NPR Podcast Competition

Ben Gellman ’22, Deksyos Damtew ’22 Projects for Peace Winners Awards

Ben Gellman ’22, Deksyos Damtew ’22 Projects for Peace Winners

Sophie Cardin ’22 Named Newman Civic Fellow Political Science

Sophie Cardin ’22 Named Newman Civic Fellow

CC Has Record-Tying 12 Fulbright Semifinalists in Range of Disciplines Awards

CC Has Record-Tying 12 Fulbright Semifinalists in Range of Disciplines

2020

Sam Sanson ’20 Wins Denver Press Club Award Awards

Sam Sanson ’20 Wins Denver Press Club Award

Emma Carlson ’20 Wins Fulbright to University of Sheffield Interdisciplinary

Emma Carlson ’20 Wins Fulbright to University of Sheffield

Alesandra Tejeda ’20 Receives Watson Fellowship for Photography Environmental Program

Alesandra Tejeda ’20 Receives Watson Fellowship for Photography

Natalie Gubbay ’20 Receives Fulbright Research Award Awards

Natalie Gubbay ’20 Receives Fulbright Research Award

Jerrell Cockerham ’21 Receives Goldwater Scholarship Mathematics & Computer Science

Jerrell Cockerham ’21 Receives Goldwater Scholarship

Allie Kreitman ’21 Named a Goldwater Scholar Molecular Biology

Allie Kreitman ’21 Named a Goldwater Scholar

Madeline Lucey ’18 Receives NSF Fellowship for Astrophysics Research Physics

Madeline Lucey ’18 Receives NSF Fellowship for Astrophysics Research

Allison Gish ’20 Receives Fulbright ETA to Czech Republic English

Allison Gish ’20 Receives Fulbright ETA to Czech Republic

Willa Serling ’20 Named Erasmus Mundus Scholar Anthropology

Willa Serling ’20 Named Erasmus Mundus Scholar

Andre Dufresne ’21 Named Newman Civic Fellow Collaborative for Community Engagement

Andre Dufresne ’21 Named Newman Civic Fellow

Kenneth Crossley ’19 Receives Erasmus Mundus Scholarship Physics

Kenneth Crossley ’19 Receives Erasmus Mundus Scholarship

CC Named a 2019-20 Top Producer of Fulbrights Awards

CC Named a 2019-20 Top Producer of Fulbrights

Congratulations to CC’s 10 Fulbright Semifinalists! News

Congratulations to CC’s 10 Fulbright Semifinalists!

2019

Naomi Tsai ’19 Receives AIF Clinton Fellowship to India Biology

Naomi Tsai ’19 Receives AIF Clinton Fellowship to India

Matt Nadel ’15 Earns NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship Alumni

Matt Nadel ’15 Earns NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship

Paulina Ukrainets ’19 Receives Princeton in Asia Fellowship English

Paulina Ukrainets ’19 Receives Princeton in Asia Fellowship

Caleigh Cassidy ’18 Has Senior Thesis Published Psychology

Caleigh Cassidy ’18 Has Senior Thesis Published

Amanda Martin ’19 Awarded Research Fulbright to South Africa Organismal Biology & Ecology

Amanda Martin ’19 Awarded Research Fulbright to South Africa

Jeronimo Miranda Castro ’18 Receives Erasmus Mundus Scholarship Chemistry & Biochemistry

Jeronimo Miranda Castro ’18 Receives Erasmus Mundus Scholarship

Claire Derry ’19 Receives Fulbright ETA to Moldova Alumni

Claire Derry ’19 Receives Fulbright ETA to Moldova

Beka Adair ’16 Receives Research Fulbright to Kyrgyz Republic Alumni

Beka Adair ’16 Receives Research Fulbright to Kyrgyz Republic

Harrison Raine ’19 Named Watson Fellow Organismal Biology & Ecology

Harrison Raine ’19 Named Watson Fellow

Lindsey Aronson ’19 Receives Fulbright ETA to Spain English

Lindsey Aronson ’19 Receives Fulbright ETA to Spain

Ines Siepmann ’19 Receives Erasmus Mundus Scholarship Chemistry & Biochemistry

Ines Siepmann ’19 Receives Erasmus Mundus Scholarship

Megan Bott ’20, Jessica Ramos ’20 Win Projects for Peace Award Interdisciplinary

Megan Bott ’20, Jessica Ramos ’20 Win Projects for Peace Award

Isaak Belongia ’21 Wins Critical Language Scholarship to Study Turkish Music

Isaak Belongia ’21 Wins Critical Language Scholarship to Study Turkish

Camilla Fuller ’19 Receives Fulbright ETA to Thailand Interdisciplinary

Camilla Fuller ’19 Receives Fulbright ETA to Thailand

Elam Boockvar-Klein ’20 Named Newman Civic Fellow Sociology

Elam Boockvar-Klein ’20 Named Newman Civic Fellow

Rishi Ling ’18 Receives Princeton in Asia Fellowship Music

Rishi Ling ’18 Receives Princeton in Asia Fellowship

Keenan Amer ’19 Wins NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship Organismal Biology & Ecology

Keenan Amer ’19 Wins NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship

Grace Hale ’20 Takes First Place in Music Competition Music

Grace Hale ’20 Takes First Place in Music Competition

Jia Mei ’21 Awarded Gilman Scholarship Molecular Biology

Jia Mei ’21 Awarded Gilman Scholarship

Congratulations to CC’s Record 12 Fulbright Semifinalists Awards

Congratulations to CC’s Record 12 Fulbright Semifinalists

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