We’re proud to recognize the following UWB recipients of merit-based scholarships, fellowships and awards. Congratulations!
2012-2013 Academic Year
Leadership
- Emily Christian, Fulbright Award, International Education Administrators Program
Role: Interim Director of Student Services
Project: STEM programs and best practices in career development in Germany and France
- Yekaterina Klepanchuk, 2013-14 Coro Fellow in Public Affairs
Class of 2013, Global Studies
Placement: Pittsburgh, PA
- Aspasea McKenna, 2013 Clinton Global Initiative University
Class of 2013, Business
Project: "Using soccer as a development tool to increase primary education rates, combat poverty and break down gender and inter-ethnic divides"
- Christopher Nelson, Mary Gates Venture Scholarship
Class of 2013, Nursing
Project: "Policy Recommendations for Greenlandic and Danish Nursing"
- Alejandra Perez, Mary Gates Leadership Scholarship
Class of 2016, Society, Ethics, & Human Behavior
Project: "Beyond Dreaming: Scholarship List for Undocumented Students in Washington State"
Research
- Paulette Costanza, Mary Gates Research Scholarship
Class of 2013, Environmental Studies
Project: "Linking People, Highlands, and Climate: Climate change on high-elevation socio-ecological systems in the tropical Andes"
- Ty Edwards, Fulbright Research/Study Grant
Class of 2013, Master of Arts in Cultural Studies
Project: "Support Services for International Student Populations in Higher Education", University of British Columbia, Canada
- Dan Jaffe, Fulbright Scholar
Role: Professor of Atmospheric and Environmental Chemistry in the School of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
Placement: Distinguished Chair in Environmental Sciences at the Parthenope, University of Naples, Italy
- Marcus Johnson, Mary Gates Research Scholarship
Class of 2013, Global Studies
Project: "The Multi Dimensions of Blackness: Cultural Hegemony in the US and Abroad"
- Rena Kawasaki, UW Libraries Research Award for Undergraduates
Class of 2013, Community Psychology
Project: "How Language Use Indicates Acculturation and Enculturation Processes of Native Japanese Americans: Examples from the 1946 Issues of Hokubei Hochi"
- Rachel Kearns, NIST Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship
Class of 2014, Biology
Placement: Physical Measurement Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Jessica Manfredi, Leadership Alliance Summer Research - Early Identification Program (SR-EIP)
Class of 2014, Global Studies
Placement: Tufts University, Boston, MA
- Christopher Nelson, Fulbright Research/Study Grant
Class of 2013, Nursing
Project:"Understanding the Expanded Nursing Scope of Practice in Denmark and Greenland", University of the Arctic Consortium, Denmark
- Jenia Ostrovskaya, Mary Gates Research Scholarship
Class of 2014, Biology
Project: "Planarians Do Not Require Light Stimulus for Functional Regeneration of Photoreceptors"
Study Abroad
- Ashley Baker, GO! Scholarship
Class of 2015, Environmental Science
Program: Environmental Studies in the Ecuadorian Mainland and the Galapagos Islands
- Shauniece Drayton, Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship
Class of 2014, Community Psychology
Program: Zambia - Student Centered Health Education and Outreach: A Story of Urban and Rural Community Development
- Meliaokalani Lam, Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship
Class of 2014, Environmental Studies
Program: Peruvian Field Studies: Ecology and Community from the Andes to the Amazon
- Nykole Mitchell, Fritz Scholarship
Class of 2014, Society, Ethics & Human Behavior
Program: Disability in Limited Resource Environments Brazil
- Julia Nelson, Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship
Class of 2014, Global Studies
Program: Uppsala University Exchange, Sweden
- Justin Nygard, CIEE Language Intensive Focus Track (LIFT) Scholarship, Fritz Scholarship
Class of 2014, Global Studies
Study Abroad Program: Intensive Chinese Language and Culture, CIEE Study Center in Nanjing, China
- Sarah Reeves, GO! Scholarship
Class of 2015, Community Psychology, Environmental Studies
Program: SIT Nepal: Tibetan and Himalayan Peoples
- Christinna Rieken, GO! Scholarship
Class of 2014, Community Psychology
Program: Disability in Limited Resource Environments Brazil
- Christopher Wright, GO! Scholarship
Class of 2014, Environmental Science
Program: Environmental Studies in the Ecuadorian Mainland and the Galapagos Islands
- Michael Wright, Boren Scholarship Alternate, Fritz Scholarship
Class of 2014, Law, Economics and Public Policy
Study Abroad Program: The Russian Far East, School of Russian and Asian Studies in Vladivostok, Russia
- Maggie Yaddoff, GO! Scholarship
Class of 2016, CUSP
Program: Natural History of Costa Rica
- Study Abroad Ambassadors, Recipients of UW Bothell Study Abroad Scholarship
2011-2012 Academic Year
Leadership
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Hung Dang, Fulbright Award, U.S.–Japan International Education Administrators Program
Role: Associate Vice Chancellor for Enrollment Management and Student Affairs
Project: To strengthen knowledge of the Japanese education system and student learning styles in order help devise programs to increase the persistence rate of international students visiting the U.S. from Asia
- Christopher McRae, Edward E. Carlson Leadership Award
Class of 2012, Community Psychology
Future Plans: PhD in Family and Community Studies and Curriculum and Instruction at Clemson University
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Shahrzad Mahmoudi, Association of Women in Computing Scholarship
Class of 2012, Media and Communication, Minor: Information and Technology
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Benjamin Wiselogle, Gates Cambridge Scholarship Nominee
Class of 2012, Global Studies
Proposed Program: Master's in Development Studies at University of Cambridge
Research
- Pundeep Dhunna, Mary Gates Scholar, 2012 Summer Institute in the Arts and Humanities
Class of 2013, Global Studies
Research Project: "Ethnic Vietnamese but Cambodian - Ambiguous Identities"
- Ana Valentina Humphrey, UW Class of 1954 Achievement Scholarship
Class of 2012, Community Psychology
Project: "Legal Research Regarding the Value of Cross-Cultural Communication and Cultural Competence"
- Marcus Johnson, Mary Gates Scholar, 2012 Summer Institute in the Arts and Humanities
Class of 2013, Global Studies
Research Project: "Dimensions of Blackness in the Dominican Republic"
- Mahala Lettvin, Mary Gates Scholar, 2012 Summer Institute in the Arts and Humanities
Class of 2013, American Studies
Research Project: "Between Longing and Belonging: Identity Struggles for Chilean exiles in the U.S."
- Christopher McRae, Mary Gates Research Scholarship
Class of 2012, Community Psychology
Project: "Building a Supportive Learning Community: Developing Best Practices for Veterans in Higher Education"
Advisor: Eric Stewart, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences
- Ronnie Thibault, Mary Gates Research Scholarship
Class of 2012, Society, Ethics, & Human Behavior
Project: "Can Autistics Redefine Autism? The Cultural Politics of Autistic Activism"
Advisor: Benjamin Gardner, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences
- Gabriela Wright-Trejo, Mary Gates Scholar, 2012 Summer Institute in the Arts and Humanities
Class of 2013, Global Studies
Research Project: "El Motor de Conocimiento: Mercedes Sosa, el conocimiento indigena y la politica involucrada"
Study Abroad
- Lan Le, GO! Scholarship for Study Abroad
Class of 2013, Biology
Program: BNHS India - Health Issues in a Developing Nation Exploration Seminar