2025-26 Recipients
Read more about our 2025-2026 Award recipients!
Churchill Scholarship
Balut awarded prestigious Churchill Scholarship!
David Balut
Goldwater Scholarship
Four Illinois students receive Goldwater scholarships!
George Bayliss
Peter Golemis
Maxwell Mamishev
Cliff Sun
Critical Language Scholarship
Four Illinois students receive Critical Language Scholarships
Di Lan Johnson
Christine Nguyen
Karel Pene
Adam Syed
2024-25 Recipients
University of Illinois students continue to shine! In 2025 we were #1 in number of UK Summer Fulbright Awards and in the top ten nationally in Voyager Scholarships, #1 in the past two years for Goldwater Scholarships, and in the spring term, in the top ten in the country for Gilman Scholarships. We also had a Rhodes finalist, two Boren Scholars, two Critical Language Scholars, 5 students offered Fulbright Grants, and a Truman Scholar.
Goldwater Scholarship
Four Illinois students receive Goldwater scholarship!
David Balut
Alyssa Shih
Dmitriy Shvydkoy
Annie Zeng
Truman Scholarship
Truman Scholarship awarded to U. of I. junior!
Hannah Sundararajan
UK Summer Fulbright Scholarship
Two Illinois students selected for Fulbright’s Summer Institute to the UK
Lindsay Bitner-Mitchell
Cecelia Escobar
Boren Scholarship
Illinois student awarded Boren funding for overseas language study
Almoatasim Shahbain
Helen Ortiz
Lydia Schieleit
Fulbright Scholarship
Illinois students awarded Fulbright grants
Anthony Erkan
Nadia Hernandez
David Miller
Mia Rode
Voyager Scholarship
Three Illinois students awarded Voyager Scholarships!
Clara Alvarez-Leyva
Carlos Hernandez
Danielle Mitchell
2023-24 Recipients
In 2023-24, the University of Illinois had a Rhodes and Schwarzman finalist and over $1 million received among our two Voyager Scholars, Boren Scholar, four Critical Language Scholars, 32 Gilman Scholars, eight students offered Fulbright Grants, a Beinecke Scholar, Soros Scholar, Knight-Hennessy Scholar, and five Goldwater recipients (the most in the country).
Goldwater Scholarship
Sylvia E
Daniel Feng
Alice Gao
Amelia Korveziroska
Riley Trendler
Critical Language Scholarship
Read more about our 2023-24 CLS Scholars here!
Shireen Aydogan
Xavier Davenport
Karel Pene
Sylvia Techmanski
Knight-Hennessy Scholarship
Read more about our Knight-Hennessy Scholar here.
Kat Hu
Boren Scholarship
Illinois student awarded Boren funding for overseas language study.
Di Lan Johnson
Soros Fellowship
LAS alumna receives Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans
Keerthana Hogirala
Beinecke Scholarship
Read more about Illinois student awarded Beinecke Scholarship
Justin Wytmar
Fulbright Scholarship
Illinois students receive 2023-24 Fulbright grants!
Lydia Alvarez
Roshan Betkerur
Amelia Kolany
Andrew Schwenk
Voyager Scholarship
Three Illinois students awarded Voyager Scholarships!
Gabrielle Capone
Leland Pan
Frankie Ward
2022-23 Recipients
Illinois students continue to shine. In 2022-23, two Illinois students received Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowships, one was named a Schwarzman Scholar, two awarded Voyager Scholars, one a Rhodes finalist, three Goldwater recipients, three Boren Scholarships, three Critical Language Scholarships, 22 Gilman Scholarships, and 15 students offered Fulbright Grants (a record 38% of our pool).
Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship
Read about Illinois Alumna Brittney Nadler awarded a Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship and about Illinois Alumnus LaVontae Brooks awarded a Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship
Brittney Nadler
Schwarzman Scholarship
Read about Illinois senior named Schwarzman Scholar
Grace Mitchell
Goldwater Scholarship
Read about our 2022-23 Goldwater Scholars!
Daniel Cudzich
Max Fan
Aidan Lindsay
Boren Scholarship
Read about our 2022-23 Boren Scholars!
Neel Khattri
Tina Wayne
Kellie Sucha
Fulbright Scholarship
Read about our 2022-23 Fulbright Scholars!
Caleb Apperson
Daniela Barbosa
Luisa Daniela Carrillo
Drew Gooding
Lilian Lucas
Mariama Mwilambwe
Nicole Park
Jonathan Phalen
Raphael Portillo
Alexandra Schneeberger
Matthew Schultz
Lila Ann Wong
Critical Language Scholarships
Read about our 2022-23 CLS Scholars!
Jacqueline Becerra
Robert Herbolich
Aynur Namik
Voyager Scholarship
Read about our Voyager Scholars!
Christiana Lewis
Andres Vazquez
2021-22 Recipients
Illinois students continue to shine. A record tying 16 Illini earned Fulbright grants (30% of our pool) and another 6 students were named Fulbright alternates. All 3 of our Boren applicants won Boren Scholarships, and in the Udall Scholarship competition, we had both a recipient and an honorable mention. This years award recipients also included a Goldwater, Schwarzman, and Truman Scholar. An Illinois applicant was named a Rhodes finalist, and 4 students were awarded Critical Language Scholarships. Further, a robust 24 students (80% of our applicants) received Gilman Scholarships.
Boren Scholarship
Read about our 2021-22 Boren Scholars!
Ella Dennis
Jake Gulick
Brendan Rattin
Critical Language Scholarship
Read about our 2021-22 CLS scholars!
Caleb Apperson
Dahlia Davis
Aiman Ghani (declined)
Hamza Haq
Fulbright Scholarship
Read about our 2021-22 Fulbright scholars!
Jan Balan
Carolina Bieri
Ariel Burtley
Janani Comar
Travis Dore
Sophia Ebel
Aiman Ghani
Hamed Kadiani
Lauren Lynch
Owen MacDonald
Sarah Mininsohn
Folashade Olumola
Amanda Oversen
Ksenia Polyarskaya
Damir Vucicevic
Goldwater Scholarship
Read About our 2021-22 Goldwater Scholar!
Braden Moore
Gilman Scholarship
Read about 24 University of Illinois students offered Gilman Scholarships!
Schwarzman Scholarship
Read About Our 2021-22 Schwarzman Scholar!
Boming Yang
Truman Scholarship
Read about our 2021-22 Truman scholar!
Mariama Mwilambwe
Udall Scholarships
Read about our 2021-22 Udall Scholars!
Ethan Moore
Jenna Schaefer
Voyager Scholarship
Read about Illinois students selected for inaugural Voyager Scholarships
Ella Dennis
Linh Nguyen
2020-21 Recipients
2021 saw a record number of University of Illinois students applying for various awards, and the recipient numbers mirrored that: a Knight-Hennessy Scholar (76 of 8,000), Rhodes Scholar, Beinecke Scholar (16 from 135 nominating institutions), five Critical Language Scholars, and a Boren Scholar. Ten of our eleven Gilman applicants earned a scholarship, and we also had a student named a Udall Honorable Mention. Moreover, for the first time since 2005, all four of our nominated students received Goldwater Scholarships. In the Fulbright competition, 37 of our record 69 applicants were named finalists; among them three were named alternates and nine offered grants in a year that nationally saw a drastic decrease in the number of Fulbright awards available.
Beinecke Scholar
Read about our 2020-21 Beinecke scholar!
Kolten Conklen
Boren Scholarship
Read about our 2020-21 Boren scholar!
Kaya Van Dyke
Critical Language Scholarship
Read About Our 2020-21 CLS Scholars!
Mary Kate Buchheit
Audrey Dombro
Buyandelger Tsetsengarid
Hannah Wernecke
Priyanka Zylstra
Fulbright Scholarship
Read About Our 2020-21 Fulbright Scholars!
Richard Chao
Michelle Dinh
Christopher Goodwin
Banu Gulecyuz
Rhiannon Hein
Grace Maloney
Jade Roberts
Sara Verma
Gilman Scholarship
Read about our 2020-21 Gilman Scholars!
15 Illinois students were offered Gilman Scholarships, ranking Illinois in the top 20 as far as number of recipients from the October 2021 award cycle.
Goldwater Scholarship
Read about our 2020-21 Goldwater Scholars!
Emmarie Alexander
Marta Cortinovis
Evan Dray
Ariel Lerman
Knight-Hennessy Scholarship
Read about our 2020-21 Knight-Hennessy Scholars!
Sriyankari Chitti