2024-25 Recipients
Our University of Illinois students continue to shine!
Voyager Scholarship

Gabrielle Capone

Leland Pan

Frankie Ward
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).
Voyager Scholarship

Christiana Lewis

Andres Vazquez
Goldwater Scholarship

Sylvia E

Daniel Feng

Alice Gao

Amelia Korveziroska

Riley Trendler
Critical Language Scholarship

Shireen Aydogan

Xavier Davenport

Karel Pene

Sylvia Techmanski
Knight-Hennessy Scholarship

Kat Hu
Boren Scholarship

Di Lan Johnson
Soros Fellowship

Keerthana Hogirala
Beinecke Scholarship

Justin Wytmar
Fulbright Scholarship

Lydia Alvarez

Roshan Betkerur

Amelia Kolany

Andrew Schwenk
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

Grace Mitchell
Voyager Scholarship

Ella Dennis

Linh Nguyen
Goldwater Scholarship

Daniel Cudzich

Max Fan

Aidan Lindsay
Boren Scholarship

Neel Khattri

Tina Wayne

Kellie Sucha
Fulbright Scholarship

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

Jacqueline Becerra

Robert Herbolich

Aynur Namik
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

Ella Dennis

Jake Gulick

Brendan Rattin
Critical Language Scholarship

Caleb Apperson

Dahlia Davis

Aiman Ghani (declined)

Hamza Haq
Fulbright Scholarship

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

Braden Moore
Gilman Scholarship
Schwarzman Scholarship

Boming Yang
Truman Scholarship

Mariama Mwilambwe
Udall Scholarships

Ethan Moore

Jenna Schaefer
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

Kolten Conklen
Boren Scholarship

Kaya Van Dyke
Critical Language Scholarship

Mary Kate Buchheit

Audrey Dombro

Buyandelger Tsetsengarid

Hannah Wernecke

Priyanka Zylstra
Fulbright Scholarship

Richard Chao

Michelle Dinh

Christopher Goodwin

Banu Gulecyuz

Rhiannon Hein

Grace Maloney

Jade Roberts

Sara Verma
Gilman Scholarship
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

Emmarie Alexander

Marta Cortinovis

Evan Dray

Ariel Lerman
Knight-Hennessy Scholarship

Sriyankari Chitti