Celine DeCambre, Luiza Perez Ortiz, S. Rashid and Esther Turay received state scholarships awarded to students entering or enrolled in mental health degree programs.
Lea Kyle and Sydney Swedick are UB’s latest recipients of the most prestigious and competitive research scholarship offered for undergraduate STEM students.
Fellowships and scholarships are among the most valuable forms of aid you can receive during your college career and are designed to support students who have exceptional academic records and potential.
Kayleigh Hamernik, an environmental studies major, also minors in Asian studies. She will study Hindi at the American Institute of Indian Studies in Jaipur, Rajasthan.
Jenny Simon received a Critical Language Scholarship in 2018 and has applied for a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in Mongolia to pursue her dreams of learning more about China and becoming a teacher.
Izzy Starr has received a prestigious fellowship from Microsoft Research. The Ada Lovelace Fellowship is a new fellowship for Microsoft Research and Starr is one of the first five students to receive it.
When one of Mariangela Perrella’s faculty mentors wrote her a recommendation for the Fulbright Scholarship, she called Perrella a “thinking dancer and a dancing thinker.” She combines a passion for integrating dance and movement with innovative classroom techniques that help teach children with special needs.
Called a “rising star” by top engineering faculty and administrators, Ian DesJardin stands out among the university’s exemplary students. His mission: launching a satellite built at UB to gather data on space debris to provide a way to better track the debris and hopefully avoid collisions with active satellites.
Conor McMahon, a 2019 UB Graduate spent summer 2019 studying Mandarin in Taiwan on a Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) and has chosen to pursue a PhD in philosophy at the University of Oklahoma.
Ali Al Qaraghuli chose electrical engineering because it is a common platform that combines multiple interests. The Arthur A. Schomburg Fellowship affords Al Qaraghuli the opportunity to do further research in a field that interests him.
Sean Kaczmarek was chosen to receive a Marshall Scholarship, one of the most selective graduate fellowships available to American undergraduates and an honor many consider the country's most prestigious scholarship.
