Seven UB students and alumni have won Fulbright awards, the prestigious national scholarship competition for grants to study, research and teach abroad.
Taylor Coleman wins Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship
7/19/22
Taylor Coleman’s dissertation concentrates on the movement of populations across territories and the ideologies around race and Black liberation in the Caribbean.
UB students awarded prestigious Goldwater Scholarships
5/12/22
Paul Dewan Jr., Krish Patel and Meghan Sullivan are among a competitive pool of national applicants to receive 2022 Barry Goldwater Scholarship Awards.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
