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Colorado College students and alumni, representing a variety of disciplines and departments, are widely recognized for their academic excellence.

2022

Autumn Rivera ’04, MAT ’05 a Finalist for Science and Math Teachers Award Interdisciplinary

Autumn Rivera ’04, MAT ’05 a Finalist for Science and Math Teachers Award

Grace Andrews ’22 Garners Teach for America Position Interdisciplinary

Grace Andrews ’22 Garners Teach for America Position

Record Number of CC Students Awarded Gilman Scholarships News

Record Number of CC Students Awarded Gilman Scholarships

Fulbright Winner Heading Back to Germany Interdisciplinary

Fulbright Winner Heading Back to Germany

Grace Evans ’22 to go to Greenland to Teach English on Fulbright News

Grace Evans ’22 to go to Greenland to Teach English on Fulbright

Nick Cleveland-Stout ’22 Wins a Fulbright Scholarship Political Science

Nick Cleveland-Stout ’22 Wins a Fulbright Scholarship

Sociology Major Wins Newman Civic Fellowship Sociology

Sociology Major Wins Newman Civic Fellowship

Rana Abdu ’22 and Aleesa Chua ’22 Recognized by the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program Chemistry & Biochemistry

Rana Abdu ’22 and Aleesa Chua ’22 Recognized by the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program

Kate Barnes ’19 Receives Fulbright Grant to Study in Hungary News

Kate Barnes ’19 Receives Fulbright Grant to Study in Hungary

Maddi Schink '23 Wins Truman Scholarship Interdisciplinary

Maddi Schink '23 Wins Truman Scholarship

Best Friends Earn Grant to Help Improve Community’s Safety News

Best Friends Earn Grant to Help Improve Community’s Safety

Judy Lynne Fisher (Feminist & Gender Studies ’20) recently earned a Fulbright award! Feminist & Gender Studies

Judy Lynne Fisher (Feminist & Gender Studies ’20) recently earned a Fulbright award!

Political Science Major Will Ride Scholarship To Turkey Political Science

Political Science Major Will Ride Scholarship To Turkey

Nine CC Students Named Fulbright Semifinalists News

Nine CC Students Named Fulbright Semifinalists

Maddi Schink '23 in Running for Truman Scholarship Environmental Program

Maddi Schink '23 in Running for Truman Scholarship

Congratulations to Sage Reynolds ('22), Co-Editor of "The Reproductive Justice Briefing Book" Feminist & Gender Studies

Congratulations to Sage Reynolds ('22), Co-Editor of "The Reproductive Justice Briefing Book"

2021

Maddi Schink ’23 Receives Gilman Scholarship to Argentina Environmental Program

Maddi Schink ’23 Receives Gilman Scholarship to Argentina

Sam Cadigan ’21 Wins Honors for Design Thesis Art

Sam Cadigan ’21 Wins Honors for Design Thesis

Grace Perry ’19 Receives Fulbright Research Grant to Uruguay Sociology

Grace Perry ’19 Receives Fulbright Research Grant to Uruguay

Saria Sato Bajracharya ’20 Named Erasmus Mundus Scholar Environmental Program

Saria Sato Bajracharya ’20 Named Erasmus Mundus Scholar

Sophie Cardin ’22 Named Truman Scholar Political Science

Sophie Cardin ’22 Named Truman Scholar

Sierra Takushi ’21 Receives Fulbright to Thailand Interdisciplinary

Sierra Takushi ’21 Receives Fulbright to Thailand

Abby Roat ’22 a 2021-22 Goldwater Scholar Geology

Abby Roat ’22 a 2021-22 Goldwater Scholar

Cade Quigley ’23 Named Goldwater Scholar Geology

Cade Quigley ’23 Named Goldwater Scholar

Anya Steinberg ’21 Grand-Prize Winner in NPR Podcast Competition News

Anya Steinberg ’21 Grand-Prize Winner in NPR Podcast Competition

Ben Gellman ’22, Deksyos Damtew ’22 Projects for Peace Winners Awards

Ben Gellman ’22, Deksyos Damtew ’22 Projects for Peace Winners

Sophie Cardin ’22 Named Newman Civic Fellow Political Science

Sophie Cardin ’22 Named Newman Civic Fellow

CC Has Record-Tying 12 Fulbright Semifinalists in Range of Disciplines News

CC Has Record-Tying 12 Fulbright Semifinalists in Range of Disciplines

2020

Sam Sanson ’20 Wins Denver Press Club Award News

Sam Sanson ’20 Wins Denver Press Club Award

Emma Carlson ’20 Wins Fulbright to University of Sheffield Interdisciplinary

Emma Carlson ’20 Wins Fulbright to University of Sheffield

Alesandra Tejeda ’20 Receives Watson Fellowship for Photography Environmental Program

Alesandra Tejeda ’20 Receives Watson Fellowship for Photography

Natalie Gubbay ’20 Receives Fulbright Research Award News

Natalie Gubbay ’20 Receives Fulbright Research Award

Jerrell Cockerham ’21 Receives Goldwater Scholarship Mathematics & Computer Science

Jerrell Cockerham ’21 Receives Goldwater Scholarship

Allie Kreitman ’21 Named a Goldwater Scholar Molecular Biology

Allie Kreitman ’21 Named a Goldwater Scholar

Madeline Lucey ’18 Receives NSF Fellowship for Astrophysics Research Physics

Madeline Lucey ’18 Receives NSF Fellowship for Astrophysics Research

Allison Gish ’20 Receives Fulbright ETA to Czech Republic English

Allison Gish ’20 Receives Fulbright ETA to Czech Republic

Willa Serling ’20 Named Erasmus Mundus Scholar Anthropology

Willa Serling ’20 Named Erasmus Mundus Scholar

Andre Dufresne ’21 Named Newman Civic Fellow News

Andre Dufresne ’21 Named Newman Civic Fellow

Kenneth Crossley ’19 Receives Erasmus Mundus Scholarship Physics

Kenneth Crossley ’19 Receives Erasmus Mundus Scholarship

CC Named a 2019-20 Top Producer of Fulbrights News

CC Named a 2019-20 Top Producer of Fulbrights

Congratulations to CC’s 10 Fulbright Semifinalists! News

Congratulations to CC’s 10 Fulbright Semifinalists!

2019

Naomi Tsai ’19 Receives AIF Clinton Fellowship to India Biology

Naomi Tsai ’19 Receives AIF Clinton Fellowship to India

Matt Nadel ’15 Earns NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship News

Matt Nadel ’15 Earns NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship

Paulina Ukrainets ’19 Receives Princeton in Asia Fellowship English

Paulina Ukrainets ’19 Receives Princeton in Asia Fellowship

Caleigh Cassidy ’18 Has Senior Thesis Published Psychology

Caleigh Cassidy ’18 Has Senior Thesis Published

Amanda Martin ’19 Awarded Research Fulbright to South Africa Organismal Biology & Ecology

Amanda Martin ’19 Awarded Research Fulbright to South Africa

Jeronimo Miranda Castro ’18 Receives Erasmus Mundus Scholarship Chemistry & Biochemistry

Jeronimo Miranda Castro ’18 Receives Erasmus Mundus Scholarship

Claire Derry ’19 Receives Fulbright ETA to Moldova News

Claire Derry ’19 Receives Fulbright ETA to Moldova

Beka Adair ’16 Receives Research Fulbright to Kyrgyz Republic News

Beka Adair ’16 Receives Research Fulbright to Kyrgyz Republic

Harrison Raine ’19 Named Watson Fellow Organismal Biology & Ecology

Harrison Raine ’19 Named Watson Fellow

Lindsey Aronson ’19 Receives Fulbright ETA to Spain English

Lindsey Aronson ’19 Receives Fulbright ETA to Spain

Ines Siepmann ’19 Receives Erasmus Mundus Scholarship Chemistry & Biochemistry

Ines Siepmann ’19 Receives Erasmus Mundus Scholarship

Megan Bott ’20, Jessica Ramos ’20 Win Projects for Peace Award Interdisciplinary

Megan Bott ’20, Jessica Ramos ’20 Win Projects for Peace Award

Isaak Belongia ’21 Wins Critical Language Scholarship to Study Turkish Music

Isaak Belongia ’21 Wins Critical Language Scholarship to Study Turkish

Camilla Fuller ’19 Receives Fulbright ETA to Thailand Interdisciplinary

Camilla Fuller ’19 Receives Fulbright ETA to Thailand

Elam Boockvar-Klein ’20 Named Newman Civic Fellow Sociology

Elam Boockvar-Klein ’20 Named Newman Civic Fellow

Rishi Ling ’18 Receives Princeton in Asia Fellowship Music

Rishi Ling ’18 Receives Princeton in Asia Fellowship

Keenan Amer ’19 Wins NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship Organismal Biology & Ecology

Keenan Amer ’19 Wins NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship

Grace Hale ’20 Takes First Place in Music Competition Music

Grace Hale ’20 Takes First Place in Music Competition

Jia Mei ’21 Awarded Gilman Scholarship Molecular Biology

Jia Mei ’21 Awarded Gilman Scholarship

Congratulations to CC’s Record 12 Fulbright Semifinalists News

Congratulations to CC’s Record 12 Fulbright Semifinalists

2018

Vanessa Voller ’16 Receives Fellowship for Project in Bolivia Interdisciplinary

Vanessa Voller ’16 Receives Fellowship for Project in Bolivia

Kat Gentry ’19 Takes First Place for Psychoanalytic Paper News

Kat Gentry ’19 Takes First Place for Psychoanalytic Paper

David Andrews ’18 Receives Fulbright to Brazil English

David Andrews ’18 Receives Fulbright to Brazil

Clare Holtzman ’17 Named Princeton in Africa Fellow English

Clare Holtzman ’17 Named Princeton in Africa Fellow

Rachel Hyppolite '18 Receives Princeton in Asia Fellowship Neuroscience

Rachel Hyppolite '18 Receives Princeton in Asia Fellowship

Evyn Papworth ’18, Mitra Ghaffari ’17 Win Davis Projects for Peace Award News

Evyn Papworth ’18, Mitra Ghaffari ’17 Win Davis Projects for Peace Award

Second Team Takes Honorable Mention in International Math Contest Mathematics & Computer Science

Second Team Takes Honorable Mention in International Math Contest

Six from Colorado College Named as JET Recipients News

Six from Colorado College Named as JET Recipients

Team Takes Honorable Mention in International Math Contest Mathematics & Computer Science

Team Takes Honorable Mention in International Math Contest

Two MAT Students Recognized as Top Teacher Candidates Education

Two MAT Students Recognized as Top Teacher Candidates

Edith Lee ’18 Named a Breakout 8 Winner English

Edith Lee ’18 Named a Breakout 8 Winner

Soren Frykholm ’16 Receives Fulbright ETA to Brazil Romance Languages

Soren Frykholm ’16 Receives Fulbright ETA to Brazil

Lydia Ballantine ’17 Takes First in Sociology Competition Sociology

Lydia Ballantine ’17 Takes First in Sociology Competition

Veronica Fernandez-Diaz ’19 Named Newman Civic Fellow Sociology

Veronica Fernandez-Diaz ’19 Named Newman Civic Fellow

Jared Russell '18 Receives Special Fulbright from Australia Interdisciplinary

Jared Russell '18 Receives Special Fulbright from Australia

Amanda Cahn ’17 Receives Fulbright ETA to Indonesia News

Amanda Cahn ’17 Receives Fulbright ETA to Indonesia

Sierra Melton ’18 Receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Geology

Sierra Melton ’18 Receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Ashley Merscher ’08 Receives Fulbright ETA to Slovakia Political Science

Ashley Merscher ’08 Receives Fulbright ETA to Slovakia

Qiu Chang Wu ’18 Named NSF Graduate Research Fellow Biology

Qiu Chang Wu ’18 Named NSF Graduate Research Fellow

Theo Hooker ’18 Named Watson Fellow News

Theo Hooker ’18 Named Watson Fellow

Jake Brownell ’12 Wins CBA Award of Excellence News

Jake Brownell ’12 Wins CBA Award of Excellence

3 Seniors to Present Wildfire Modeling Poster at Conference Mathematics & Computer Science

3 Seniors to Present Wildfire Modeling Poster at Conference

CC Has a Record Seven Fulbright Semifinalists News

CC Has a Record Seven Fulbright Semifinalists

CC Takes Gold Medal at International Physics Competition Physics

CC Takes Gold Medal at International Physics Competition

Anna Wermuth ’19 Receives Gilman Scholarship Organismal Biology & Ecology

Anna Wermuth ’19 Receives Gilman Scholarship

2017

Soren Frykholm ’16 Named SCAC Man of the Year Romance Languages

Soren Frykholm ’16 Named SCAC Man of the Year

Katlyn Frey ’17 Receives Critical Language Scholarship to China Psychology

Katlyn Frey ’17 Receives Critical Language Scholarship to China

NCAA Honors Soren Frykholm ’16 With Jim McKay Scholarship Romance Languages

NCAA Honors Soren Frykholm ’16 With Jim McKay Scholarship

Seniors Eva McKinsey, Lucy Marshall Named Projects for Peace Winners Interdisciplinary

Seniors Eva McKinsey, Lucy Marshall Named Projects for Peace Winners

Rebecca Glazer ’18 Receives Udall Scholarship Honorable Mention Interdisciplinary

Rebecca Glazer ’18 Receives Udall Scholarship Honorable Mention

Two MAT Students Named to Educator Honor Roll Education

Two MAT Students Named to Educator Honor Roll

Oliver Ward ’17 Selected for JET Program Political Science

Oliver Ward ’17 Selected for JET Program

Miles Cooper ’17 Receives Princeton in Asia Fellowship Molecular Biology

Miles Cooper ’17 Receives Princeton in Asia Fellowship

Jessica Badgeley ’15 Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Geology

Jessica Badgeley ’15 Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Teddy Corwin ’17 Receives Fulbright ETA to Germany Mathematics & Computer Science

Teddy Corwin ’17 Receives Fulbright ETA to Germany

Sociology grads take 1st and 2nd Place in National Competition Sociology

Sociology grads take 1st and 2nd Place in National Competition

Andrew Scherffius ’17 Selected to JET Program Philosophy

Andrew Scherffius ’17 Selected to JET Program

Jared Russell ’18 Named Humanity in Action Fellow Interdisciplinary

Jared Russell ’18 Named Humanity in Action Fellow

James Terhune ’15 Receives Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship Sociology

James Terhune ’15 Receives Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship

Melissa Jay ’16 Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Mathematics & Computer Science

Melissa Jay ’16 Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Entrepreneurial Team Accepted to Clinton Global Initiative News

Entrepreneurial Team Accepted to Clinton Global Initiative

Avukile Zoya ’17 Named Princeton in Africa Fellow Biology

Avukile Zoya ’17 Named Princeton in Africa Fellow

Emily Anding ’12 Selected for International Ethics Program Environmental Program

Emily Anding ’12 Selected for International Ethics Program

Jacob Kirksey ’15 Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Education

Jacob Kirksey ’15 Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Sierra Melton ’18 Named Goldwater Scholar Interdisciplinary

Sierra Melton ’18 Named Goldwater Scholar

Kaitlyn Martinez ’15 Receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Mathematics & Computer Science

Kaitlyn Martinez ’15 Receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Dana Cronin ’17 Wins Mark of Excellence Award News

Dana Cronin ’17 Wins Mark of Excellence Award

Mayss Al Alami ’17 Named Gaither Junior Fellow News

Mayss Al Alami ’17 Named Gaither Junior Fellow

Sidharth Tripathi ’17 Named Fulbright, Erasmus Mundus Winner Organismal Biology & Ecology

Sidharth Tripathi ’17 Named Fulbright, Erasmus Mundus Winner

Soren Frykholm ’16 Earns NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship Romance Languages

Soren Frykholm ’16 Earns NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship

CC Has Five Fulbright Semifinalists – Possibly a Record News

CC Has Five Fulbright Semifinalists – Possibly a Record

2016

Ingrid Wilt ’17 Nets 'Outstanding Presentation' Award at GCURS Chemistry & Biochemistry

Ingrid Wilt ’17 Nets 'Outstanding Presentation' Award at GCURS

Abbie Moore ’18 Receives Gilman Scholarship to Study in Budapest Mathematics & Computer Science

Abbie Moore ’18 Receives Gilman Scholarship to Study in Budapest

Elliot Mamet ’15 Receives Phi Beta Kappa Graduate Scholarship Political Science

Elliot Mamet ’15 Receives Phi Beta Kappa Graduate Scholarship

MAT Student Mike Pritts Named Tillman Scholar Education

MAT Student Mike Pritts Named Tillman Scholar

3 Students Win Davis Project for Peace Award Interdisciplinary

3 Students Win Davis Project for Peace Award

Sierra Melton ’18 Receives Udall Scholarship Honorable Mention Geology

Sierra Melton ’18 Receives Udall Scholarship Honorable Mention

3 Biology Majors Net NSF Graduate Research Fellowships Biology

3 Biology Majors Net NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

3 Students Receive ACM-CIC Mellon Fellowships Interdisciplinary

3 Students Receive ACM-CIC Mellon Fellowships

Eyner Roman-Lopez ’19 Named Future Global Leader Interdisciplinary

Eyner Roman-Lopez ’19 Named Future Global Leader

Madeline Walden ’18 Presents Research at Conference Chemistry & Biochemistry

Madeline Walden ’18 Presents Research at Conference

CC Team in Top 8 Percent in International Math Contest Interdisciplinary

CC Team in Top 8 Percent in International Math Contest

Andrew Post ’16 Named Humanity in Action Fellow Political Science

Andrew Post ’16 Named Humanity in Action Fellow

Alina Drufovka ’16 Places Second in Sociology Paper Competition Sociology

Alina Drufovka ’16 Places Second in Sociology Paper Competition

3 Seniors Selected for JET Program Interdisciplinary

3 Seniors Selected for JET Program

Matthew Liston ’13 Named Fulbright Teaching Assistant Interdisciplinary

Matthew Liston ’13 Named Fulbright Teaching Assistant

Two CC Students Receive Goldwater Scholarship Honorable Mentions Interdisciplinary

Two CC Students Receive Goldwater Scholarship Honorable Mentions

Lauren Schmidt ’16 Named Princeton in Africa Fellow Political Science

Lauren Schmidt ’16 Named Princeton in Africa Fellow

Max Grossenbacher ’16 Receives NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship Interdisciplinary

Max Grossenbacher ’16 Receives NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship

2015

Mitchell Leong ’17 Earns Gilman Scholarship to China Asian Studies

Mitchell Leong ’17 Earns Gilman Scholarship to China

Padah Vang ’19 Wins I’m First Scholarship News

Padah Vang ’19 Wins I’m First Scholarship

Rayna Ben-Zeev ’15 Wins Fulbright to Singapore Interdisciplinary

Rayna Ben-Zeev ’15 Wins Fulbright to Singapore

Elliot Mamet ’15 Named Humanity in Action Fellow Political Science

Elliot Mamet ’15 Named Humanity in Action Fellow

Lindsey Pointer ’13 Wins Fulbright to Study in New Zealand Religion

Lindsey Pointer ’13 Wins Fulbright to Study in New Zealand

Team Takes Top Honors in Math Contest Mathematics & Computer Science

Team Takes Top Honors in Math Contest

Jacob Kirksey ’15 Selected as All-American in Forensics Education

Jacob Kirksey ’15 Selected as All-American in Forensics

William See ’15 Wins Psychoanalysis Award Interdisciplinary

William See ’15 Wins Psychoanalysis Award

Annaliese Schroeder ’15 Receives Fulbright Scholarship News

Annaliese Schroeder ’15 Receives Fulbright Scholarship

Juniors Brooke Davis, Melissa Jay Named Goldwater Scholars Mathematics & Computer Science

Juniors Brooke Davis, Melissa Jay Named Goldwater Scholars

Two CC Students Named Watson Fellows Interdisciplinary

Two CC Students Named Watson Fellows

2014

Nawar Sattar ’15 Receives Projects for Peace Award Political Science

Nawar Sattar ’15 Receives Projects for Peace Award

Gautam Webb '15 Receives Goldwater Honorable Mention Mathematics & Computer Science

Gautam Webb '15 Receives Goldwater Honorable Mention

Esther Chan ’16 Awarded Cultural Vistas Fellowship News

Esther Chan ’16 Awarded Cultural Vistas Fellowship

Alexander Langstaff ’14 Receives Fulbright Award History

Alexander Langstaff ’14 Receives Fulbright Award

Jessica Badgeley ’15, Gautam Webb ’15 Recognized as Goldwater Scholars Geology

Jessica Badgeley ’15, Gautam Webb ’15 Recognized as Goldwater Scholars

Caroline Beaton ’13 Wins Psychoanalysis Award Interdisciplinary

Caroline Beaton ’13 Wins Psychoanalysis Award

Benjamin Munyao ’14 Wins Watson Fellowship News

Benjamin Munyao ’14 Wins Watson Fellowship

Senior Selected for Carnegie Fellows Program Interdisciplinary

Senior Selected for Carnegie Fellows Program

2013

Anais Gude ’10 Heads to Slovakia Interdisciplinary

Anais Gude ’10 Heads to Slovakia

CC Graduate Leah Chibwe ’11 receives award to study soil toxicity Chemistry & Biochemistry

CC Graduate Leah Chibwe ’11 receives award to study soil toxicity

Kati Goldstein ’13 Wins Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Graduate Arts Award English

Kati Goldstein ’13 Wins Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Graduate Arts Award

Jacob (Jake) Morgan ’08 Wins National Science Foundation Fellowship Neuroscience

Jacob (Jake) Morgan ’08 Wins National Science Foundation Fellowship

Rachel Wheat ’09 Awarded National Science Foundation Fellowship Biology

Rachel Wheat ’09 Awarded National Science Foundation Fellowship

Keith Fritschie ’11 Wins National Science Foundation Fellowship Environmental Program

Keith Fritschie ’11 Wins National Science Foundation Fellowship

Angela Cobian ’11 Becomes Third CC Fulbright Winner Political Science

Angela Cobian ’11 Becomes Third CC Fulbright Winner

Stuart Hackley ’11 Becomes Second CC Fulbright Winner This Year History

Stuart Hackley ’11 Becomes Second CC Fulbright Winner This Year

Senior Thesis by Maddie Frost ’12 Takes First Place Sociology

Senior Thesis by Maddie Frost ’12 Takes First Place

Blaine Carper ’13 Wins Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship Sociology

Blaine Carper ’13 Wins Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship

CC Students Win Prestigious Math Prize Mathematics & Computer Science

CC Students Win Prestigious Math Prize

Kaleb Roush ’14 Receives Goldwater Scholarship Chemistry & Biochemistry

Kaleb Roush ’14 Receives Goldwater Scholarship

Siri Undlin '13 Wins Watson Fellowship English

Siri Undlin '13 Wins Watson Fellowship

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