2026 Astronaut Scholarship The Astronaut Scholarships are awarded to students in their junior and senior year of college studying science, technology, engineering, or mathematics with the intent to pursue research or advance their field upon completion of their final degree. Jazzie Trotter is a senior pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. She serves as Propulsion…
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2025 Astronaut Scholarship The Astronaut Scholarships are awarded to students in their junior and senior year of college studying science, technology, engineering, or mathematics with the intent to pursue research or advance their field upon completion of their final degree. Alara Berkmen is a junior pursuing a Bachelor of Biomedical Engineering (Molecular-Cellular) and a Masters…
Two students and one alumnus obtain highly competitive scholarships and a Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute fellowship, supporting work in quantitative biology, physics and environmental policy. By Margaret Crable | July 23, 2024
2024 Boren Scholarship Boren Scholarships provide funding for rigorous language study in exchange for a commitment to work in the federal government for at least one year after graduation. Thomas Martynowicz will graduate with a Bachelor of Arts in International Affairs and a minor in Social Sciences. Thomas plans to study Quechua in Peru on the…
2013 Boren Scholarship Recipients Jason Finkelstein is one of 161 students selected out of 947 students for the 2013 National Security Education Program (NSEP) Boren Scholarship. Through the Boren Scholarship, Jason will be studying Russian at the Irkutsk State Linguistic University in the summer and at St. Petersburg State University in the fall.Jason is a sophomore…
2011 Churchill Scholarship Recipients Each year the Winston Churchill Foundation awards fourteen scholarship to American university students, offering them the opportunity to study for one year at the University of Cambridge, with tuition, travel and living expenses paid. Churchill Scholars demonstrate outstanding academic achievement, and the potential to contribute to the advancement of knowledge by…
USC Viterbi School of Engineering senior Craig Western is one of 18 students nationwide selected to participate in the highly competitive Luce Scholars program.
2007 Boren Scholarship Recipients Doreen Grosvirt-DramenEconomics/International Relations MajorThe National Security Education Program seeks to enhance U.S. understanding of foreign cultures, strengthen economic competitiveness, and ensure national security by fully funding students to enter a study abroad program outside of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Western Europe with intent to learn a new language. Doreen will…
2006 Fulbright U.S. Student Program Grant Recipients Alexander AvinaDoctorate of Philosophy in HistoryAlexander Avina, currently a Ph.D student in history, will be traveling to Mexico to study the emergence of social movements during the 1960s, particularly the peasant Partido de los Pobres in the state of Guerrero and the Liga Comunista 23 de Septiembre, founded…
2005 Boren NSEP Scholarship Recipients National Security Education Program (NSEP) seeks to enhance U.S. understanding of foreign cultures, strengthen our economic competitiveness, and ensure our national security by fully funding students to enter a study abroad program outside of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Western Europe with intent to learn a new language. Derek Peters,…