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

2023

A Banner Year for CC Graduates Receiving National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships Interdisciplinary

A Banner Year for CC Graduates Receiving National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships

Ramirez Earns Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Jordan Chemistry & Biochemistry

Ramirez Earns Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Jordan

Two CC Students Named 2023 Goldwater Scholars Awards

Two CC Students Named 2023 Goldwater Scholars

Al Lo ’22 Earns Princeton in Asia Fellowship Interdisciplinary

Al Lo ’22 Earns Princeton in Asia Fellowship

Student Seed Innovation Grant Winner Explores LGBTQ Communities in Europe English

Student Seed Innovation Grant Winner Explores LGBTQ Communities in Europe

Jasmine Linder ’23 Wins Rare Arts Fulbright Award Art

Jasmine Linder ’23 Wins Rare Arts Fulbright Award

Tamar Crump ’23 Wins Japanese Exchange and Teaching Award Awards

Tamar Crump ’23 Wins Japanese Exchange and Teaching Award

Chloe Brooks-Kistler ’23 Wins Top Denver Press Club Award Journalism

Chloe Brooks-Kistler ’23 Wins Top Denver Press Club Award

Marco Barracchia ’22 Awarded Erasmus Mundus Excellence Scholarship Awards

Marco Barracchia ’22 Awarded Erasmus Mundus Excellence Scholarship

Benjamin Murphy ’25 Wins Newman Civic Fellowship Economics & Business

Benjamin Murphy ’25 Wins Newman Civic Fellowship

Maddi Schink '23 Named Watson Fellow and Fulbright Finalist Interdisciplinary

Maddi Schink '23 Named Watson Fellow and Fulbright Finalist

CooXooEii Black wins Rattle Chapbook Prize English

CooXooEii Black wins Rattle Chapbook Prize

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 Awards

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 Awards

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 CCE

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 Awards

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 Awards

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

2020

Sam Sanson ’20 Wins Denver Press Club Award Awards

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 Awards

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 Collaborative for Community Engagement

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 Awards

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 Alumni

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 Alumni

Claire Derry ’19 Receives Fulbright ETA to Moldova

Beka Adair ’16 Receives Research Fulbright to Kyrgyz Republic Alumni

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 Awards

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 Independently Designed Major

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 Awards

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 Awards

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 91.5 KRCC

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 Awards

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

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