MIS Undergraduate Scholarship and Award Recipients
Awards
Congratulations to the MIS Outstanding Seniors
The University of Arizona Foundation’s Outstanding Senior Awards program was established in 1971 to recognize the outstanding performances of the University's best seniors.
Every fall and spring semester, the academic departments within the Eller College nominate one graduating senior from their major for this award.
The Arizona Foundation Outstanding Senior for the Eller College is selected by a committee who interviews the individual department nominees. Final selection is made by weighing the candidates’ academic and extra-curricular achievements.
Congratulations to the following who have represented the MIS department over the years.
MIS Department Outstanding Senior | Year Nominated |
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Adam Vella | Fall 2021 |
Margaret Krenke |
Spring 2021 |
Daniel Barney | Fall 2020 |
Jayasangeetha Thanikachalam | Spring 2020 |
Madison Stidham | Fall 2019 |
Andras Szep | Spring 2019 |
Courtney Ong | Fall 2018 |
Emma Wood | Spring 2018 |
Ben Ampel | Fall 2017 |
Hannah Lynn Barry | Spring 2017 |
Rebecca L. Paul** | Fall 2016 |
Mounica Urity | Spring 2016 |
Jieun Huh | Fall 2015 |
Adam Eugene Crompton | Spring 2015 |
Allison Gray Merdinger | Fall 2014 |
Victoria Rose DeHaven | Spring 2014 |
Lauren Wynn | Fall 2013 |
Nidhi Arora | Spring 2013 |
Kyle Olsen | Fall 2012 |
Ryan FitzPatrick | Spring 2012 |
Jennifer A. Dicochea | Fall 2011 |
Joseph Altamirano | Spring 2011 |
Ryan Kolfer | Fall 2010 |
Richard Catlin | Spring 2010 |
Jason Tranel | Fall 2009 |
William J. Wycoff III | Spring 2009 |
Juinn Chang | Fall 2008 |
Brian Chase | Spring 2008 |
Kara Lawhorn** | Fall 2007 |
Laura Reid | Spring 2007 |
William Lippert | Fall 2006 |
Shirley Chai** | Spring 2006 |
Haamed Alfulaij | Fall 2005 |
Krstina Hoock | Spring 2005 |
Aaron Harris | Fall 2004 |
Theodore Stark | Spring 2004 |
Benjamin Gross | Fall 2003 |
Andrea Winkle | Spring 2003 |
Raymond White (MIS) | Spring 2002 |
Jennifer Olding (OPER) | Spring 2002 |
Noah Knauf (MIS)** | Spring 2001 |
Kapil Chibber (OPER) | Spring 2001 |
** indicates MIS/OM students who won the The Arizona Foundation Outstanding Senior for the Eller College.
The Ellerman Scholars were established in 2012 in honor of Mr. Brian Ellerman, an MIS alumnus and strong supporter of the MIS Department. The awards were established in recognition of his leadership, service and academic interests in the department.
Ellerman Award for Leadership and Service
Awarded to graduating seniors in MIS and OSCM that have made significant contributions to the MIS Department through their work in MIS/OM student organizations and departmental programs.
Ellerman Award for Academic Achievement
Awarded to graduating seniors in MIS and OM that have demonstrated academic excellence in their MIS studies.
fall 2021 | |
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Ellerman Award for Leadership and Service | Ellerman Award for Academic Achievement |
Allison Miracle | Ria Banerjee |
Karl Futscher |
Spring 2021 | |
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Ellerman Award for Leadership and Service | Ellerman Award for Academic Achievement |
Christopher Brown |
Katherine David |
Heather Kirkland |
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Kelsey McClellan | |
Ryan Solaire |
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Hallie Srebnick | |
Petr Tilstrom |
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Trevor Volpe | |
Wyatt Weisel |
fall 2020 | |
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Ellerman Award for Leadership and Service | Ellerman Award for Academic Achievement |
Donna Doss | Ingrid Heim |
Patrick Lang | |
Isabella Stoesser | |
Lars Severson | |
Keegan Wick | |
Qilun Hang |
spring 2020 | |
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Ellerman Award for Leadership and Service | Ellerman Award for Academic Achievement |
Camden Lowe | John Curley |
Samuel Feroze | |
Talia Hintermeister | |
Ryan Johnson | |
Jessica Miller | |
Jessica Wherty |
FALL 2019 | |
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Ellerman Award for Leadership and Service | Ellerman Award for Academic Achievement |
Brain Leatherman | Morcos Boutros |
Wonseok Kang |
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Sang Ho Kim | |
Ryan McCurry | |
Ryan Rouhani | |
Paul Schneider |
Spring 2019 | |
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Ellerman Award for Leadership and Service | Ellerman Award for Academic Achievement |
Fall 2018 | |
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Ellerman Award for Leadership and Service | Ellerman Award for Academic Achievement |
Alessandra Laguit | Jiatong Chen |
Jinshan Chen | |
Signe Grant | |
Xiaoyu Lei | |
Danielle Orozco | |
Spring 2018 | |
Ellerman Award for Leadership and Service | Ellerman Award for Academic Achievement |
Alexandra Wibowo | Steven Blend |
Peyton Carney | |
Amna Mahzar | |
Kevin Nguyen | |
Fall 2017 | |
Ellerman Scholarship for Leadership and Service | Ellerman Scholarship for Academic Achievement |
Caitlin McHugh | Yi Chen |
Tyler Downey | |
Matthew Labarre | |
Kathryn Lindsey | |
Takeshi Miyauchi | |
Jacqueline Mwangi | |
Spring 2017 | |
Ellerman Scholarship for Leadership and Service | Ellerman Scholarship for Academic Achievement |
Sarah Harris | Courtney Buchanan |
Kory Chinn | |
Sean Furrier | |
Dorothy Fleur-De-Lis Likas | |
Henry Roden | |
Fall 2016 | |
Ellerman Scholarship for Leadership and Service | Ellerman Scholarship for Academic Achievement |
Ivan Mendez Gonzalez | Rebecca Lynn Paul |
Siying Tao | |
Kunbo Zhao | |
Spring 2016 | |
Ellerman Scholarship for Leadership and Service | Ellerman Scholarship for Academic Achievement |
Nathan Schupp | Manford Jong |
Thao Vo | Lynn Konrad |
Caroline Roseri | |
William Yee | |
Fall 2015 | |
Ellerman Scholarship for Leadership and Service | Ellerman Scholarship for Academic Achievement |
William Johnson | Phyllis Cao |
Kirsten Smith | Yong Xiang |
Spring 2015 | |
Ellerman Scholarship for Leadership and Service | Ellerman Scholarship for Academic Achievement |
Minwoo Park | Vincent John Ercolani |
Yang He | |
Fall 2014 | |
Ellerman Scholarship for Leadership and Service | Ellerman Scholarship for Academic Achievement |
Jie Feng | Kehua Guo |
Elizabeth Mumma | |
Spring 2014 | |
Ellerman Scholarship for Leadership and Service | Ellerman Scholarship for Academic Achievement |
Kyle LeMontang | Jenna Louise Botticelli |
Colton Cray | |
Haily De La Cruz | |
Ryan Bradley Jicha |
Fall 2013 | |
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Ellerman Scholarship for Leadership and Service | Ellerman Scholarship for Academic Achievement |
None | Matthew Kron |
Alexander Peckron | |
Megan Sentianin |
Spring 2013 | |
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Ellerman Scholarship for Leadership and Service | Ellerman Scholarship for Academic Achievement |
Scott William Buscemi | Megan Boscarillo |
Christopher Johnson | |
Timothy Olinski | |
Samantha Tolmachoff | |
Mo Zhou |
Fall 2012 | |
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Ellerman Scholarship for Leadership and Service | Ellerman Scholarship for Academic Achievement |
Danelle Dobbins | Ali Alenizi |
Zhao Hu | |
Kwan Lui | |
Michael Petrilak | |
Scholarships
Generous Supporters Helping Students to Succeed
It is with pride and gratefulness that we are able to provide the following scholarships to our students. We thank each and every sponsor below for their generous contributions to help us help our students Shape the Future of IT.
As an undergraduate Eller MIS student, Joelle Benson was given the opportunity to put into practice the cutting-edge information systems theories she learned in the classroom by working with Regents’ Professor Jay Nunamaker in his Center for the Management of Information (CMI) lab.
Within the CMI lab, Joelle helped conduct research on technology and processes that allow groups to move toward new levels of efficiency and productivity. “The MIS department gave me a solid educational foundation, and challenged me to constantly strive to achieve and succeed post-college.”
Now the Director Sales Strategy, Americas for DellEMC Global Compute & Client Solutions, Joelle is giving back and providing the same type of opportunities she received to current MIS undergraduates.
Joelle’s scholarship, which is partially funded with Dell’s corporate matching program, provides MIS undergraduates the opportunity to participate in hands-on research projects involving analytics in health care during their fall and spring semesters. Selected students will be eligible to receive $1,250 per semester. The scholarship was established 2017.
Information for Applicants
This scholarship provides funding for undergraduate students to pursue research work within the MIS department. Priority is given to research work involving Big Data Analytics: the process of collecting, organizing and analyzing a variety of datasets to discover patterns and useful information. Examples in the health care field include individualized/personalized medicine, genomics, health care data from the web and social media and data gathered by sensors and wearable devices.
Scholarship Benefits
- $1,250 for the spring 2019 semester
- Work with the INSITE: Center for Business Intelligence and Analytics. Receive hands-on experience in research projects involving analytics in health care
- Receive mentoring from Joelle Benson
Eligibility Requirements
- Enrolled as a full-time undergraduate student
- Admitted into the Eller College Professional Program (eligible to enroll in upper-division courses)
- Majoring in Management Information Systems
- Cumulative GPA of 3.0 or greater
Preference is given to students who meet the following criteria:
- Enrolled in the Honors College
- Demonstrate an interest in Big Data Analytics in health care
Congratulations to the following awardees:
FALL 2020 | ||||
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Donna Doss | Rebecca Ryan | Shelbie Deatrick | Danna Hernandez | Mirelle Joevin |
Libby Merchant | Janice Vuong |
SPRING 2020 | ||||
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Aaron Massis | Maria Lacau |
FALL 2019 | ||||
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Aaron Massis |
2017 | ||||
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Sreya Chagarlamudi |
The Joseph and Mary Cacioppo Scholarship was established to recognize Juniors who excel in MIS and who show promise for success in the business world.
Congratulations to the following awardees:
FALL 2021 | ||||
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Linnea Andersson | Cichen Liu | Reza Sanayei |
FALL 2020 | ||||
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Michael McCarthy | Mya White |
SPRING 2020 | ||||
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Luis Martinez | Canuto Sanchez | Nicole Svatek |
FALL 2019 | ||||
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Luis Martinez | Canuto Sanchez | Nicole Svatek |
SPRING 2017 | ||||
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Briana Marek | Takeshi Miyauchi |
FALL 2016 | ||||
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Steven John Reichard | Ryan Witt |
SPRING 2015 | ||||
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Jasmine Hui-hsin Cheng | Jenifer Wong |
FALL 2014 | ||||
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Jordan Ngoc Nguyen | Kc James Seitz |
SPRING 2014 | ||||
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David McKibben |
FALL 2013 | ||||
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Monica Wisehart |
SPRING 2013 | ||||
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Haily De La Cruz | Vincent Ercolani |
FALL 2012 | ||||
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Ryan Jicha | Alfred Jimenez |
SPRING 2012 | ||||
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Jay Fielder | Amy Vandemark |
FALL 2011 | ||||
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Michael Burnell | Gabriela Guardiola |
FALL 2010 | ||||
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Marina Mora |
FALL 2009 | ||||
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Bryce Good | Ryan Kolofer |
The Konana Scholarship is for full-time undergraduate students at Eller who are majoring in MIS, have at least a 2.0 cumulative GPA and demonstrate financial need.
FALL 2021 | ||||
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Jared Moon |
FALL 2020 | ||||
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Jared Moon |
FALL 2019 | ||||
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Craig Doughty |
The Konur Family Scholarship began in 2007 and is given to MIS students who are in their second, third or fourth year of their program. Awards are made to outstanding students based on their merit and promise of success.
Congratulations to the following awardees:
FALL 2021 | ||||
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Jasmine Wong |
FALL 2020 | ||||
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Desiree Capuano |
SPRING 2020 | ||||
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Thomas Garcia | Tyler Nazifi |
FALL 2019 | ||||
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Sarah Jassim | Brandon Parker |
SPRING 2017 | ||||
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Matthew Gauthier |
FALL 2016 | ||||
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Alejandra Nunez Garcia |
SPRING 2016 | ||||
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Jennifer Monroe |
FALL 2015 | ||||
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Tyler Williams |
SPRING 2015 | ||||
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Mounica Urity |
SPRING 2014 | ||||
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Demar Ricardo Stewart |
SPRING 2013 | ||||
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Nidhi Arora |
FALL 2012 | ||||
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Kyle Olsen |
SPRING 2012 | ||||
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Tingting He |
FALL 2011 | ||||
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Jennifer Dicochea | Wendelin Willis |
FALL 2010 | ||||
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Wendelin Willis |
FALL 2009 | ||||
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Wendelin Willis |
FALL 2008 | ||||
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Joshua Mickler |
Established in 2010, theLaSalle-Chen Scholarship is available to students with advanced standing in MIS or Operations Management. The scholarship’s goal is to encourage and support students with significant academic promise that have overcome personal challenges to obtain advanced standing in MIS. The scholarship’s focus is one of encouragement and allowing students to fulfill their promise, and therefore is open to all students who obtain advanced standing in MIS regardless of their current GPA.
The scholarship is an annual award of $1000, and is renewable as long as the student continues to make progress towards their degree and remains in good academic standing. There will be a total of 5 scholarships awarded per year.
The LaSalle-Chen Scholarship was established in honor of two MIS professors. Dr. Jim LaSalle is Professor Emeritus of the MIS Department at the University of Arizona, having served the MIS department and the University for more than 30 years as a master teacher. Dr. Hsinchun Chen is McClelland Professor of MIS at the University of Arizona. He has served the MIS department and The University for 30 years and has been a prolific researcher.
Congratulations to the following students who were awarded the LaSalle-Chen Scholarship!
FALL 2021 |
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Anthony Gallegos |
Norma Gutierrez |
Georgina Owusu-Bio |
SPRING 2020 | |
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Desiree Capuano | Annika Etheredge Defago |
FALL 2019 |
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Brandon Parker |
Craig Doughty |
Sarah Jassim |
SPRING 2018 |
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Daniel Dickson |
Juan Pablo Penaloza |
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FALL 2017 |
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Tristan Giles |
Courtney Ong |
Jorge Alberto Dominguez |
SPRING 2017 |
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Alan Escalante |
Jacob Boubion |
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FALL 2016 |
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Alexandra K. Gomez |
Jacob D. Lassiter |
Marc P. Duggan |
SPRING 2016 |
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Ebitie Amughan |
Guadalupe Angeles |
Jonathan Korth |
Brek Thompson |
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FALL 2015 |
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Matthew Leeper |
Steven Cabrera |
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SPRING 2015 |
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Ebitie Thomasina Amughan |
Jonathan Michael Korth |
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FALL 2014 |
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Calvin Barreras |
Adrian Ulises Gonzalez |
Ygochukwu Ume |
SPRING 2014 |
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Stephen Michael Dolan |
Vincent John Ercolani |
Tyson Keith |
FALL 2013 |
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Huy Quoc Nguyen |
Demar Stewart |
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SPRING 2013 |
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John Grisham |
Jennifer Sinclair |
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FALL 2012 |
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Isaac Ranular Taverns |
Vinh Truong |
Mo Zhou |
FALL 2011 |
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Timothy R. Lujan |
Louise McDermott |
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FALL 2010 |
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Caryn Conde |
Lavanya Harish |
Jamie Meadows |
William and Florence Schmidt believed in the importance of making available to youth the opportunity to secure a good educational foundation on which to build a better future.
The William and Florence Schmidt scholarships are awarded each year to MIS students who are making satisfactory progress toward their degree.
Congratulations to the following current and past awardees.
SPRING 2022 | ||||
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Nour Abdelhalim | Linnea Andersson | Jitendra Baid | Veronica Borboa | Jesus Corimaya |
Briana Cuteri | Sydney Huxtable | Aaron Massis | Meagan Nichols | Georgina Owusu-Bio |
Ishan Shah | Austin Victors | Katherine Wu |
FALL 2021 | ||||
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Maxwell Baruch | Justice Craig | Tam Duong | Kyrah Hughley | Lydia Mitchell |
Griffin Rettig | Joseph Ross | Jeffrey Wright | Ming Zeng |
FALL 2020 | ||||
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Daniel Barney | Donna Doss | Ingrid Heim | Patrick Lang | Isabella Stoesser |
Lars Severson | Keegan Wick | Qilun Hang | Tam Duong | Jasmine Wong |
Ahana Singh | Elizabeth Covely | Heather Kirkland |
SPRING 2020 | ||||
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Jaya Thanikachalam | Camden Lowe | Jessica Wherty | Ryan Johnson | John Curley |
Samuel Feroze | Jessica Miller | Talia Hintermeister | Denisse Farias | Cameron Gillette |
Heather Kirkland | Nicole Svatek |
FALL 2019 | ||||
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Madison Stidham | Brian Leatherman | Paul Schneider | Wonseok Kang | Sang Ho Kim |
Ryan McCurry | Morcus Boutros | Ryan Rouhani | Jaya Thanikachalam | Cameron Gillette |
Isabella Gauvreau | Nicole Svatek | Denisse Farias | Heather Kirkland |
SPRING 2017 | ||||
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Hannah Barry | Courtney Buchanan | Kory Chin | Sean Furrier | Matthew Gauthier |
Holden Gerber | Sarah Harris | Hilla Hascalovici | Colin Holetz | Kyle Larson |
Tiffany Le | Natalia Lenkiewicz | Dorothy Likas | Danielle Orozco | Jay Patel |
Shivani Patel | Steven Reichard | Henry Roden | Leila Shevins | Alexandra Wibowo |
Luc Zbonack | ||||
FALL 2016 | ||||
Alexandra Wibowo | Colin Holez | Danielle Orozco | Ivan Gonzalez | Kyle Larson |
Natalia Lenkiewicz |
Tiffany Le |
Rebecca Paul | Sarah Harris | |
SPRING 2016 | ||||
Tyler Antosh | Alyssa Bowles | Nicholas DeJaco | Sarah Harris | Natalie Hayashi |
Colin Holetz | Manfred Jong | Lynn Konrad | Natalia Lenkiewicz | Zachary Long |
Jordan Nguyen | Lakismi Punati | Caroliine Roseri | Nathan Schupp | Mounica Urity |
Thao Vo | William Yee | |||
FALL 2015 | ||||
Chen Jiang | Grant Suman | Jacob Gorin | Jamie Storey | Jieun Huh |
Joshua Knapp | Kirsten Smith | Lakshmi Punati | Laura Le | Liran Zhang |
Marlano Batson | Michael Brown | Natalia Lenkiewicz | Natalie Hayashi | Phyllis Cao |
Sarah Harris | Sergio Mada | Szeyuen Chan | William Johnson | Yong Xiang |
SPRING 2015 | ||||
Sydney Beke | Elisabeth Bollum | Adam Crompton | Vincent Ercolani | Yang He |
Bader Ja'afar | William Johnson | David McKibben | Daniella Miller | Leah Rothschild |
Leila Shevins | Elizabeth Simmons | |||
FALL 2014 | ||||
Sydney Beke | Alec Erceg | Jie Feng | Kehua Guo | Nicole Hatcher |
Jieun Huh | Jeffery Innes | Bader Ja'afar | William Johnson III | Allison Merdinger |
Elizabeth Mumma | Leah Rothschild | Leila Shevins | ||
SPRING 2014 | ||||
Andrew Alvarez | Jenna Louise Botticelli | Colton Cray | Adam Crompton | Haily De La Cruz |
Victoria Rose DeHaven | Arthur Jicha | Ryan Jicha | Kyle LeMontang | Alison Raynak |
Robert Roberto | Jenifer Wong | |||
FALL 2013 | ||||
Jenna Botticelli | Colton Cray | Haily De La Cruz | Victoria DeHaven | Amy Doherty |
Stephen Dolan | Vincent Ercolani | Arthur Jicha | Ryan Jicha | Tyson Keith |
Kyle LeMontang | Elizabeth Mumma | Robert Roberto | Lauren Wynn | |
SPRING 2013 | ||||
Imoette Akpan | Megan Boscarillo | Scott Buscemi | Christina Choe | Victoria DeHaven |
Christopher Johnson | Kyle LeMontang | Timothy Olinski | Hua-ching Wang | Wesley Warshawer |
Xiong Xiao | Mo Zhou | |||
FALL 2012 | ||||
Imoette Akpan | Zhao Hu | Megan Boscarillo | Scott Buscemi | Christina Choe |
Victoria DeHaven | Kyle LeMontang | Rose Rice | Amy Vandermark | Hua-ching Wang |
Wesley Warshawer | Xiong Xiao | |||
SPRING 2012 | ||||
Jessica Foster | Ethan Fry | Britt Haugland | Kyle LeMontang | Kyle Olsen |
Jeff Ramos | Rose Rice | Sara Robinson | Sharon Roderick | David Ware |
FALL 2011 | ||||
Kristine Almond | Victor Benjamin | Tyson Bickford | Justice Bordner | James Carpenter |
Jennifer Dicochea | Ryan FitzPatrick | Ethan Fry | Leslie Goodrich | Britt Haugland |
Tingting He | Pao-Lai Hong | Samantha Meis | Ryan Miller | Chung Whan Park |
Sara Robinson | Paul Soto | David Ware | Wendelin Willis | |
FALL 2010 | ||||
Victor Benjamin | Richard Catlin | Brandon Ealick | Bryce Good | Teresa Le |
Ryan Miller | Marco Monreal | Jason Tranel | David Ware | David Wohlleban |
FALL 2009 | ||||
Richard Burrows | Benjamin Gray | Clayton Hamilton-Alexander | Joshua Mickler | Clayton Rogers |
Zachary Roughan | Kirsten Smith | Jesus Torres | Jason Tranel | Sandra Vazquez Saldivar |
Tracy Vo | ||||
FALL 2008 | ||||
David Bailey | Austin Bren | Eduard Ciocanescu | Benjamin Gray | Elisabeth Greene |
Clayton Hamilton-Alexander | Luke Huston | Jordan Kennedy | Kara Lawhorn | Nancy Madrid |
John Perry | Angel Quiroz | Terence Rosen | James Sanford | Ross Thomassee |
William Wycoff | ||||
FALL 2007 | ||||
Diana Anderson | Eduard Ciocanescu | Jorge Estrella | Joshua Hottenstein | Seung-jin Kim |
Lauro Molina | Charles Norris | Nayan Patel | Laura Reid | Ross Thomassee |
Ross Williams | Alisher Yuldashev |