Congratulations to the students who received awards at our Fall 2025 Honors College Citation Ceremony! The awards fell into four main categories that recognize academic excellence, research, service, and leadership.
Family Endowed Scholarships
These family-sponsored scholarships recognize outstanding Honors College students:
- Konikoff-Rudman Family Scholarship: Jayden Clugston (IBH)
- Labonski Family Scholarship: Nia Jolivet (HGLO)
- Morinigo Family Scholarship: Madison Harris (ACES)
- O’Rourke Family Scholarship: Ethan Tran (UH) and Nelson Zheng (UH)
Honors College Research Grant
This grant supports departmental honors thesis research across campus:
- Kenna Costello (GEMS / Biology Honors Program), project: Development of the lateral bundle, a putative stem cell migration guide, during annelid regeneration.
- Alex Emmert (Linguistics Honors Program), project: Modal force acquisition in young English learners.
- William Finch (Biology Honors Program), project: Investigating Early-Life Social Affiliations, Associated Neural Systems and the Effects of Isolation in a Cichlid Fish.
- Xiang Luo (Neuroscience Honors Program), project: Mitochondrial Morphology in Orbitofrontal Cortical Neurons During Incubation of Oxycodone Craving.
- Bhavya Nileshkumar Patel (Aerospace Honors Program), project: Collision Avoidance Maneuvers.
- Savannah Robbins (Psychology Honors Program), project: Best Practices for Responding to Grieving Students: Evaluating a Resource for Faculty.
- Bhargav Srinivasan (GEMS / Entomology Honors Program), project: Analyzing copy number variation in whole genome sequencing data of Helicoverpa zea to find evolutionary mechanisms of pesticide resistance.
- Akemi Takeuchi (Aerospace Honors Program), project: Cosmic-Atmospheric-Terrestrial Identification of Trapped Objects (CATITO)
- Akash Raghu (IBH / Biology Honors Program), project: Exploring the Relationship between Muscle Cell Area on Weight in Rainbow Trout.
David Goff Scholarship
This scholarship honors an Integrated Life Sciences student who demonstrates exceptional achievement, service in life-science-related areas, and a clear commitment to a medical career. This year’s awardee is Amrutha Alibilli, a neuroscience double major with minors in Spanish and data science.
Photo credit: Akash Raghu
Portz Outstanding Honors Student Awards
These awards, created in honor of former General Honors Director Professor John Portz, recognize one exemplary student from each Honors College living–learning program:
- Madeline Anson (ACES)
- Beatriz Moreira Leite (Design Cultures & Creativity)
- Tami Mumuney (Gemstone)
- Carmela DeLlano Hernandez (Honors Global Challenges and Solutions)
- Noora Ghahremani (Honors Humanities)
- Urszula Cieslak (Interdisciplinary Business Honors)
- James Szot (Integrated Life Sciences)
- Laila Wilson (University Honors)
