Kalamazoo College’s Maya Sykes ’18 Earns U.S. State Department Critical Language Scholarship

Maya Sykes
Maya Sykes ’18 will study in China during summer 2015 on a U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship.

Kalamazoo College first-year student Maya Sykes ’18 has been awarded a U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) to study Chinese in Beijing, China during summer 2015. Maya, a west-side Chicago native, is one of approximately 550 U.S. undergraduate and graduate students chose to study critical needs languages this summer. CLS participants will spend seven to ten weeks in intensive language institutes this summer in one of 13 countries to study Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bangla, Chinese, Hindi, Korean, Indonesian, Japanese, Persian, Punjabi, Russian, Turkish, or Urdu.

“I am happy and nervous about earning the CLS scholarship,” said Maya, a self-described introvert and “K-pop” fan. “I’m a little nervous about going, but I’m happy I don’t have to look for a job this summer.”

Maya said she has been “interested in Asian culture since middle school. My cousins speak Mandarin Chinese and influenced me to do so. My current plan is to major in East Asian Studies at K and perhaps minor in Chinese and English.”

Outside of the classroom, Maya is active in the Student Activities Committee, a student-led organization that provides a variety of fun and healthy outlets to K students while committee offering members opportunities for campus leadership and involvement. She also tutors kindergarteners and second-graders at Woodward Elementary School through the College’s Mary Jane Underwood Stryker Center for Civic Engagement.

The CLS Program is part of a U.S. government effort to expand dramatically the number of Americans studying and mastering critical foreign languages. It provides fully-funded, group-based intensive language instruction and structured cultural enrichment experiences. CLS Program participants are expected to continue their language study beyond the scholarship and apply their critical language skills in their future professional careers.

Selected finalists for the 2015 CLS Program hail from 49 states, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia and represent more than 200 institutions of higher education from across the United States, including public and private universities, liberal arts colleges, minority-serving institutions and community colleges.

 

Amanda Johnson ’17 Earns Boren Scholarship to Study in China during 2015-16 Academic Year

Amanda Johnson
Amanda Johnson ’17 is among 171 undergrads nationwide to earn a Boren Scholarship. She will study the Chinese language in China during the 2015-16 academic year.

Kalamazoo College sophomore Amanda Johnson ’17 has received a David L. Boren Scholarship to study in China during the 2015-2016 academic year. The $20,000 award will allow her to study Chinese in Beijing and Harbin.

Boren Scholarships are funded by the National Security Education Program, a federal government program that focuses on geographic areas, languages, and fields of study deemed critical to United States national security.

Amanda is one of only 171 undergraduate students (all U.S. passport holders) to receive the 2015-16 Boren award.

“Through the Boren Scholarship, I will focus on improving my Mandarin, immersing myself in Chinese culture, and taking part in both an internship and one-on-one study with a Chinese professor on a topic of my choosing,” said Amanda, a sophomore from Hudsonville, Mich.

In addition to pursuing majors in economics and political science and a minor in Chinese while at K, Amanda is secretary of finance for K’s Student Commission, a consultant for the student Writing Center, and a teaching assistant for the Economics Department. She also is active on campus with the movement for an intercultural center.

Upon receiving the Boren Scholarship, Amanda was enthusiastic about such a wonderful opportunity and the networks it would provide. She says it’s the result of “an amazing support system” that has helped her at K.

“By the time I submitted my final Boren application I had more than 18 rough drafts that had been edited by professors, staff members, and fellow students. This highlights what students at Kalamazoo College can do with a community that supports their endeavors.”

In exchange for funding, Boren award recipients agree to work in the federal government for a period of at least one year following their formal education. Amanda says she may consider fulfilling her Boren Scholarship requirement with the Department of Homeland Security as an asylum officer, helping adjudicate asylum cases by using her Chinese (and Spanish) language skills. Ultimately, she hopes to pursue a career with the United States Department of State and she is excited about the opportunity the Boren Scholarship will give her to jumpstart her career.

During the winter break of her sophomore year, Amanda interned with the Human Rights Initiative of Northern Texas, a nonprofit organization that provides immigration services to individuals who have experienced human rights violations in their home country. This internship opportunity, funded by the Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership, allowed Amanda to work with asylum applicants and utilize her Spanish and Chinese language skills throughout the application process.

The Boren awards are named for former U.S. Senator David L. Boren, the principal author of the legislation that created the National Security Education Program. Boren Scholars (undergrads) and Fellows (graduate students) will live in 40 countries throughout Africa, Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, Eurasia, Latin America, and the Middle East. They will study 37 different languages that are considered critical to U.S. interests, including Arabic, Hindi, Mandarin, Russian, Swahili, and Wolof.

Current Kalamazoo College seniors Luke Winship (China/Mandarin) and Erin Eagan (Senegal/Wolof) are previous Boren Scholars.

 

Commencement Then and Now

Graduates of the class of 1909
Graduates of the class of 1909. Williams Hall is in the background, the present day site of Stetson Chapel and Mandelle Hall.

Can you believe graduation is just around the corner? I couldn’t; or at least I couldn’t until the day last week when I watched College Archivist Lisa Murphy build a library display from old pictures and old traditions of previous commencements. You can see her work in the display case across from the circulation desk.

I’m Mallory Zink, a German and International Area Studies double major and a proud member of the graduating class of 2015—whoo-whoo! I still can’t wrap my head around my own commencement in two months! Wasn’t it only yesterday parents were moving us into Trowbridge, Hoben and Harmon; with mini-fridges, collapsible chairs, and a new ‘college edition’ bed comforter?

1905 senior breakfast attendees
Seniors (all of them) breakfast in 1905 at the home of then-professor Herbert Stetson. He was later president.

We met and made friends, joined clubs, did a mountain of homework, created memories. Later, especially after study abroad, a lot of us moved out of the dorms and split rent for our first ‘real’ houses, in the Vine Street area heavily populated with college students from K and Western. Our residences may have changed; the mountains of homework didn’t. We (or maybe, mostly, I) almost never read the entire 200 pages for our 400-level course in the allotted two-day time period, not because we were (or maybe, mostly, I was) out partying (well…), but instead we were applying for jobs and grad schools! (I’m sticking with that story.)

While I talked with Lisa as she built her display, I wondered if the graduating class of 1909 felt the same way we did freshman year? Did they share their excitement via some turn-of-the-century (the 19th to 20th!) counterpart to “hashtag-Kalamazoo College bound?” Did a young woman with an interest in studying German feel lucky when she got the last teal shower caddy at the bookstore? Was there a bookstore? As the days until graduation dwindled, did they hear as many times as we do: “What is your plan for next year?”

Class Day in the early 1930s
During Class Day Exercises—part of commencement week in the early 1930s—seniors would read class histories and prophecies.

I think every senior dreads that question until she has a plan for the following year…then we (or maybe, mostly, I) begin to hope, maybe even beg, that people will start asking us (me) about our plans, even strangers on the street. I hugged an innocent stranger after I finalized my plans for next year! (I’ll put my major to use when I begin my master’s degree at the University of Bonn in Germany…I told you I was begging to tell someone!)

I like the ‘Class Day Exercises” graduates of the early 1930s did. I like the piano outdoors and the horse and buggy in the background (you can barely see them in the upper left corner). The stage is set where Anderson Athletic Center and facilities management are located today. I bet that class didn’t have to hear the Amtrak train horn.

In 1905 the entire senior class would breakfast at a professor’s or the president’s house. That seems cool, though 300-plus members of the class of 2015 wouldn’t fit in Hodge House.

1929 poster for the senior class play
Poster for the senior class play of 1929, a commencement tradition “way back then.”

In the late 1920s a senior class play was a commencement tradition. Hmm. Maybe Festival Playhouse’s production of CARRIE the musical will serve for our class. After all, senior prom is temporally close to graduation. In the novel the title character kind of addressed any potential overcrowding at a hypothetical commencement breakfast.

It was fun to visit Lisa and check out her display, the old photos in particular…so much different; so much shared.

Commencement for the class of 2015 will take place on Sunday, June 14th at 1 p.m. on the campus quadrangle. I hope to see you there. I wonder what they checked out for more info in 1909.

Text by Mallory Zink ’15. Photos courtesy of Kalamazoo College Archivist Lisa Murphy ’98.

K’s 3 of 300

Rina Fujiwara
Rina Fujiwara

Three Kalamazoo College chemistry majors presented at the 2015 Experimental Biology meeting, a joint meeting of six different societies including the American Association for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) as well as societies for physiology, nutrition, pharmacology, pathology, and anatomy. More than 15,000 scientists attended the meeting in Boston, Massachusetts.

Rina Fujiwara ’15, Sarah Glass ’17, and Victoria Osorio ’16 shared results of the research they did in collaboration with Professor of Chemistry Laura Furge. Their presentations were part of both the Undergraduate Poster Competition and as part of the regular scientific session for ASBMB. Some 300 undergraduate posters composed the ASBMB competition from students across the country and from a variety of college and universities.

Fujiwara’s work, part of her Senior Individualized Project (SIP), showed how the work of two human liver enzymes vital to the body’s processing of medicines is halted by two small molecule inhibitors. The research took place in the Furge lab at Kalamazoo College and was published in Drug Metabolism and Disposition (Fall 2014). Other co-authors included Furge, Amanda Bolles ’14, and Erran Briggs ’14.

Victoria Osorio
Victoria Osorio

Glass and Osorio presented a poster that centered on recent work in the Furge lab with variants of an enzyme responsible for metabolism (or processing in the body) of about 15 percent of all medicines. The presence of these enzyme variants in different individuals can lead to vastly different responses to some pharmaceutical drugs, including cough syrup, the breast cancer drug tamoxifen, and many more. Though not present at the meeting, Mike Glista ’06) and Parker de Waal ’13) were co-authors on the posters.

This summer Fujiwara will enter the University of Pennsylvania Graduate Program in Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics. Osorio and Glass will continue research with Furge this summer. Both plan to attend graduate school after graduating from Kalamazoo College.

Sarah Glass
Sarah Glass

At the Boston meeting Professor of Chemistry Regina Stevens-Truss once again directed her highly acclaimed HOPES project, connecting science teachers with practicing scientists to enhance the quality and hands-on authenticity of primary and secondary classroom science instruction.

Professors Furge and Stevens-Truss are members of the ASBMB and attend the meeting every year. Travel to ASBMB for students Fujiwara, Glass, and Osorio was supported by grants from the Richard J. Cook Research Fellowship Fund (Fujiwara), an award from the ASBMB Student Affiliate (Fujiwara), the Provost Office (Glass, Osorio), and a grant to Furge through the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Travel for Furge and Truss was supported by the Hutchcroft Endowment as well as NIH and grants from ASBMB.

Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Delivers Lecture, Meets with K Students

Visiting Scholar Jeff Wasserstrom
Phi Beta Kappa 2015 Visiting Scholar Jeff Wasserstrom. (Photo: Steve Zylius, UCI Communications)

Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Ph.D., delivers the annual Phi Beta Kappa lecture Tuesday, April 21, 8:00 p.m., in the Mandelle Hall Olmsted Room (1153 Academy St.) on the Kalamazoo College campus.

His lecture, “Angry Ghosts: Chinese Boxers, Foreign Invaders, and the Tragedies of 1900,” is free and open to the public. He will also meet separately with K students during his two-day visit to the campus.

Wasserstrom is Chancellor’s Professor of History at the University of California—Irvine, and editor of the Journal of Asian Studies. An associate fellow of the Asia Society, he is the author of four books, among them “Student Protests in 20th-Century China” and “China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know.” He is also the co-editor of several other books, including “Chinese Characters,” an anthology of profiles of individuals. His current research focuses on the Boxer Uprising and the foreign invasion that crushed it in 1900.

Since 1956, the Phi Beta Kappa Society’s Visiting Scholar Program has been offering undergraduates the opportunity to spend time with some of America’s most distinguished scholars. The purpose of the program is to contribute to the intellectual life of the institution by making possible an exchange of ideas between the Visiting Scholars and the resident faculty and students.

The 13 men and women participating during 2014-2015 will visit 100 colleges and universities with chapters of Phi Beta Kappa, spending two days on each campus and taking full part in the academic life of the institution. They will meet informally with students and faculty members, participate in classroom discussions and seminars, and give a public lecture open to the entire academic community. Now entering its 59th year, the Visiting Scholar Program has sent 623 Scholars on 5,092 two-day visits.

Founded in 1776, Phi Beta Kappa is the nation’s oldest academic honor society. It has chapters at 283 institutions and more than half a million members throughout the country. Its mission is to champion education in the liberal arts and sciences, to recognize academic excellence, and to foster freedom of thought and expression.

 

 

Additional information about the Visiting Scholar Program can be found on Phi Beta Kappa’s website (www.pbk.org).

 

Commitment, Heart and Soul

Four Michigan Campus Compact Award winners with Teresa Denton and Alison Geist
Several of the 2015 Michigan Campus Compact Award winners are flanked by their Center for Civic Engagement mentors and collaborators Teresa Denton (far left) and Alison Geist (far right). The students are (l-r) Jasmine An, Hannah Bogard, Mele Makalo, and Rose Tobin.

Eight Kalamazoo College seniors–each of them Civic Engagement Scholars in K’s Center for Civic Engagement–will receive Michigan Campus Compact (MiCC) Awards for their dedication to community service. Kacey Cook and Mele Makalo earned the MiCC Commitment to Service Award, recognizes up to two students per member campus in the state of Michigan for either the breadth or depth of their community involvement or service experiences. Only 31 students in the state will receive this award.

Jasmine An, Hannah Bogard, Alejandra Castillo, Katherine Rapin, Andrea Satchwell, and Rose Tobin will receive the Heart and Soul Award, “given to students to recognize their time, effort, and personal commitment to their communities through service. “We are thrilled that our remarkable students are receiving these awards,” said Alison Geist, director of the Center for Civic Engagement. “We are even more thrilled that we have had the honor to work closely with them.” The eight will be feted at an awards brunch in East Lansing on April 18. MiCC promotes the education and commitment of Michigan college students to be civically engaged citizens, through creating and expanding academic, co-curricular and campus-wide opportunities for community service, service-learning and civic engagement.

Senior Honored in Speech Contest

Vageesha Liyana-GunawardanaVageesha Liyana-Gunawardana ’15 won the Special Prize in the annual Michigan Japanese Speech Contest, held at the Japanese Consulate in Detroit. Vageesha’s speech was titled “The Policeman I Met That Day Does Not Know My Name.” According to his Japanese language teacher, Assistant Professor of Japanese Noriko Sugimori, the speech is based on his study abroad experience in Tokyo, during which Vageesha was questioned by the police on thirteen different occasions. Inspired by Nobel Peace Prize winner Lester Pearson, Vageesha’s reflection upon these seemingly negative experiences reaffirmed the importance of meeting people and making an effort to understand each individual at deeper levels in order to work toward world peace. His talk, of course, was delivered in Japanese. Vageesha is a chemistry major at Kalamazoo College. He is a United World College alumnus (he attended high school at Pearson UWC in Victoria, British Columbia) and a Davis Scholar. At K he also works in the Center for International Programs.

Psych SIPs at MUPRC

Five senior psychology majors with Proffessor Brittany Liu
Psychology majors who joined Professor Brittany Liu (far right) at this year’s MUPRC included (l-r)–Perri Nicholson, Jessica Varana, Elizabeth Hanley, Grace Barry, and Rachel LePage. Not pictured is Professor Robert Batsell.

Five senior psychology majors presented their Senior Individualized Projects at the 28th annual Michigan Undergraduate Psychology Research Conference [MUPRC] held on the campus of Albion College. Grace Barry presented the talk “The association of narrative structure and psychological well-being in emerging adulthood.” Elizabeth Hanley presented the talk “Reflexive attention to configural and local motion cues in a biological motion display.” Rachel LePage presented the poster “Variation in reward-sensitivity and negative affect in high-risk youth brain-reward function.” Perri Nicholson presented the talk “Saccharin consumption does not result in increased weight gain in rats.” Jessica Varana presented the talk “Moral decision making: Empathy as an indicator for utilitarian or deontological moral judgments.” The students were accompanied by Kalamazoo College psychology faculty members Brittany Liu and Robert Batsell.

SIPs Go Pro

Aaron Schoenfeldt, Mariah Hennen, Krystal Wilson and Callie Daniels-Howell
K presenters as MSS (l-r): Aaron Schoenfeldt, Mariah Hennen, Krystal Wilson, and Callie Daniels-Howell

Four senior anthropology and sociology majors presented their Senior Individualized research at the annual conference of the Midwest Sociological Society (MSS) in Kansas City. Aaron Schoenfeldt, Mariah Hennen, Krystal Wilson, and Callie Daniels-Howell shared their work on sports and identity, re-conceptualizing study abroad, the culture of natural birth, and child hospice care and compassion, respectively. All four participated in regular paper and panel sessions along with sociology faculty, graduate students, and professionals from the Midwest and other parts of the country. “The conference was a very rewarding experience.” said Wilson. “I had the opportunity to present my work with individuals who were just as interested and dedicated in their sociological projects as I was. I also really enjoyed networking and connecting with graduate students discussing the various topics of our research and how we can take it to the public.”

Dean’s List for Winter Term 2015

Congratulations to the following Kalamazoo College students, who achieved a grade point average of 3.5 or better for a full-time course load of at least three units, without failing or withdrawing from any course, during the Winter 2015 academic term. Kudos to the entire group of some 300 students, and good luck in Spring Term, 2015.

Winter 2015

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

Ayaka Abe
Benjamin Abreu
Melissa Acosta
Lucian Aitkins
Mojtaba Akhavan-Tafti
Omid Akhavan-Tafti
Rachel Alworth
Rasseil Alzouhayli
Suma Alzouhayli
Abby Anderson
Katelyn Anderson
Steven Andrews
Jasmine An
Jill Antonishen
Carlos Arellano
Taylor Arney

B

Sara Babcock
Gordon Backer
Sarah Baehr
Shreya Bahl
Katherine Ballew
Caroline Barnett
Grace Barry
Julia Bartlett
William Bartz
Abraham Bayha
Blake Beauchamp
Rebecca Beery
Andrea Beitel
Kate Belew
William Bell
Hayley Beltz
Erin Bensinger
Hannah Berger
Anup Bhullar
Benjamin Blomme
Allison Bloomfield
Vanessa Boddy
Hannah Bogard
Sean Bogue
Serena Bonarski
Georgetta Booker
Madeline Booth
Olivia Bouchard
Kennedy Boulton
Grace Bowe
Jonathan Bowman
Zoe Bowman
Riley Boyd
Nakeya Boyles
Sarah Bragg
Andrew Bremer
Allie Brodsky
Drew Brown
Emerson Brown
Erin Brown
Maxine Brown
Taylor Brown
Thomas Bryant
Joel Bryson
Andrew Buchholtz
Elisse Buhmann
Camille Burke
Mary Burnett
Michelle Bustamante
Erin Butler
Shanice Buys

C

Nicole Caddow
William Cagney
Sonia Camarena
Angel Caranna
Dorothy Carpenter
Raymond Carpenter
Sheila Carter
Haley Cartwright
Marissa Cash
Alejandra Castillo
James Castleberry
Rachel Chang
Kristina Chetcuti
Siu Kwan Katherine Cheung
Chido Chigwedere
Madeleine Chilcote
Emiline Chipman
Jae Hyun Choe
Elina Choi
Jennifer Cho
Youngjoon Cho
Amelia Chronis
Joshua Claassens
Tyler Clack
Taylor Clements
Elizabeth Clevenger
Cody Colvin
Quinton Colwell
Riley Cook
Hannah Cooperrider
Dejah Crystal

D

Susmitha Daggubati
Anna Dairaghi
Christina Dandar
Joshua Daniel
Roger Darling
Natalie Davenport
Charles Davis
Cecilia DeBoeck
David Demarest
Jeremy DePree
David DeSimone
Scott Devine
Dana DeVito
Eric De Witt
Seth Dexter
Green Dickenson
Cecilia DiFranco
Alexis Diller
Margaret Doele
Miranda Doepker
Guillermo Dominguez Garcia
Kelsey Donk
Ana Paula Dos Santos Dantas
Tuan Do
Lauren Drew
Querubin Dubois
Benjamin Dunham
Lotte Dunnell

E

Daniel Eberhart
Maya Edery
Adam Eisenstein
Ian Engstrom
Melissa Erikson
Samuel Ettwein
Andriana Evangelista
Angelia Evangelista
Samuel Evans-Golden
Kevin Ewing

F

Rachel Fadler
Jessie Fales
Abram Farley
Mario Ferrini
Alexis Fiebernitz
Jory Finkelberg
Tyler Fisher
Emily Fletcher
Joshua Foley
Samantha Foran
Delaney Fordell
Steven Fotieo
John Fowler
Maria Franco
Valentin Frank
Emma Franzel
Abigail Fraser
Annah Freudenburg
Maria Fujii
Lydia Fyie

G

Bridget Gallagher
Jacob Gallimore
Mauro Galus
Owen Galvin
Keith Garber
Joana Garcia
Brett Garwood
Katherine Gatz
Charlotte Gavin
Kathleen George
Mousa Ghannam
Camille Giacobone
Kelan Gill
Danielle Gin
Sarah Glass
Samantha Gleason
Daniella Glymin
Abhay Goel
Carter Goetz
Ellie Goldman
Emily Good
Anna Gough
Prachi Goyal
Janelle Grant
Claudia Greening
Lydia Green
Jackson Greenstone
Nya Greenstone
Kaitlyn Greiner
Ethan Grier
Adreanna Grillier
Jared Grimmer
Alexandra Groffsky
Brenden Groggel
Ellie Grossman
Daniel Grost
Guilherme Guedes
In Hye Gu
Yicong Guo
Rebecca Guralnick

H

Simon Haile
Marie Hallinen
Robert Hammond
Daniel Handley
Elizabeth Hanley
Jessica Hansen
Zihan Han
Hadley Harrison
Cheyenne Harvey
Andrew Haubert
Shannon Haupt
Evan Hayden
Veronica Hayden
Bonita Hazel
Stephanie Heard
Frances Heldt
Ashley Henne
Mariah Hennen
Jordan Henning
Kyle Hernandez
Mason Higby
Cassidy Hillis
Kelsey Hill
Louis Hochster
Megan Hoinville
Gabrielle Holme-Miller
Jenna Holmes
Daniel Holtzman
Se-Jung Hong
Drew Hopper
Elise Houcek
Allia Howard
Claire Howland
Jane Huffman
Jason Hugan
Siwook Hwang

I

Pinar Inanli

J

Jordan Jabara
Thomas Jackson
Dana Jacobson
Clare Jensen
Jon Jerow
YanYan Jiang
Lara Job
Amanda Johnson
Andrea Johnson
Katherine Johnson
Kourtney Johnson
Samantha Johnson
Tibin John
Samantha Jolly
Brittany Jones
Alexander Juarez

K

Kamalaldin Kamalaldin
Elyse Kaplan
Abigail Keizer
Gwendolen Keller
Jack Kemper
Samuel Kepes
Kelsey Kerbawy
Rachel Keshishian
Anthony Ketner
Benjamin Kileen
Hannah Kim
Na Young Kim
Savannah Kinchen
William Kirchen
Sai Klein
Hannah Kline
Gabriel Klotz
Julia Koreman
Bharath Kotha
Emily Kotz
Emily Kozal
McKenna Kring
Matthew Kuntzman

L

Ariah Lacey
Lauren Landman
Jeremy Lantis
Bryan Lara
Tessa Lathrop
John Lawless IV
Hannah Lehker
Rachel Leider
Elizabeth Lenning
Jacob Lenning
Rebecca Lennington
Omar Leon
Phuong Le
Arianna Letherer
Sarah Levett
Emily Levy
Samuel Lichtman-Mikol
Rachel Lifton
Emily Lindsay
Bret Linvill
Xiang Lin
Kate Liska
Gordon Liu
Giovanni LoGrasso
Trenton Loos
Bailee Lotus
Chenxi Lu
Liam Lundy

M

Spencer MacDonald
Sydney Madden
Jessica Magana
Lucy Mailing
Hannah Maness
Grace Manger
Sarah Manski
Helena Marnauzs
Nicholas Marsh
Elizabeth Martin
Takumi Matsuzawa
Kelsey Matthews
Madison McBarnes
Karly McCall
Miles McDowall
Adam McDowell
Angus McIntosh
Sara McKinney
Thomas McLravy
Molly Meddock
Jordan Meiller
Roxanna Menchaca
Franklin Meyer
Samuel Meyers
Emily Mickus
Sangtawun Miller
Suzanne Miller
Zach Miller
Ethel Mogilevsky
Gabrielle Montesanti
Daniel Moore
Tessa Moore
Madison Moote
Asia Liza Morales
Vanesa Morales
Alexandra Morris
Cody Mosblech
Chloe Mpinga
Tenley Mustonen

N

Victoria Najacht
Harsha Nand
Jacob Naranjo
Laetitia Ndiaye
Alissa Neff
Annie Nelson
Annie Nelson
Hallie Nerge
Mumo Nganu
Hang Nguyen
Hung Nguyen
Phuong Nguyen
Thi Phuong Lan Nguyen
Viet Nguyen
Perri Nicholson
Anne Nielsen
Nicholas Nizzardini
Rosemarie Nocita
Jonathan Nord
Skyler Norgaard
Mackenzie Norman

O

Bryan Olert
Stephen Oliphant
Hannah Olsen
Michael Oravetz
Eli Orenstein
Colleen Orwin
Alexandria Oswalt
Ty Owens

P

Nirmita Palakodaty
Khusbu Patel
Veeral Patel
Emma Patrash
Bronte Payne
Songyun Peng
Marlisa Pennington
Kaitlyn Perkins
David Personke
Emma Peters
Caroline Peterson
Monysakada Phal
Thanh Thanh Phan
Katherine Pielemeier
Emily Pizza
Emily Powers
Beau Prey

Q

Yilan Qiu

R

Justin Rabidoux
Yajaera Ramirez
Samantha Ramsay
Malavika Rao
Katherine Rapin
Anna Rayas
Shelby Retherford
Maria Rich
Melinda Rietkerk
Philip Ritchie
Annika Roberts
Madeleine Roberts
William Roberts
Camryn Romph
Samuel Rood
Jeremy Roth
Lyla Rothschild
Elinor Rubin-McGregor
Keigan Ryckman
Matthew Ryder
Connor Rzeznik

S

Minato Sakamoto
Amber Salome
Sharayu Salvi
Kira Sandiford
Andrea Satchwell
Gabriel Schat
Anselm Scheck
Maison Scheuer
Ashley Schmidt
Natalie Schmitt
Sarah Schmitt
Cameron Schneberger
Maxwell Schneberger
Kaitlyn Schneider
Aaron Schoenfeldt
Colleen Schuldeis
Robert Schultz
Lisa Sczechowski
Eli Seitz
Rachel Selina
Lauren Seroka
Jenna Sexton
Anthony Shaheen
Hannah Shaughnessy-Mogill
Dylan Shearer
William Sheehan
Ke Sheng
Tianqi Shen
Geon-Ah Shin
Louise Silverman
Petar Simic
Kaylah Simmons
Kylah Simmons
Kriti Singh
Kathryn Skinner
Emily Sklar
Claire Slaughter
Griffin Smalley
Colin Smith
David Smith
Grace Smith
Hayley Smith
Logan Smith
Sarah Smith
Maggie Sneideman
Cassandra Solis
Austin Sroczynski
Honora Stagner
Vethania Stavropoulos
Ernest Stech
Collin Steen
Marian Strauss
Savannah Stuart
Amanda Stutzman
Thomas Stuut
Michelle Sugimoto
Xin Sui
Caroline Sulich
Shang Sun

T

Emerson Talanda-Fisher
Kiyoto Tanemura
Aidan Tank
Emma Tardiff
Lauren Tartalone
Lilian Taylor
Karen Timm
Mary Tobin
Carolyn Topper
Alexander Townsend
Madeleine Tracey
Brooke Travis
Camila Trefftz
Dakota Trinka
Sydney Troost
Hassan Turk

U

Amanda Ullrick
Elizabeth Uribe

V

Asha Vadlamudi
David Vanderkloot
Caleb VanDyke
Kaela Van Til
Jessica Varana
Jordan Veillette
Elisia Venegas
Kierra Verdun
Rolf Verhagen Metman
Thomas Verville
James Villar
Anh-Tu Vu

W

Raoul Wadhwa
Jacob Waier
Alyssa Walker
Brigid Walkowski
Marley Walter
Ning Wang
Jacob Wasko
Connor Webb
Kenneth Weiss
John Wenger
Haley Wentz
Alexander Werder
Cameron Werner
Joseph Westerfield
Scott Wharam
Caitlyn Whitcomb
Elijah Wickline
Raphael Wieland
Abigail Wilcox
Carolyn Williams
Rachel Williams
Jordan Wiskur
Natalia Wohletz
Graham Wojtas
Camille Wood
Madeline Woods
Erika Worley
Lindsay Worthington
Kate Wynne

X

Anja Xheka
Cindy Xiao
Jie Xu
Jincheng Xu
Mingyue Xu

Y

Brent Yelton
Skylar Young

Z

Jingcan Zhu
Mallory Zink