Recent National Scholarship Winners
We celebrate all NAU student scholars winning prestigious awards. Here are some examples of Recent Winners:
Olivia Konig, Honors International Affairs Major. Winner of the 2022 Cobell Indigenous Education Scholarship and the 2024 Charles B. Rangel Summer Enrichment Program.
Brooke Davis, Master’s candidate in Public Health. Winner of the 2024 Udall Native American Congressional Internship and the Udall Native American Graduate Fellowship.
Chiara Holgate, Fitness Wellness and Indigenous Health Major. Winner of the 2024 Udall Native American Undergraduate Scholarship.
Mariessa Fowler, Environmental Sciences Major. Winner of the 2024 Udall Native American Undergraduate Scholarship.
Kimberly Higuera, Master’s candidate in Teaching Spanish. Winner of the 2024 Fulbright U.S. English Teaching Assistantship grant to Argentina.
Hailey Lopez, Alumna with Master’s in Communication. Winner of the 2024 Fulbright U.S. English Teaching Assistantship grant to South Korea.
Andrea Lopez, 2023 Honors IGP Alumni with a degrees in Biology and Modern Languages (Spanish emphasis). 2023 Winner of the Fulbright U.S. Student Program English Teaching Assistantship to Spain.
Rebekah McNiel, Honors Junior Interdisciplinary Global Program majoring Business Management and Modern Languages and Spanish. 2023 Winner of the Udall Scholarship for Native American Initiatives.
Andrew Svabik, 2023 Honors Alumni with a University Certificate in Business Economics and a minor in Japanese. 2023 Winner of the Fulbright U.S. Student Program English Teaching Assistantship to Cambodia. 2023 NAU Delegate to the 11th Annual University Scholars Leadership Symposium in Bangkok, Thailand hosted by the United Nations.
Sophia Zuniga, Junior majoring in Anthropology with Sociocultural Emphasis. Winner of the 2023 Public Policy and International Affairs Junior Summer Institute at Princeton University. Read more about Sophia in the NAU Review.
Randell York, Interdisciplinary Global Program Junior majoring in Business Accountancy with a minor in Chinese. 2023 Winner of the Boren Scholarship to Taiwan.
Beyonce Bahe, Honors Biomedical Sciences Major. Dec 2023 Gold Axe and President’s Awards. 2023 Truman Scholarship Finalist. 2022 Winner of the Udall Undergraduate Scholarship. 2021 Winner of the Cobell Indigenous Scholarship. 2022 Peer Mentor for the Honors Native American Summer Research Program. Read more about Beyonce in the NAU Review.
Karli VanderMeersch, Honors Sophomore double major in Criminology & Criminal Justice and Psychological Sciences. Finalist and alternate in the 2023 Fulbright UK Junior Summer Institute Competition for study in Aberystwyth, Wales.
Anthony Zapata, Alumni with Bachelor’s in Health Sciences-Public Health and a minor in Biology. Finalist in the 2022 Rhodes Scholarship Competition for graduate study at Oxford University. Read more about Anthony in NAU News.