Building Bridges Awards Fall 2024
Building Bridges Scholarship Awards
The College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) is happy to announce the recipients for the 2024 - 2025 Building Bridges Awards.
The Building Bridges Awards were created by CAS and Dean Peter J. Schraeder to help undergraduate students realize their full academic potential and to support their professional aspirations and connections to their communities. Multiple scholarships of $1,000 each were awarded for each category in the portfolio as detailed below:
Building Community Bridges
This scholarship recognizes current Juniors and Seniors from marginalized groups (including but not limited to race, ethnicity, gender, religion, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, and disability) who have a positive impact at Loyola and/or in their communities through their advancement of diversity and inclusion initiatives. Student applicants need to demonstrate how they have had a positive impact at Loyola and/or in other communities through their advancement of diversity and inclusion initiatives.
2024 - 2025 Recipients
- Dolapo Adeyemo, Junior | Major: Neuroscience (Cognitive and Behavioral)
- Aliyah Studt, Junior | Majors: Psychology, Neuroscience (Cognitive and Behavioral)
- Haaris Malik, Senior | Major: Political Science
- Hiba Rizvi, Senior | Major: Software Engineering
- Kayla Jarm, Senior | Major: Bioinformatics
- Laurel Miskovic, Senior | Major: Psychology
- Lizzy Zamora-Torrijos, Junior | Majors: Criminal Justice & Criminology, Philosophy
- Olivia Murad, Senior | Major: Biochemistry
- Rhea "V" Viswanathan, Senior | Major: Biology
- Samantha Geni, Senior | Major: Psychology
- Sami Ahmed, Senior | Major: Biology
- Sarah Savani, Junior | Major: Psychology
- Tiera Prince, Junior | Major: Molecular Biology
- Yolenna Regmi, Senior | Majors: Criminal Justice and Criminology, Political Science
- Ghani Zohaib, Senior | Major: Psychology
Building Interdisciplinary Bridges
The Building Interdisciplinary Bridges scholarship supports current Freshman and Sophomores who are pursuing a declared interdisciplinary minor and declared major within CAS. Student applicants must demonstrate how their interdisciplinary minor will enrich their academic training and/or contribute to their future career goals.
2024 - 2025 Recipients
- Aaliyah Best | Sophomore, Middle East & Islamic World Studies
- Riley Dougherty | Sophomore, Sociolegal Studies
- Ebunoluwa Fapounda | Sophomore, Bioinformatics
- Addie Hiestand | Sophomore, Women's Studies & Gender Studies
- Ela Ilic | Sophomore, Computer Crime & Forensics
- Vraj Madhiwala | Sophomore, Bioethics
- Griffin Meisel | Sophomore, European Studies
- Raza Mian | Sophomore,Arabic Language & Culture
- Lucy Nelson | Sophomore, Japanese Language & Culture
- Mary Rittle | Sophomore, Women's Studies & Gender Studies
- Fiona Schneider | Sophomore, German Studies
- Eniola Shonaike | Sophomore, Bioethics
- Rumaysa Syeda | Sophomore, Arabic Language & Culture
- Catherine Walker | Sophomore, Psychology of Crime & Justice
- Ariana Woof | Sophomore, Psychology of Crime & Justice
Building International Bridges
This scholarship supports current Juniors and Seniors who are studying abroad through the Office of International Programs during either the fall or spring semesters, January-term (J-term), or May - June summer sessions. Student applicants need to demonstrate how study abroad will inform their understanding of diverse cultures and perspectives and how they will apply that knowledge to their academic and professional careers.
2024 - 2025 Recipients
- Makiya Barrow, Junior | John Felice Rome Center, Italy | Spring 2025
- Dana Cummings, Junior | University of Edinburgh, Scotland | Spring 2025
- Amara Grajewski, Junior | Kansai Gaidai University, Japan | Spring 2025
- CJ Harris, Senior | ISEP Tokyo International University, Japan | Spring 2025
- Kayla Jarm, Senior | John Felice Rome Center, Italy | Fall 2024
- Ashley Jimmerson, Junior | IES Abroad, Amsterdam | Spring 2025
- Amelie Malone, Junior | Loyola Go Global: SIT Study Abroad, South Africa | Summer 2025
- Alie McDougall, Junior |Sciences Po Aix, France | Spring 2025
- Yolenna Regmi, Senior | John Felice Rome Center, Italy | Spring 2025
- Natalia Rodriguez, Junior | John Felice Rome Center, Italy | Summer 2025
- Mike Rogowski, Junior | John Felice Rome Center, Italy | Spring 2025
- Liam Wilson, Junior | Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan | Fall 2024
About the College of Arts and Sciences
The College of Arts and Sciences is the oldest of Loyola University Chicago’s 15 schools, colleges, and institutes. More than 150 years since its founding, the College is home to 20 academic departments and 37 interdisciplinary programs and centers, more than 450 full-time faculty, and nearly 8,000 students. The 2,000+ classes that we offer each semester span an array of intellectual pursuits, ranging from the natural sciences and computational sciences to the humanities, the social sciences, and the fine and performing arts. Our students and faculty are engaged internationally at our campus in Rome, Italy, as well as at dozens of University-sponsored study abroad and research sites around the world. Home to the departments that anchor the University’s Core Curriculum, the College seeks to prepare all of Loyola’s students to think critically, to engage the world of the 21st century at ever deepening levels, and to become caring and compassionate individuals. Our faculty, staff, and students view service to others not just as one option among many, but as a constitutive dimension of their very being. In the truest sense of the Jesuit ideal, our graduates strive to be “individuals for others.”
The College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) is happy to announce the recipients for the 2024 - 2025 Building Bridges Awards.
The Building Bridges Awards were created by CAS and Dean Peter J. Schraeder to help undergraduate students realize their full academic potential and to support their professional aspirations and connections to their communities. Multiple scholarships of $1,000 each were awarded for each category in the portfolio as detailed below:
About the College of Arts and Sciences
The College of Arts and Sciences is the oldest of Loyola University Chicago’s 15 schools, colleges, and institutes. More than 150 years since its founding, the College is home to 20 academic departments and 37 interdisciplinary programs and centers, more than 450 full-time faculty, and nearly 8,000 students. The 2,000+ classes that we offer each semester span an array of intellectual pursuits, ranging from the natural sciences and computational sciences to the humanities, the social sciences, and the fine and performing arts. Our students and faculty are engaged internationally at our campus in Rome, Italy, as well as at dozens of University-sponsored study abroad and research sites around the world. Home to the departments that anchor the University’s Core Curriculum, the College seeks to prepare all of Loyola’s students to think critically, to engage the world of the 21st century at ever deepening levels, and to become caring and compassionate individuals. Our faculty, staff, and students view service to others not just as one option among many, but as a constitutive dimension of their very being. In the truest sense of the Jesuit ideal, our graduates strive to be “individuals for others.”