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U-M PKP Project Grant Past Winners:

2020-2021

  • Stephanie Hall

  • Minki Kim

2019-2020

  • Sahin Acikgoz

  • Alex Lu

2018-2019

  • Calli VanderWilde

  • Harry van der Laan

2017-2018

  • Abishek Rajkumar $2,500

  • Yael Braunschweig $5,000

  • Elana Goldenkoff $5,000

  • Aritra Sasmal $2,500

  • Nikita La Cruz $5,000

2016-2017

  • Lisa Walsh

  • Michelle Fearon

  • Benjamin Li

  • Jennifer Angell

  • Monica Choo

  • Preeti Samudra

  • Ryan Townshend

  • Callie Chappell

2015 UM Chapter Project Grant Winners

GRADUATE STUDENT

  • Bryan Syverud - $5000 (Biomedical Engineering)

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT

  • Anna Forringer-Beal - $4000 (Anthropology & Women’s Studies)

  • Ryan Thomas - $5000 (Biomedical Engineering)

  • David Schafer - $3000 (Honors Individualized Major: Peace, Conflict & Human Rights Studies)

  • Brennan McMichael - $3000 (Bimolecular Science)

NATIONAL FELLOWSHIP WINNER ($5000)

  • Sarah Ann Knutson

2014 UM Chapter Project Grant Winners

GRADUATE STUDENT

  • Sarah Alsaden - $5000 (Law)

  • Amy Navvab - $5000 (Social Work)

  • Scott Zavada - $5000 (Engineering)

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT - were awarded $2,500 each.

  • Lena Kremin - $2500 (LS&A)

  • Layne Vandenberg - $2500 (LS&A)

NATIONAL FELLOWSHIP WINNER ($5000)

  • Xiao Wang

2013 UM Chapter Scholarship and Award Winners

JUNIOR

  • 1st Place ($2,000): Sepideh Ashrafzadeh

  • 2nd Place ($500): Clare Toenisketter

  • SENIOR1st Place ($2,500): Amy Navvab

  • 2nd Place ($1,000): Rachel Ruderman

  • GRADUATE STUDENT1st Place Tie ($3,000): Andrew Wald & Heidi Wong

NATIONAL FELLOWSHIP WINNER ($15000)

  • Connie Shi

2012 UM Chapter Scholarship and Award Winners

JUNIOR ($2000)

  • Zhang, Lily

  • SENIOR ($2500)Shi, Connie

  • GRADUATE STUDENT ($3000)Bohl, Michael

2011 UM Chapter Scholarship and Award Winners

JUNIORS ($500)

  • Bies, Katherine

  • Horowski, Meredith

  • Ku, Kelly

  • Lewis, Paul

  • SENIORS ($1000)Janes, Perry

  • Martinez, Kimberly

  • Selden, Chelsea

  • Yang, He

  • GRADUATE STUDENTS ($1000)Iliff, Adam

  • Liao, Hongwei

  • NATIONAL FELLOWSHIP WINNER ($5000)Burns, Samuel

2010 UM Chapter Scholarship and Award Winners

JUNIORS ($500)

  • Reinhardt, Sarah

  • Stier, Matthew

  • Yang, He

  • Zillioux, Jacqueline

  • SENIORS ($1000)Callender, Kevin

  • Progovac, Ana

  • GRADUATE STUDENTS ($1000)Strickland, Shelley

  • Kron, Michelle

  • Fallahi-Sichani, Mohammad

  • NATIONAL FELLOWSHIP WINNER ($5000)Callendar, Kevin

2009 UM Chapter Scholarship and Award Winners

  • SENIORS ($1000)Field, Katie M.

  • Isaacs-See, Jillian

  • Martin, Katherine Iman

  • Selden, Clare

  • Yun, Jung-In

  • GRADUATE STUDENT ($1000)Dupuis, Catherine Mareva


National Fellowship Recipients from UM

2019 Elana Goldenkoff has been selected as a Fellow and will receive $8,500!

2018 Jonathan Williams has been selected as a Fellow and will receive $5,000!

In 2015, Sarah Ann Knutson, our third consecutive winner, received a $5000 national fellowship. Read more about Sarah on our News page at http://www.umphikappaphi.umich.edu/news.html . Sarah is currently studying Archaeology and History at Cambridge University in England.

In 2014, Xiao Wang received a $5,000 national fellowship, one of only 51 at this level awarded annually. See more about Xiao on our News page at http://www.umphikappaphi.umich.edu/news.html Xiao is currently studying medicine at Johns Hopkins University.

In 2013, Connie Shi became the first University of Michigan student to receive a prestigious $15,000 Marcus Urann national fellowship. Named for the founder of Phi Kappa Phi, there are only six fellowships at this level awarded annually. See more about Connie on our News page at http://www.umphikappaphi.umich.edu/news.html Connie is currently studying medicine at Harvard University.

In 2011, U-M student Samuel Burns received a $5,000 national fellowship.

In 2010, U-M student Kevin A. Callender received a $5,000 national fellowship.

Other national fellowship winners who have received graduate degrees from the University of Michigan are:

Javier Orman, 2007 Fellowship winner, Music

James Reinhart, 2006 Fellowship winner, Medicine

Kevin Haworth, 2003 Fellowship winner, Applied Physics