Every year, another Ursinus student wins another award to take them further—in their career, in their research or in their travels. Their stories inspire us, and we think they will also inspire you to pursue the types of awards they received.
A Love of Language: Tia Alan ’24 Earns Prestigious Fulbright Fellowship
As a Fulbright awardee, Alan will be a standalone professor at a university in Morocco for 10 months beginning in August.
Cassie Denning ’26 to Study Abroad at one of the “Four Ancients”
Denning was awarded the McFarland Scholarship by the St. Andrews Society of Philadelphia. She will study at the University of Edinburgh for a full year.
Environmental Studies and Theater Major Earns Prestigious Watson Fellowship
Joey Nolan ’24 will travel to five countries to engage with different forms of theater during his “Watson year” through a yearlong grant that allows recent college graduates to explore the world abroad.
Trey Dykeman ’25 to Study at Ancient Scottish University as a St. Andrews Scholar
Each year, the St. Andrews Society of Philadelphia selects a small group of American students from only 30 participating institutions to study at the oldest universities in the English-speaking world. This year, Trey Dykeman ’25 was the society’s favored recipient.
Psychology Student Becomes Ursinus’s First SAFE Project Fellow
Sophie Louis ’24 has always had a passion for helping others. Now, she’s putting that passion to work as the first Ursinus student to join the Collegiate Recovery Leadership Academy.
Armstrong ’20 and Bullock ’20 Selected as Watson Fellows
As first-year roommates, Tommy Armstrong and Garrett Bullock started their academic journey at Ursinus together. Now the two seniors will be starting another major journey as recipients of the prestigious Thomas J. Watson Fellowship.
Ursinus Fulbright Scholar to Research in Netherlands
Jason Bennett ’19, of Allentown, Monmouth County, N.J., is the twelfth Ursinus student to be awarded the distinctive scholarship since 2007. He will study theoretical high-energy physics at the University of Groningen.
Ursinus Senior Awarded Prestigious NSF Graduate Fellowship
Good things come in threes, and that’s especially true for Ursinus College’s young scientists. Jenna Pellegrino ’17 is the third Ursinus student to earn a prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.