NIUAA Scholarship Winners

NIUAA SCHOLARSHIP AWARD WINNERS

Each year, for over 50 years, the NIU Alumni Association has provided financial assistance to thousands of students, and FY20 was no different. The NIU Alumni Association offered 10 $2,500 Merit Scholarships to continuing undergraduate students who will be sophomores, juniors or seniors in the 2020-2021 school year and are enrolled full time at NIU for both fall and spring semesters ($1,250 each semester). Each applicant is eligible to receive only one merit scholarship per academic year.

Just over 100 continuing and transfer students applied for an NIU Alumni Association Merit Scholarship. After meeting all qualifications, 41 applications were ready to be reviewed by the Student Engagement and Scholarship Committee. Each application was reviewed by committee members and ranked with a score. The top 10 applications were identified and the scholarship recipients were:

Anjishnu Chakrabarti

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Marketing and Psychology, 4.0 GPA Buffalo Grove, Illinois Katherine Hahn-Boisvert

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Communications-Corporate and Counseling, 3.891 GPA Plainfield, Illinois Cristian Hernandez

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Foreign Language-French, 3.918 GPA Elk Grove Village, Illinois Kate James

College of Business Accountancy and Business Administration, 3.842 GPA Springfield, Illinois Samira Khorfan

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Economics and Foreign Language-French, 4.0 GPA Naperville, Illinois

Alison Kramer

College of Business Accountancy and Management, 3.957 GPA Genoa, Illinois Alicia LaRouech

Colleges of Health and Human Sciences and Liberal Arts and Sciences English and Linguistics and Speech Language PathologyAudiology, 4.0 GPA Coal City, Illinois Katherine Lavoie

College of Business Accountancy, 4.0 GPA DeKalb, Illinois Emma McMahon

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Communications, Sociology and Women and Gender Studies, 4.0 GPA Flora, Illinois Lucas Schiltz

College of Business Business Administration and Marketing, 4.0 GPA St. Charles, Illinois

The Alumni Association Luncheon, where scholarship recipients are recognized, was scheduled for April 2020 at the Barsema Alumni and Visitors Center. However, due to the pandemic, the event was canceled.