Dozens of Class of '22 graduates earn prestigious scholarships
(Joshua Armstrong/US Air Force Academy)
By Ray Bowden
US Air Force Academy Strategic Communications
US AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Col. – Dozens of second lieutenants who graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy last month will enter graduate programs thanks to a variety of scholarships, including many funded by the Academy Foundation.
Class of 2022 scholarship recipients will study at Carnegie Mellon. Georgia Institute of Technology; Harvard John F. Kennedy School of Government. MIT? Stanford? Oxford; Cambridge? and other higher education institutions.
“The quality of our curriculum and the dedication of students to their academic course is evident from the nearly 100 graduates who received prestigious national and international scholarships this year,” said Brig. General Linell Letendre, dean of the Academy's faculty. “These recipients build on the educational foundation they received at the Academy and truly embody learning is a lifelong endeavor.”
All scholarship recipients are Air Force and Space Air Force Second Lieutenants.
Carnegie Mellon University (Pennsylvania)
— Jessi Jenkins and Kyle Samuels – international relations and politics
Georgia Institute of Technology
—William Boswell? Seth Breyfogle; Andrew Clapp; John Evans; Celina Guan? Matthew Kuczajda; Grant Schlichting; and Jacob Szymanski – aerospace engineering
— Cason Couch and Brooke Howell – electrical and computer engineering
— Maxwell DiLalla – cyber security
— Matthew Kiesel – math and data analysis
— Lindsey Lucas – business research
Harvard John F. Kennedy School of Government (Massachusetts)
— Sydney Hansen, Michelle Roca and Isaac Van Wert – public policy
Knight-Hennessy (California)
— Fran Verville and Justin Yates – international politics
The Knight-Hennessy Fellowship supports multidisciplinary, multicultural graduate students throughout Stanford University.
Marshall (UK)
— Sam Brody – engineering science at Oxford University
— Ally Burba – gender and international relations at the University of Bristol
The Marshall Scholarship funds young Americans with high ability to study for a master's degree in the UK
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Boston)
—Grant Appel. Brittany Bishop? Courtney Kirkpatrick? Kendra Middleton? and Benjamin Waters – aeronautics and astronautics
— Samuel Karlson – nuclear science and engineering
— Lauren Blanks – tech policy
— Luke Hardy – mechanical engineer
— Kyle Thomas – operations research
— Evan Marrone and Cameron Cubra – business analytics
National Science Foundation (Georgia Tech)
— Jacob Szymanski – aerospace engineering
Northeastern University (Boston)
— Frank Rossi – computer science
Purdue University (Indiana)
— Ritesh Gautam? Sean Gaither? Harmont Grenier; Andrew Jariga? Shane Oatman? Drew Priest? Thomas McLean; Adam Moeller? and Erin Shea – aeronautics and astronautics
— Nestor Levin – chemical engineer
— Grant Davis – civil engineer
— Ricardo De Bastos – electrical and computer engineer
Pardee RAND Graduate School (California)
— Yun Ro – PhD in policy analysis
The RAND Corporation is a US non-profit think tank.
Rice University (Texas)
— Adam Broshkevitch and Noah Pritchard – mechanical engineering
Texas A&M
— Charles Atkinson and John Pallotta – aeronautical engineering
University of Washington (Washington)
— Jarrett Van Dyke – aeronautical engineering
Academy Foundation Scholarships
The graduates of the six Classes of 2022 received scholarships sponsored by him US Air Force Academy Foundationthe fundraising arm of the school.
— John Koehler Gerhart Scholarship (University of Strasbourg, France): Wedgide Bourdeau – language and society
— Holaday Scholarship (University of Oxford, UK): Adrienne Eckstein – engineering science
The Holaday Scholarship is an annual scholarship that allows a student who is competing but not awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to do postgraduate work at Oxford. The scholarship funds two years of postgraduate study for a master's degree in any field.
— Lawson Scholarship (Catholic University, Washington DC): Jack Erwin – philosophy
The Lawson Scholarship is awarded to an outstanding cadet in one of the humanities.
— Earl and Marion Nutter Trust (Carnegie Mellon): Kyle Samuels – international relations and politics
— Ethics Fellowship (Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, Washington DC): Kayla Steiner – Latin American Studies
— Colonel Franklin C. Wolfe Scholarship (University of Virginia): Eric Miller – English
Air Force and Space Force Scholarships
Seven Class of 2022 graduates received Air Force and Space Force scholarships.
DAWN – Developing America's Workforce Nucleus – scholarship recipients are:
— Ryan Chen – aeronautics and astronautics at Stanford
— Sam Brody – engineering science at Oxford
— Carson McLaughlin – physics at Cambridge
— Molly Ellinger – mechanical engineering at the University of Texas
— Jacob Szymanski – aerospace engineering at Georgia Tech
The recipients of the US Space Force Scholarship Program are Zachary Rotzal who will study computer science at Stanford and Eve Schoenrock who will study data science at the University of Virginia.
