Fellowships and Awards

Martinez has been named the recipient of the Celina Karp Biniaz Model of Resilience Award from Grinnell College. The Award was established to honor Celina’s courageously hopeful life and legacy and bestows a cash prize.

The Udall Foundation awards scholarships and special honors to college sophomores and juniors for study in fields related to the environment and to Native Americans and Alaska Natives in fields related to health care and Tribal public policy.

Garcia, a biology major and science, medicine, and society concentrator, plans to pursue a medical degree and master’s in public health. She is committed to train as a primary care physician who is focused on addressing issues related to policy, care, and research for underserved Latine communities in the Los Angeles County area

Joyce Ceballos ’25 has joined the list of Grinnellians accepted to the prestigious Public Policy and International Affairs Program (PPIA). In past years, Grinnell students Valery Lopez ’24, Loyal Terry ’23, Maximillian Hill ’20, and Angela Frimpong ’20 have also participated in the program.

The Goldwater Scholarship Program seeks to identify and support college sophomores and juniors who show exceptional promise to become this nation’s next generation of research leaders in their fields.

Sira Nassoko ’24 has been awarded a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship for 2024–25 to explore music and soundscapes of the environment to reveal a lineage of hope and resilience across four countries.

Grinnell College is named one of the top producers of 2023–24 U.S. students in the Fulbright Program, the U.S. government’s flagship international educational exchange program. Fulbrighters exchange ideas, build people-to-people connections, and work to address complex global challenges. 

Kathryn Jagow Mohrman ’67 created the Mohrman Fellowship Fund to support student research conducted with a faculty mentor.

Willig, class of 2023 from Brookline, Massachusetts, graduated with a music major and an American studies concentration. Their essay titled “Critical Fabulation for Survival: Knowledge of Pre-colonial Gender in Igbo Culture to Sustain Queer Imaginings of Care,” explores anti-queer and patriarchal violence in Nigeria and how these oppressive structures impact the nation’s citizens and members of its diaspora.

Grinnell College May 2023 graduates Daniel Rosenbloom and Dorota Ziabicka were awarded Critical Language Scholarships for summer 2023 and Pierce Fairbanks and Isabella Maloney participated in summer 2022.