UC Riverside, Office of Undergraduate, Scholarships, and Awards

The Scholarship Office provides a range of services to undergraduate students intended to maximize their competitiveness for prestigious awards and to create more scholarship opportunities for students on our campus. We identify students who are eligible for national competitions, provide individual mentoring to help students prepare the strongest possible applications, and give workshops about scholarship programs to ensure that students have the maximum possible information from funding agencies. We work with first-year students, continuing students, and seniors to teach them how to distinguish their undergraduate records and to create effective strategies for securing scholarships, fellowships, and awards.

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Recent UCR Winners

Rebecca Ann Seagle
Rebecca won the Donald Strauss Foundation Scholarship. Her project is "ADD: Fostering A Comprehensive Approach to Academic Success". The purpose of the project is to create a video and accompanying pamphlet to be distributed to school districts and families to better serve the needs of K-12 students with ADD in any of its varieties.

Amy Avelar
Amy has been awarded a 2005 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.
As an NSF Graduate Research Scholar, Amy will pursue her Ph.D. at UCR, conducting research on carborane acids, known as “superacids” for their strength. They hold great promise in improving the quality and octane rating of gasoline, developing polymers and synthesizing pharmaceuticals.

Daniel Gil-Marca
Daniel is the 2005 Jack Kent Cooke Scholarship recipient.
By this year’s application deadline, college and universities in all 50 states plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico had nominated 1,290 candidates for the Foundation’s Graduate Scholarship for college seniors and recent alumni. This is one of the largest and most competitive scholarships offered in the US.

Sean William Kaloostian
Sean was selected to be one of the sixteen regional finalists to compete for the prestigious Rhodes Scholarships for 2006.
The Rhodes competition this year received 903 applications for the 32 scholarships. Sean is the first UCR undergraduate in over twenty years to make it this far in the competition. Sean is a junior, who is pursuing a triple major in Psychology, Sociology and the Biological Sciences. He is in the top 1% of his class, and he plans to graduate in three years.