Past Ray Travel Award Winners

2025 - 2026 Academic Year

Funding Period #4 (Conference occurring April - June 2026)

• Asia Bender
• Peng Chen
• Sara Ellis
• Fuyi Feng
• Ariana Hernandez-Colmenares
• Kelly Hiersche
• Jiyoon Kang
• Hyejin Kim
• Atinuke Oduloye
• Ruth Oliwe
• Alexia Ramos
• Olivia Rowland
• Kenny Saephan
• Anastasia Shikanova
• Jaee Sonalkar
• Autumn Sylvestri
• Amy Watson-Grace
• Sarah White
• Caitlin Wingerd
• Dan Zhu
• Alexis Zickafoose

Funding Period #3 (Conference occurring January - March 2026)

• Syed Murtaza Arshad
• Rani Bawa
• Juan Benavides
• Brian Capobianco
• Kaitlyn Cimney
• Dymond Davis
• Ruixuan Ding
• Sinem Esengen
• Mohammadreza Fathizadan
• Caleb Gooden
• Marwan Haddad
• David Hibler
• Mohammad Jawad Jahid
• Jongyun Jung
• Veeramani Karuppuchamy
• Elizabeth Maus
• Emily Mazan
• Meghan Novotny
• Onur Ozkaynak
• Brandon Rothrock
• Jordan Soltau
• Christopher Vadala

Funding Period #2 (Conference occurring October - December 2025)

• Blake Bringhurst
• Andre Felipe
• Jon Fritz Lucy
• Guarnieri Sudeshna
• Gun Min Hai
• Megan Jamison
• Priya Jana
• Tanay Jawdekar
• Taylor June
• Nikoo Karimi
• Haley Klimaszewski
• Emily Nothnagle
• Michelle Pham
• Lizzy Sakulich
• Tanmay Salvi
• Sumita Sen
• Shekhar Shinde
• CJ Smyth-Small (Declined)
• Charlize Wang
• Evangeline Warren

Funding Period #1 (Conference occurring July - September, 2025)

• Aula Andika Fikrullah Al Balad
• Katelyn Amstutz
• Jacklynn Beck
• Miryana Dayanti
• Samantha DeAngelo
• Grace Gutierrez
• Yiming Huang
• Courtney Jewell
• Hyejin Kim
• Cameron Macaskill
• Jillian Pierson
• Juan Quijia Pillajo
• Michaela Rogers
• JaeYoung Sim
• Yuvraj Singh
• Madison Von Deylen
• Lily Wang
• Sam Wrigglesworth

2024 - 2025 Academic Year

Funding Period #4 (Conference occurring April - June, 2025)

• Zahra Abedinezhadmehrabadi
• Sudarshan Adhikari
• Kestrel Anderson
• Hunmin Cha
• Mandy Darrington
• Dane Elliott
• Ikramul Hasan
• Erica Howard
• Feifan Ma
• Yashvi Malhotra
• Aguia Nicolas
• Chan Hee Song
• Stephanie Stewart-Hill
• Alyssa Stover
• Amanda Swanson
• Jaee Sonalkar (Declined funding)
• Manita Thapa
• Nicole Volk
• Sadie White

Funding Period #3 (Conference occurring January - March, 2025)

• Grace Amadon, Clinical Psychology
• Madison Dahn, Horticulture & Crop Science
• Manpreet Kaur, Food Science & Technology
• Akshay Kudva, Chemical Engineering
• Jongwoo Lee, Special Education
• Salau Oluwadamilola, Geography
• Lily Schumacher, Biophysics
• Sagarika Taneja, Chemistry
• Paul Toth, Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology
• Nicole Volk, Agricultural Communication, Education, & Leadership
• Danielle Wampler, Physics
• Lily Wolf, Women's Gender & Sexuality Studies

Funding Period #2 (Conference occurring October - December, 2024)

• Kaha Abdi
• Jill Davis
• Fiama Guevara
• Camila Gutierrez Manriquez
• Deanna Holroyd
• Iresha Jayasinghe
• Ishani Karki Kudva
• Ionell Jay Terogo

Funding Period #1 (Conference occurring July - September, 2024)

• Tryanti Abdulrahman
• Madeline Carrola
• Alanis De La Cruz Pérez
• Alisyn Greenfield
• Courtney Jewell
• José Pérez
• Laine Rumreich

2023 - 2024 Academic Year

Funding Period #1 (Conference occurring July - September, 2023)

• Sabrina Durso
• Caleb Gonzolez
• Rushikesh Joshi
• Melanie Medina Lopez
• Shridhar Sanghvi
• Anneliese Schenk
• Danielle Voss

Funding Period #2 (Conference occurring October - December, 2023)

• Natalie Andras
• Renee Bowling
• Rachel Brown
• Mary Byrne
• Yi (Jess) Dong
• Sarah Henry
• Sonu Kumar
• Sangeun Lee
• Xuezhao Li
• Xinyue Lu
• Brian O'Rourke
• Snehal Patil
• Erica Shelton
• Meredith Suhr
• Bradley Sweeney
• Julia Vrtilek
• Luther Young

Funding Period #3 (Conference occurring January - March, 2024)

• Sheila Ameri
• Rani Bawa
• Benjamin Beese
• Michelle Beverly
• Kirsten Chrzan
• Paul Cockrum
• Cameryn Cooley
• Donley Cormode
• Sinem Esengen
• Lauren Keyes
• Phuong Le
• Emily Mazan
• Mason Myers
• Caroline Norfleet
• Kazune Pax
• Jill Singer
• Carly Smith
• Rana Tarabay
• Kush Kumar Yadav
• Chia-Hsin Yin
• Wei William Zhou

Funding Period #4 (Conference occurring April - June, 2024)

• Joy Bhattacharyya
• Nicholas Booker
• Julianna Calabrese
• Alice Yu-Chin Cheng
• Layne Garrelts
• Kelly Hiersche
• Madison Kacica
• John Layman
• Gabriel Lee
• Charlie Mace
• Elizabeth Maus
• Alexader Nichols
• Camila Andrea Olivero Araya
• Seungbin Park
• Caprice Phillips
• Annie Ryan
• Kaveri Sarkar
• Shekhar Shinde
• Ashin Sunny
• Adam Tjoelker
• Rachel Wade
• Jameka Wiggins
• Tyler Young
• Alexis Zickafoose

2022 - 2023 Academic Year

Funding Period #1 (Conference occurring July - September, 2022)

• Ryan Wagner – School of Environment and Natural Resources
• Daniel Ma – Civil, Environmental and Geodetic Engineering
• Bhumi Patel – Department of Dance
• Faiz Nisar Khan – Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
• Ellia La – Food Science & Technology
• Brittany Fischer – Veterinary Preventive Medicine
• Keira Hambrick – English
• Valentina Pita Grisanti – Nutrition
• Manisha Nagpal – Educational Psychology

Funding Period #2 (Conference occurring October - December, 2022)

• Megan Co – Biomedical Engineering
• Alissa Geisse – Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology
• Chelsea Gilbert – Educational Studies
• Cemantha Lane – Biomedical Engineering
• Siyu Liu – Public Policy and Management
• Sheila Martin – Teaching and Learning
• Larissa Mulder – Ethnomusicology
• Morgan Oates – Speech and Hearing Science
• Kenneth Poland – Public Policy and Management
• Lenin Rodriguez Betancourth – Horticulture and Crop Science
• Kyle Sozanski – Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology
• Nina Tang – Biomedical Engineering
• Sydney Townsend – Biomedical Sciences

Funding Period #3 (Conference occurring January - March, 2023)

• Kathryn (Coxe) Hyzak
• Andrea Armijos (Declined Award)
• Aaron Cochran
• Adam Culiver
• Ruixuan Ding
• Ariana Hernandez-Colmenares
• Yuseva Iswandari
• Kyanna Johnson
• Seel Bee Lee
• Jeffrey Lockwood
• Rebekkah O'Beollain
• Atinuke Oduloye
• Onur Ozkaynak
• Shinjini Pandey (Declined Award)
• Lorien Salyer (Declined Award)
• Yitong Xin

Funding Period #4 (Conference occurring April - June, 2023)

• Paige Barton
• Amara Davis
• Paola Enr?quez Duque
• Sam Francis
• Deanna Holroyd
• Chelsea Hunter
• Erick Martinez Rodriguez
• Noor Murteza
• Lorien Salyer
• Mutiara Syifa
• Alexandra Tuggle
• Ana Maria Velasquez Giraldo
• Charlize Wang

2021 - 2022 Academic Year

Funding Period #1 (Conference occurring July - September, 2021)

• Lokaditya Ryali – Mechanical Engineering

Funding Period #2 (Conference occurring October - December, 2021)

• Danielle Boyle – The Department of Neuroscience
• Tamara McCarty – Department of Dance
• Alexandra Tuggle – Anthropology
• Lena Stevens – College of Public Health
• Elizabeth Jergens – Chemical Engineering
• Jessica Rivera – HESA
• Megan Espana – College of Social Work
• Simone Downie – Department of Design
• Sarah Scott – Entomology
• Dongjoon Kim – Chemical Engineering
• Astrid Zuckerman – Psychology
• Kendall King – Entomology

Funding Period #3 (Conference occurring January - March, 2022)

• Natalia Sletova – Second Language Acqiusition
• Emily Bumpus – Educational Studies
• Wonseok Lee – Ethnomusicology
• Wei William Zhou – Chinese Linguistics
• Bethany Martens – Multilingual Language Education
• Yifan Li – History of Art
• Drew Arbogast – Anthropology
• Pinak Mohapatra – Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
• Bethany Frick – Speech and Hearing Science
• Ashby Goldstein – School of Music
• Quianna Simpson – Department of Dance
• Dhwani Parikh – Special Education
• Kevin Fisher – School of Environment and Natural Resources
• Carrie Anne Thomas – Teaching & Learning
• Sandeep Joy – Department of Physics
• Charu Jain – Department of Chemistry
• Yu Ling Chen – Special Education
• Emily Rabung – Environment and Natural Resources
• Jessica Cristina Lemos Motta – Animal Sciences

Funding Period #4 (Conference occurring April - June, 2022)

• Robert Williams – History
• Lindsey Rowe – Language, Education, and Society
• Nate Stewart – Educational Studies
• Nicholas Deems – Neuroscience
• Jennifer Janovick – Food Science and Technology
• Renee Bowling – HESA
• Fenfen Tang – Food Science and Technology
• Elana Schettini – Department of Psychology
• Semanti Mukhopadhyay – Materials Science and Engineering
• Annelise Madison – Department of Psychology
• Christopher Holt – Department of Speech and Hearing Science
• Julia Mazzarella – School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
• Anthony Palmiscno – Department of Spanish & Portuguese
• Eric McChesney – Educational Studies
• Kameron Rinehart – Agricultural Communication, Education, and Leaders
• Jacob Kopcienski – Musicology
• Rebecca Cepeda – Higher Education and Student Affairs
• Coralia Balasca – Sociology
• Chiebuka Egwuonwu – Engineering Education
• Colby Gregg – Agricultural Education, Communication, and Leaders
• Vyom Thakker – Chemical Engineering
• Ho-Chieh Lin – STEM Education