{"id":332162,"date":"2026-05-25T23:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T23:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/332162\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T23:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T23:13:08","slug":"celebrating-uc-berkeleys-2025-26-national-scholarship-and-fellowship-recipients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/332162\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating UC Berkeley\u2019s 2025\u201326 National Scholarship and Fellowship Recipients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Composite of 18 headshots\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2025-2026_wrap-up.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>We would like to wrap up the 2025\u20132026 academic year by congratulating all of the current Cal Bears and recent alums who received nationally competitive scholarships and fellowships this academic year, as well as those who submitted strong applications for more than 30 scholarship and fellowship programs our office supports.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Scholarship Recipients (pictured left to right, top to bottom):<\/p>\n<p>Astronaut Scholarship<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/scholarships.berkeley.edu\/scholars\/zachary-cooper\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Zachary Cooper<\/a> (\u201927, Molecular and Cell Biology\/Business Administration)<\/p>\n<p>CBYX<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/scholarships.berkeley.edu\/scholars\/anna-lieggi\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anna Lieggi<\/a> (\u201926, Political Science\/Global Studies)<\/p>\n<p>Churchill Scholarship<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/scholarships.berkeley.edu\/scholars\/carolyn-nguyen-3\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carolyn Nguyen<\/a> (\u201926, Molecular and Cell Biology\/Business Administration)<\/p>\n<p>Critical Language Scholarship<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/scholarships.berkeley.edu\/scholars\/aidan-chan\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aidan Morgan Chan<\/a> (\u201926, Economics\/Statistics\/Linguistics)<\/p>\n<p>Goldwater Scholarship<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/scholarships.berkeley.edu\/scholars\/arul-banerjea\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arul Banerjea<\/a> (\u201927, Bioengineering\/Molecular &amp; Cellular Biology)<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/scholarships.berkeley.edu\/scholars\/kavish-kondap\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kavish Kondap<\/a> (\u201928, Electrical Engineering\/Computer Science)<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/scholarships.berkeley.edu\/scholars\/devon-krish\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Devon Krish<\/a> (\u201927, Bioengineering\/EECS)<\/p>\n<p>Hertz Fellowship<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/scholarships.berkeley.edu\/scholars\/tyler-hou\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tyler Hou<\/a> (\u201926, Math\/Computer Science)<\/p>\n<p>Knight-Hennessy Scholarship<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/scholarships.berkeley.edu\/scholars\/dan-zhu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Dan Zhu<\/a> (\u201823, Data Science\/Business Administration)<\/p>\n<p>Princeton in Asia<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/scholarships.berkeley.edu\/scholars\/carina-tu\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carina Tu<\/a> (\u201926, Public Health\/Integrative Biology)<\/p>\n<p>Schwarzman Scholarship<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/scholarships.berkeley.edu\/scholars\/sydney-roberts\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney Roberts<\/a> (\u201924, Political Science\/African American Studies)<\/p>\n<p>Soros Scholarship<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/scholarships.berkeley.edu\/scholars\/su-kim\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Su Kim<\/a> (\u201918, Geography)<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/scholarships.berkeley.edu\/scholars\/vivasvan-vykunta\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vivasvan Vykunta<\/a> (\u201920, MCB)<\/p>\n<p>Strauss Scholarship<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/scholarships.berkeley.edu\/scholars\/kristie-moore-2\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kristie Moore<\/a> (\u201927, Global Studies)<\/p>\n<p>Udall Scholarship<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/scholarships.berkeley.edu\/scholars\/bella-santos\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bella Santos<\/a> (\u201927, Conservation and Resource Studies\/Public Policy)<\/p>\n<p>Voyager Scholarship<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/scholarships.berkeley.edu\/scholars\/annabel-gensler\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Annabel Gensler<\/a> (\u201827, Political Science)<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/scholarships.berkeley.edu\/scholars\/janessa-reyes\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Janessa Reyes<\/a> (\u201827, Asian American\/Asian Diaspora Studies)<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/scholarships.berkeley.edu\/scholars\/vinaya-sivakumar\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vinaya Sivakumar<\/a> (\u201927, Cognitive Science\/Interdisciplinary Studies)<\/p>\n<p>UC Berkeley\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/scholarships.berkeley.edu\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">National Scholarships &amp; Experiential Fellowships Office<\/a> facilitates the institutional endorsement process for nationally competitive scholarships and fellowships. We provide advising and support to UC Berkeley students and alums pursuing these opportunities and other select programs.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not too early to start thinking about applying for scholarships for the 2026\u20132027 academic year. You can learn more and sign up for our Scholarships Newsletter <a href=\"http:\/\/scholarships.berkeley.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Again, congratulations to all, and happy summer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We would like to wrap up the 2025\u20132026 academic year by congratulating all of the current Cal Bears&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-332162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}