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Over 200 IS&T Students Celebrated at Annual Scholarship Reception

Over 200 students celebrated at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) College of Information Science and Technology’s (IS&T) annual Scholarship Reception on Friday, August 24th with nearly $600,000 in scholarships was awarded to first-time winners for the 2018-19 school year.

  • published: 2018/08/29

The scholarship winners include the prestigious Walter Scott Jr. Scholars, UNO IS&T Regents Scholars, the Women in IT Initiative scholars, Scholarship for Service, and a number of other privately funded scholarship awardees.

These scholarships come at a time of substantial grown at IS&T. Over 40 of companies offer IT internships for IS&T students, and students make a median salary of $60,000 upon graduating. Thanks to programs like the Women in IT Initiative, IS&T is more diverse than ever before, with a 93% increase of female students over the last 5 years. Bosting a retention rate of 84% for freshman to sophomore students, IS&T is seeing more and more students enroll and stay. And with programs like cybersecurity, selected as one of the top cybersecurity programs by the Military Times, it's easy to see why.

Students interested in IS&T scholarships should visit: scholarships.ist.unomaha.edu.

Below are the scholarship winners and their scholarships.

FIRSTIER BANKS FUND FOR THE COLLEGE OF INFORMATION SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Zachary Maly

Andrew Griess

Chad Mascari

RICHARD M GOLDSTEIN SCHOLARSHIP/FELLOWSHIP

Tiffaneigh Horton

Robert Foster

CENTURYLINK SCHOLARSHIP

Justin Kloppenborg

Cecilia Saavedra

UNION PACIFIC CYBER SECURITY SCHOLARSHIP/FELLOWSHIP

Brian Diaz-Gomez

Ronald Ramirez

MICHAEL C. MULDER FOUNDING DEAN’S MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP

Robert Ernewein

Derek Day

PROKARMA SCHOLARSHIP/FELLOWSHIP

Rosemary Keenan

Madeline Martinez

CONAGRA FOODS IT SCHOLARSHIP

Connor Lynch

ACI WORLDWIDE SCHOLARSHIP

Yadira Bautista

RANDOLPH A. WALLING, SR. SCHOLARSHIP

Ryan Melcher

Yadira Bautista

Adele Kanley

Joshua Dauel

Addison Gangwish

Hans Gabriello Espiritu

UNO NCWIT ASPIRATIONS IN COMPUTING AWARD WINNERS’ SCHOLARSHIP

Emily Buettner

Sneh Koul

JEAN HARTRANFT HOLTMANN SCHOLARSHIP

Maria Stathopoulos

DONALD C REICHART MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP

Jacob Kirshenbaum

Tyler Davis

Alexander Porter

Uriel Anchondo

FIRST DATA UNO INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY SCHOLARSHIP

William Heller

BUFFETT SCHOLARSHIP

Ryan Melcher

Austin Bailey

Ty Saiyavongsa

Arturo Gallegos-Zaragoza

Ryan Dawe

Roberto Saavedra, Jr.

Colton Heard

Jhovani Perez-Morales

DEAN’S SCHOLARSHIP

Joshua Kelley

Ricardo Diaz

Tyler Loede

Emily Bart

Noah Costello

Benjamin Wesch

Aaron Byington

Justin Grant

Nathaniel Finck

Arturo Gallegos-Zaragoza

Alexander Anderson

Patrik Oliveira Dos Santos

Braden Hawley

Connor Wilson

Joshua Jarecki

Quincy Ellefson

Cora Leypoldt

Nicholas Wordekemper

Austin Novak

Kathryn Williamson

Sheldon McDaniel

Johnathan Harbeck

Lee Yoder

Griffin Knight

Parker Schmeits

ALDA LEHR SCHOLARSHIP

Michelle Julsen

MAS SCHOLARSHIP

Seth Turack

Blake Gulick

Nicholas Walker

CHANCELLOR’S SCHOLARSHIP

Spencer Gause

Benjamin Hourigan

Kate Olsson

Aubrey Wheatley

Castle Anzalone

Anthony Bailous

William Heller

Joseph Krushenisky

Mitchell White

Nathan Betzinger

Kasey Drevecky

Connor Bowden

Jacob Sloup

Molly Arnold

Justin Dyke

Uriel Anchondo

Ben Masten

Alec Ferris

Jakob Tague

Davey Winter

Colton Patrick

Aaron Vigal

Zachary Randolph

Nick Smith

Grace Martinez

Nathan Hohensee

UNO ADV SCHOLARSHIP

Nicholas Wood

Stephen Fugger

Arman Radmanesh

Andrew Taylor

Audra Burton

Zackary Huber

Jaxson Ziemann

Nathan Reinboldt

Sara Stehlik

Christopher Vaska

Eduardo Torres

Parker Bedlan

Justin Guidry

Rain Tamara Intia

Chad Bardwell

Rahat Jalil

Addison Ryken

REGENTS’ SCHOLARSHIP

Jacob Mann

Hunter Hawk

Sarah Eulie

Ryan Range

Steven Silgado

Cynthia Pierce

Ray Huck

Aaron Boone

Cynthia Pierce

Emily Schnepel

Matt Jessen

Jacob Kraft

Caleb Sandall

Chris He

Colin Rixe

Logan Henn

Benjamin Wingerter

Bennett Wright

Christian Nguyen

Amber Mikkelsen

Daniel Freitas

Ryan Melcher

Brady Porter

Alexander Porter

Jackson Eickhoff

Jacob O’Grady

Dash Wedergren

Ujwal Ghatamaneni

Matthew Vavricek

Tyler Davis

Max Swails

Justin Rodriquez

Cailyn Noh

Grace Erixon

Emiline Doerr

Breanne Beutler

Austin Bailey

Austin Nguyen

Alexander Story

Ethan Schula

Caleb Pecka

Frankie Holzapfel

Christopher Galusha

Ashley Gray

Michael Langdon

Martin Nguyen

Byron Moore

Jordan Lofgren

Patrick Murphy

Conner Tomcak

Calvin Shafer

Khan Wan

Dillon Damme

Ryan Dawe

Eamon Hajek-Jones

John Reefe

Uri Herszbaum-Harding

Justin Luce

Travis Kahl

Thomas McCoppin

Nicholas Ngu

Colton Heard

Zoe Larson

Jacob Kirshenbaum

James Brockhouse

Max Hobday

James Ogden

Shannon McCarty

Michael Feldmann

Spencer Zimmerman

Michael Westberg

Cory Curtis

Corey Snavely

Anna Vaughn

Michael Plum

Adam DeTavernier

WALTER SCOTT, JR. SCHOLARSHIP

Brady Fehr

Carly Cameron

Daniel Bresnahan

Tera Maher

Kamryn Pullen

CJ Jurgens

Ryan Chapman

Marcus Benesch

Vidya Uppala

Joe Wright

Makayla Sedlacek

Gabriel Drew

Ottilie Cooper-Ohm

SCHOLARSHIP FOR SERVICE

Aaron Wurtele

Kendrick Urbaniak

Frank Tursi

Marvin Roca Ruano