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Student and Alumni Awards

Wheaton alumni and students consistently receive top scholarships and fellowships such as Goldwater, Lily, Fulbright, Rhodes, Marshall, Truman and many more. 

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Dr. Taylor Worley Receives $259,254 Grant from Templeton Religion Trust
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Wheaton College Billy Graham Center Receives $5 Million Grant from Lilly Endowment to Revitalize Rural Churches
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Dr. Shawn Okpebholo Named Chicagoan of the Year for Classical Music
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Wheaton College Awarded $1.25M Lilly Endowment Grant
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Wheaton Student Honored in 50th Lincoln Academy Laureate Awards
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Addison Ream ’25 and Professor of Theology Dr. Keith Johnson Receive Hatfield Prize
Wheaton College IL Alumna Nadia Dervish Fulbright Scholarship Winner
Nadia Dervish ’17 Awarded Fulbright Scholarship
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Alumni of the Year: Chris and Carlene Ellis Ellerman
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2022 Alumna of the Year for Distinguished Service to Alma Mater: Dr. Ruth Lewis Bentley ’55, M.A. ’58
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Caroline Kimble ’22 Named Fulbright Garcia Robles Grantee
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Dr. Christina Bieber Lake Awarded Henry Resident Fellowship
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Wheaton Faculty Members Dan and Lisa Burden Awarded National Science Foundation Grant
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Alumna Arah Ko ’18 Awarded Lilly Graduate Fellowship
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Philip Ryken Named Senior Fellow at Oxford, England’s Newton House
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Athletics Communications Director Brett Marhanka Honored with CoSIDA 25-Year Award
Arian Schmidt '16 Rhodes Finalist Twice

Rhodes Scholar Finalist Two Consecutive Years

Ariana Schmidt '16 | French, International Relations 

Ariana Schmidt was named a finalist for the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship for the second consecutive year. 

Eric Hoskins 19 Global Scholars Award Winner

Global Scholars Award

Eric Hoskins '19 | Anthropology | $5000

Eric will be researching a local non-profit in Addis Ababa for summer 2018 to investigate how it forms local connections and builds and mobilizes capacity in a low-resource context. This grant comes through the office of Global and Experiential Learning. 

Darren Yau 17, Winner of Elie Wiesel Foundation Essay Contest 2017

2017 Elie Wiesel Foundation Ethics Essay Contest First Prize

Darren Yau '17 | Philosophy | $5000

The national contest, established in 1989, encourages students to “explore their concerns and beliefs, their fears and their hopes.”

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Harvey Fellowship

Benjamin Gibson '11 | Political Science

The Harvey Fellows Program provides scholarships to Christian students who are pursuing graduate studies at premier universities in fields considered to be underrepresented by Christians and who possess a unique vision to impact society through their vocations. 

 

Wheaton College alumna Rachel Lamb 12 2018 Harvey Fellow

Harvey Fellowship

Rachel Lamb '12 | Environmental Science, International Relations 

The Harvey Fellows Program provides scholarships to Christian students who are pursuing graduate studies at premier universities in fields considered to be underrepresented by Christians and who possess a unique vision to impact society through their vocations. 

 

Fall 2017 CCCU de Jager prize winners - Nathaniel Perrin

CCCU de Jager Prize

Nathaniel Perrin '18 

British Culture Seminar in Fall 2017

 

Fall 2017 CCCU de Jager prize winners - Nathaniel Perrin

CCCU de Jager Prize

Leif van Grinsven '18 

British Culture Seminar in Fall 2017

 

Michael Chen 16 2018 Yenching Fellow

2018 Yenching Fellow

Michael Chen '16 | Sociology 

The Yenching Program—informally known as the "Chinese Rhodes Scholarship"—is a one-year fully funded global leadership program with a 2.7% acceptance rate designed to provide outstanding young scholars with a broad interdisciplinary postgraduate education that reflects global perspectives.