College of Engineering students, staff and faculty gathered May 1 to honor more than two dozen outstanding students from the 2017-18 academic year. The winners were:

Outstanding Seniors

Outstanding Seniors have excelled academically, professionally and personally throughout their time at the University of Arkansas. They are leaders within their departments and in many organizations at the university and in the community.

College of Engineering Outstanding Senior

• Rachel Holmer

Outstanding Departmental Seniors

• Biological and Agricultural Engineering: Ali Ezell
• Biomedical Engineering: Alejandra Zeballos
• Chemical Engineering: Phillip Braden
• Computer Engineering: Mark Howard
• Computer Science: Luke Snyder
• Civil Engineering: Vanessa Lebow
• Electrical Engineering: Brandon Dyer
• Industrial Engineering: Rachel Holmer
• Mechanical Engineering: Abigail Hauch

First Ranked Senior Scholars

The University of Arkansas recognizes First Ranked Senior Scholars as students who have achieved a 4.0 on all course work completed at the U of A. 

• Ali Ezell
• Anna Hudgeons
• Luke Snyder
• David "Wiles" Wiggins
• Walker Wiggins

Senior Scholars

Senior Scholars achieved a perfect 4.0 on all course work, including some transfer work.

• Molly Jean Churchwell
• Lauren Nicole Clark
• Brandon Kyle Dyer
• Ethan Joseph Echols
• Zachary James Fletcher
• Casey Ann Gibson
• Olivia Goss
• Rachel Holmer
• Suzana Ivandic
• Justin Jack
• Wassim Khalil
• John E Mills
• Jackson Lide Mosley
• Will Richardson
• Noah Phillip Spear
• Anthony Paul Woods
• Alejandra Zeballos
• Dakota Aaron Rusk
• Evin Spears

Porter Stone Co-Op Award Winners

The Porter Stone Coop Award is given to engineering students who have excelled in cooperative education. It was created by Professor Porter Stone, who was a faculty member in the industrial engineering department for many years.  Professor Stone greatly appreciated the value of cooperative education.

• Clayton Wilkins
• Richard Tran
• Jeremy Meyers

National Science Foundation Fellows

Each year, the National Science Foundation awards Fellowships to outstanding students in STEM fields who are pursuing research-based graduate education. This year, the campus had 4 winners and 6 honorable mentions — this includes current students and alumni.  In total, these students will receive more than half a million dollars in funding.  Of this total, 3 of the winners were College of Engineering students or alumni.  

• Christopher Matthews
• Karla Gabriela Morrissey
• Stephanie Sandoval

Honorable Mentions

• Kinan Alhallak
• Casey Ann Miller Gibson
• Indran Kamalanthan
• Kaylee J Smith

Doctoral Fellows

The Graduate School offers two levels of competitive merit-based fellowships to provide financial support to outstanding incoming doctoral students. Qualified graduate students must be nominated for these doctoral fellowships by the academic unit or department that has also agreed to sponsor the accompanying assistantship.

Distinguished Doctoral Fellows for 2017 and 2018

• Michael Deschenes
• Campbell Dobbs
• Winthrop Harvey
• Jose Carlos Hernandez Azucena
• Abbie Lasater
• Kylie McClanahan
• Karla Morrissey
• Michael Sharp
• Jacob Hickman
• Mark Howard
• Kelby Haulmark
• Richard Becker
• Tanny Chavez

Doctoral Academy Fellows

• John Alumbaugh
• Johnathan Blanchard
• Joshua Corbitt
• Andrew Felder
• Solomon Isu
• Myles Lacy
• Kaushik Luthra
• Olivier Kwinzera
• Robert Murphree
• Colby Reavis
• Xinge Xi
• Daryl Bagley
• Eric Ledieu
• Daniel Hader
• Adedoyin Abe

Barry M. Goldwater Fellow

The Goldwater Scholarship is the nation's most prestigious award for undergraduate students who plan doctoral studies in science, mathematics or engineering.

• Olga Brazhinka

Click here to view photos from the ceremony.