2026 Evening of Excellence Award Winners

We had an exciting Evening of Excellence on campus last Friday. Our sincere congratulations to our amazing students!

Ryan Poehling Award

Anusha Chaudhary and Austin Britton

Evan Coe Award in Medical Geography

Ian Pshea-Smith

Evan Coe Travel Award in Medical Geography

Mohammad Safaei

Anderson Award for International Travel

Tony Nikolovski

Little Family Student Fellowship Award

Michelle Ruiz

Top Published Student Research Articles

Mohammad Safaei (Catastrophes, Conservation, and Conflict), Austin Britton (Earth System Science), Wei Liu (Geospatial Analysis and Techniques), Anuska Narayanan (Medical Geography), Debjani Das (Places, Networks, & Flows), Erin Mariotti (Sustainability and Global Environmental Change), and Md Shaharier Alam (Geopolitics and the Global Economy)

David L. Niddrie Excellence Fund

Anusha Chaudhary

John & Fawn Dunkle Award for Graduate Student Travel

Donal Bissainte

John & Fawn Dunkle Undergraduate Award

Kara Rydberg and Ava Johnson