STUDENT SUCCESS
Junior Business Administration major Anthony Breen and junior Biomedical Engineering major Alex Reimert received the Geraldine and Sam Dell Scholarship at Stevenson’ s 17th annual Dell Lecture.
Jubelo Oyeniran, senior Accounting major and President of the Student Government Association, received a $ 500 award at the Maryland Student Venture Showcase in February. He received the award for pitching Kairos Nexus, his innovative social enterprise focused on using technology to match parties in need of products or services in the United States, Nigeria, and beyond.
Two students— Psychology major Jasmine Sheikh and Healthcare Management major Erika Wakpar— were awarded 2025 Student Scholarly and Creative Works Summer Grants to support their research. Jasmine Sheikh worked with Assistant Professor of Psychology Dr. James Schaffer to create an electroencephalography( EEG) laboratory to examine human brain activity. Erika Wakpar used her grant to further her proposal,“ The Threads that Bind Us,” to research therapeutic uses for fiber arts among college students.
Six Chemistry and Biochemistry majors— Cara Guagenti, Mackenzie Redding, Alyssa Reddy, Riley Schap, Chloe Seluchins, and Marisa Sloan— traveled to San Diego in March to present their research at the 2025 Spring National Meeting of the American Chemical Society. The students took part in the Summer Science Scholars Research Program( S3RP) in the School of the Sciences during the summer of 2023 and this trip served as a conclusion to their projects.
Biochemistry sophomore Savannah Lacey was selected to participate in the University of Florida Cancer Center’ s Career Explorations Program in February. The annual competitive program selects up to 30 undergraduates from across the nation and provides them with an all-expenses paid visit to the National Cancer Institute( NCI) designated University of Florida( UF) Health Cancer Center.
Arman Khan, senior Computer Information Systems major, unveiled his smartphone app, RunRec, at the 2024 Brown School of Business and Leadership EXPO. The app had previously received a $ 300 microgrant at the Maryland Student Startup Networking Dinner hosted by the Pava Marie LaPere Center for Entrepreneurship at Johns Hopkins University, and was nominated for a $ 50,000 Maryland Student Startup Grant.
Legal Studies senior Zachary Essamuah was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps in Stevenson’ s Francis X. Pugh Courtroom in January. The ceremony was attended by Zachary’ s family and friends as well as Stevenson faculty and staff.
Film and Moving Image students Riley Frutiger, C. J. Runge, Holt Hendershot, and Ben Kohn were honored at Maryland Public Television for a video they produced for the Maryland Center for Media Literacy and Education.
Alexandra Ginski and Marissa Hyland— both seniors majoring in Medical Laboratory Science— were awarded the Johns Hopkins Hospital Tuition Subsidy for Medical Laboratory Science students. The award provides tuition subsidies for both students’ senior year of study, clinical placements in the Department of Pathology at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and a guaranteed position after graduation.
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