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Chancellor’s Scholars named to Campus Honors Program

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – One hundred forty-two freshmen and sophomores at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have been designated Chancellor’s Scholars, chosen for their academic excellence and leadership potential, in the Campus Honors Program this fall.

The Campus Honors Program is a four-year general studies program open to undergraduates in any curriculum. It admits up to 125 freshmen each year, selected from more than 7,000 on the Urbana campus. Up to 20 additional students join the program at the beginning of their sophomore year.

Chancellor’s Scholars participate in small-enrollment honors classes and seminars. Close student-faculty interaction also is fostered by a mentor system, a lecture series on topics of general interest, dress-rehearsal visits to Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, and international programming. Other benefits include summer research and travel grants.

CHANCELLOR’S SCHOLARS

ALEDO – Rachel Hawk

ALGONQUIN – Chad Franzen

ALSIP – Amanda Del Toro, Amanda Potenberg

ALTON – Cody Peckham

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS – Sara Brumm, David Prorok, Jennifer Richman, Katherine Shanahan

BARRINGTON – Nicholas Kortendick, Gabrielle Riccio

BARTLETT – Anuj Chokshi

BEECHER – Ryan Woods

BELLWOOD – Jordan Williams

BLOOMINGTON – John Hamilton, Rikka Skillrud

BOLINGBROOK – Guadalupe Rivas, Hailey Weidner

BUFFALO GROVE – Abigael Finkle, Kimberly Hirschhorn, Julia Komrska, Libby Staples

BURBANK – Abraham Rodriguez

BYRON – Kathryn Lillie

CARBONDALE – Pritam Bhattaraj

CARLINVILLE – Kyle Sottoriva

CARY – Daniel Sheehan

CHAMPAIGN – Erica Allender, Nealay Kalita, Evan Ramos, Thomas Roadcap, Chris Yim

CHANNAHON – Charles Tierney

CHARLESTON – Erin Olsen

CHATHAM – Ross Skelly

CHICAGO (15) – Jasmine Kirby

(37) – Zachary Cleary

(38) – Michael Hyc

(43) – Brendan Moriarty

(45) – Clare Scheib-Feeley

CLARENDON HILLS – Veronica Peterson

COFFEEN – Summer Robbins

CRETE – Emaline Johnson

DEERFIELD – Kevin Brenner

DOWNERS GROVE – Connor Bailey, Margaret Smith

EDWARDSVILLE – Clare Swapp

ELGIN – Quinn Calvert

ELMHURST – Margaret Crotser, Patrick Regan

FORSYTH – Michael Miller

GENEVA – Kelsey Oswald

GLENVIEW – Jason Lin

HIGHLAND – Morgan Fuehn

HILLSIDE – Katie Fenton

HOFFMAN ESTATES – Kylie Petlak

HOMER – Mary Happ

ITASCA – Vassil Mladenov

INVERNESS – Katherine Bora

KILDEER – Gilad Margalit

LASALLE – Lauren Hall

LIBERTYVILLE – Michael Ovassapian, Claire Sheong

LISLE – Juhi Gupta

LONG GROVE – Crystal Chang

MACOMB – Ana Petracovici, Tristan Willey

MAHOMET – Quincy Crawford, Hannah Donoho

MAKANDA – Dominic Le

MASCOUTAH – Alexis Pokorney

MCLEANSBORO – Kyle Summerville

MOKENA – Kelly Twohig, Thomas McGrath, Allison Rymut

MOLINE – Megan Schaefer

MOUNT PROSPECT – Maxwell Colon, Erin O’Donnell, Eric Wood

MUNDELEIN – Kevin Doherty

NAPERVILLE – Anjolie Jose, Sunil Kumar, Madeline Siambekos, Sana Singh, Eric Zhang, Rock Zhang

OAK LAWN – Elizabeth Gacek

OAK PARK – Leann Beckman, Yuliya Semibratova, Samuel Walder

OREGON – Connor Sible

PALATINE – Mazin Bokhari, Katherine Iuorio, Jeffrey Lu, Evangelia Pagones

PARK RIDGE – Ryan Walek

PEORIA – Jonathan Brattin, Leo Jennetten, Saloni Sheth

PESOTUM – Zachary Hoffman

PLAINFIELD – Rachel Misurac, John Ryan

ROCHELLE – John Whitman

ROCKFORD – Alexander Pandya

ROLLING MEADOWS – Marissa Bertrand

ROUND LAKE – Andres Velarde

ST. CHARLES – Katie Reiter

ST. JOSEPH – Olivia Elkins

SOUTH HOLLAND – Nia Mack

SPRINGFIELD – Sara Hadidi

STERLING – Hannah Jakobs

SULLIVAN – Cameron Jones

TINLEY PARK – Madison Ross-Ryan, Alyssa Volland

URBANA – Athena Lin, Madeline Whitesell, Ezra Winter-Nelson

VERNON HILLS – Paige Powell, Emma Schuster, Matthew Tabrizi

VILLA PARK – Muzammil Ali, Shravak Shah

WADSWORTH – Sean Cashin

WATSEKA – Zachary Herder

WEST CHICAGO – Molly McGhee

WESTMONT – Chloe Marshinski

WHEELING – Omar Joya

WILMETTE – Courtney Ackerman

WINCHESTER – Haley Brown

WINTHROP HARBOR – Ashton Townsley

YALE – Cassandra Dickey

OUT OF STATE

ARIZONA, Tempe – Thomas Lin

KENTUCKY, Louisville – Zachary Brewer. Shunhua Fu

MICHIGAN, Bloomfield – Selena Wallace

MISSOURI, Chesterfield – Alexander Noddings, Justin Genova

OHIO, New Albany – Joydeep Ganguly

OUT OF COUNTRY

INDIA, Gurgaon – Devasia Manuel

New Dehli – Rishabh Marya

NIGERIA, Port-Harcourt – Obinna Onyemepu

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