Katherine Barymow, a 2016-17 Remembrance Scholar, lays a rose on the Wall of Remembrance during Remembrance Week 2016.
Syracuse University’s Remembrance Scholar Selection Committee has chosen the 35 students who will be the 2017-18 Remembrance Scholars.
The scholarships were founded as a tribute to—and means of remembering—the 35 students who were killed in the Dec. 21, 1988, bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. The students, who were returning from a semester of study in London and Florence, were among the 270 people who perished in the bombing.
The scholarships are funded through an endowment supported by gifts from alumni, friends, parents and corporations.
Significant support for the Remembrance Scholarships has been provided by C. Jean Thompson ’66 and Syracuse University Board of Trustees Chairman Emeritus Richard L. Thompson G’67 in memory of Jean Taylor Phelan Terry ’43 and John F. Phelan, Jean Thompson’s parents; Syracuse University Board of Trustees Chairman Steve Barnes ’82 and Deborah Barnes; and by the Fred L. Emerson Foundation.
Selection Process
Remembrance Scholars are chosen in their junior year through a rigorous, competitive process. Applicants write three essays as part of a comprehensive application, and finalists are interviewed by members of the selection committee, composed of University faculty, staff and current Remembrance Scholars. The $5,000 scholarships are awarded on the basis of distinguished academic achievement, citizenship and service to the community. Nearly half of the new scholars are members of the distinguished Renée Crown University Honors Program.
The scholars will be recognized during a convocation in Hendricks Chapel on Friday, Oct. 27.
Additionally, the 2017-18 Lockerbie Scholars, Andrew Dorrance and Heather Mutch, were recently selected. Each year, two students from Lockerbie come to Syracuse for a year of study through the Syracuse-Lockerbie Scholarships, jointly funded by Syracuse University and the Lockerbie Trust.
The 2017-18 Remembrance Scholars, their hometowns, colleges and majors are:
• Zainab Abdali of Houston, Texas, an English and textual studies and mathematics major in the College of Arts and Sciences;
• Ali Abdullah of Ewing, New Jersey, a biology major in the College of Arts and Sciences;
• Alex Alvarez of Caguas, Puerto Rico, a Latino-Latin American studies major in the College of Arts and Sciences and a television, radio and film major in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications;
• Cierra Britton of Basking Ridge, New Jersey, a political science major in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs;
• Madeleine Buckley of Owings, Maryland, a magazine major in the Newhouse School and policy studies major in the College of Arts and Sciences and Maxwell School;
• Elissa Candiotti of Hewlett, New York, a broadcast and digital journalism major in the Newhouse School;
• Kathryn Cassidy of Framingham, Massachusetts, a history major in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School, social studies education major in the College of Arts and Sciences and School of Education, and Spanish language, literature and culture major in the College of Arts and Sciences;
• Tori Cedar of Hazlet, New Jersey, a communications sciences and disorders and psychology major in the College of Arts and Sciences;
• Bryan Cereijo of Hialeah, Florida, an international relations major in the College of Arts and Sciences and Maxwell School and a photography major in the Newhouse School;
• Katherine Conti of Erie, Pennsylvania, an international relations major in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School;
• Ricky Diep of Quincy, Massachusetts, a systems and information science major in the College of Engineering and Computer Science;
• Jacob Gedetsis of Cleveland, Ohio, an English and textual studies major in the College of Arts and Sciences and newspaper and online journalism major in the Newhouse School;
• Amya Tulipe Hosenn of Boston, Mass. and Dhaka, Bangladesh, a political science major in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School;
• Kylie Kerker of Snohomish, Washington, a biology and neuroscience major in the College of Arts and Sciences;
• Tessa Latrenta of Colts Neck, New Jersey, an advertising major in the Newhouse School;
• Raymond Levine of Erie, Pennsylvania, a policy studies and political science major in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School;
• Madeline Lorang of Bigfork, Montana, a geography major in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School and citizenship and civic engagement major in the Maxwell School;
• Leonardo Marino of Pulaski, New York, a linguistic studies major in the College of Arts and Sciences and music composition major in the College of Visual and Performing Arts;
• Joshua McMaster of Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, a computer art and animation major in the College of Visual and Performing Arts;
• Kelsey Montondo of Depew, New York, a public health major in the Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics;
• Evanna Ojeda of Miami, Florida, an international relations and political science major in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School;
• Jacqueline Page of Potomac, Maryland, an international relations major in the College of Arts and Sciences and Maxwell School and television, radio and film major in the Newhouse School;
• Anjana Pati of Millstone Township, New Jersey, a neuroscience and psychology major in the College of Arts and Sciences;
• Kennedy Patlan of Fort Worth, Texas, an advertising major in the Newhouse School, a citizenship and civic engagement major in the Maxwell School, and a women’s and gender studies major in the College of Arts and Sciences;
• Justine Paul of Ashland, Pennsylvania, a bioengineering major in the College of Engineering and Computer Science;
• Megan Phan of Sylmar, California, a chemistry and neuroscience major in the College of Arts and Sciences;
• Kiran Ramsey of Indianapolis, Indiana, an information management and technology major in the School of Information Studies;
• Hannah Rebar of Hilton, New York, a bioengineering major in the College of Engineering and Computer Science;
• Brittany Reed of Rexford, New York, a bioengineering major in the College of Engineering and Computer Science;
• Bronte Schmit of Syracuse, New York, a magazine major in the Newhouse School;
• Marisa Torelli Pedevska of New York, New York, a television, radio and film major in the Newhouse School;
• Xintong Wang of Handan, China, an applied mathematics major in the College of Arts and Sciences and an economics major in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School;
• Erin Welsh of Clarence, New York, a political science major in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School;
• Melissa Wherry of East Windsor, New Jersey, a psychology major in the College of Arts and Sciences and studio arts major in the College of Visual and Performing Arts; and
• Sudan Zhang of Queens, New York, an information management and technology major in the School of Information Studies and marketing management major in the Whitman School of Management.
