麻豆原创 will honor 56 exceptional students at Founders鈥� Day on Wednesday for excellence in scholarship, leadership and service across various disciplines.
Our students are groundbreaking national and global scholarship winners, researchers, athletes, teaching assistants, residence assistants and leaders in campus organizations, including Student Government, LEAD Scholars and the President鈥檚 Leadership Council. The honorees include transfer students, those from first-generation and international backgrounds and members of the Burnett Honors College.
Aside from focusing on academics and campus causes, many of the student honorees volunteered at hospitals, schools, parks, food banks, shelters, clinics, youth clubs and with many community service organizations 鈥� at times as organizers and coordinators for support drives and campaigns.
鈥淲hen you look at this group, you see trajectory.鈥� 鈥� John Buckwalter, 麻豆原创’s provost and executive vice president for Academic Affairs
鈥淭he students we recognize at our Founders鈥� Day Student Honors Celebration are extraordinary not just for what they鈥檝e achieved, but for how they鈥檝e shaped their time at 麻豆原创. They鈥檝e pursued opportunities, challenged themselves and lifted others along the way,鈥� says John Buckwalter, 麻豆原创’s provost and executive vice president for Academic Affairs. 鈥淲hen you look at this group, you see trajectory 鈥� students whose experiences here are opening doors in meaningful ways and changing the direction of their futures, the trajectories of their families and the communities they inhabit.鈥�
Student award categories highlight new inductees of the Order of Pegasus, 麻豆原创鈥檚 highest student honor; graduate awards for outstanding master鈥檚 thesis and outstanding dissertation; undergraduate awards for honors thesis; and individual college awardees as chosen by the respective college deans. All honorees earned financial awards.
This year鈥檚 37 inductees into the Order of Pegasus mark the 25th anniversary class of top-achieving Knights. The average GPA of the 2026 class is 3.912.
The campus community is invited to attend the Student Honors Celebration on Wednesday from 6:30 to 8 p.m. in the Student Union鈥檚 Pegasus Ballroom. A brief reception will follow.
Here are the students to be recognized.
Order of Pegasus Inductees
- Fatima Alziyad, College of Health Professions and Sciences and Burnett Honors College
- Andy Ayup, College of Sciences
- Megan Bailey, College of Engineering and Computer Science and Burnett Honors College
- Stacie Becker 鈥�23, College of Arts and Humanities
- Akash Hari Bharath 鈥�25MS, College of Engineering and Computer Science
- Swati Bhargava 鈥�25MS, College of Optics and Photonics
- Sanjana Bhatt, College of Medicine and Burnett Honors College
- Griffon Binkowski 鈥�24, College of Sciences and Burnett Honors College
- Ossyris Bury, College of Engineering and Computer Science and Burnett Honors College
- Nico Chen, College of Arts and Humanities and Burnett Honors College
- Kyle Coutray, College of Medicine, College of Engineering and Computer Science and Burnett Honors College
- Allyson Crighton, College of Nursing and Burnett Honors College
- Nyauni Crowelle-Feggins, College of Health Professions and Sciences and Burnett Honors College
- Cameron Cummins, College of Arts and Humanities and Burnett Honors College
- Andrew 鈥淒rew鈥� Hansen 鈥�25, College of Medicine and Burnett Honors College
- Andrea Hernandez Gomez, College of Sciences
- Lindsey Hildebrand, College of Health Professions and Sciences
- Ariana Johnson, College of Medicine
- Sanjan Kumar 鈥�23, College of Medicine
- Kworweinski Lafontant, College of Health Professions and Sciences
- Meera Lakshmanan, College of Medicine and Burnett Honors College
- Abrianna Lalle, College of Nursing
- Ilana Logvinov, College of Nursing
- Hannah Lovejoy, College of Business
- Taiel Lucile, College of Health Professions and Sciences and Burnett Honors College
- Robin Marquez, College of Sciences
- Shanel Moya Aguero, College of Community Innovation and Education and Burnett Honors College
- Gabrielle 鈥淕abby鈥� Murison, College of Sciences
- Varun Nannuri, College of Medicine and Burnett Honors College
- Natalie Otero, College of Business and Burnett Honors College
- Om Pathak, College of Medicine, College of Arts and Humanities and Burnett Honors College
- Pritha Sarkar 鈥�24, College of Engineering and Computer Science
- Jacob Vierling, College of Community Innovation and Education
- Janapriya Vijayakumar, College of Medicine and Burnett Honors College
- Ornella Vintimilla, College of Medicine and Burnett Honors College
- Om Vishanagra, College of Medicine, College of Engineering and Computer Science and Burnett Honors College
Undergraduate Student Awards
College Founders鈥� Award
- Liam Pivnichny, Burnett Honors College
- Antonella Bisbal Hernandez, College of Arts and Humanities
- Jordan Nell, College of Business
- Jude Hagan, College of Community Innovation and Education
- Ossyris Bury, College of Engineering and Computer Science
- Timothy Horanic, College of Health Professions and Sciences
- Sun Latt, College of Medicine
- Abrianna Lalle, College of Nursing
- Jacob Silver, College of Optics and Photonics
- Emily Willis, College of Sciences
- Fabian Rodriguez Gomez, Rosen College of Hospitality Management
Outstanding Honors Undergraduate Thesis
- Edwin Garcia 鈥�25, College of Arts and Humanities, Outstanding Honors Thesis in Arts, Humanities and Creative Inquiry
- Eric Haseman 鈥�25, College of Sciences, Outstanding Honors Undergraduate Thesis in Social Sciences
- Shreya S. Pawar 鈥�25, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Outstanding Honors Undergraduate Thesis in Natural Sciences
- Andrea C. Molero Perez 鈥�25, College of Medicine, Outstanding Honors Undergraduate Thesis in Health Sciences
- Nicholas Rose 鈥�25, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Outstanding Honors Thesis in Engineering and Technology
Graduate Student Awards
Outstanding Dissertation
- Jessica Moon 鈥�25PhD, College of Health Professions and Sciences
- Michael Pierro 鈥�20 鈥�23MS 鈥�25PhD, College of Engineering and Computer Science
