When he was in seventh grade, Cuauhtémoc Cruz Herrera (Mexico, UWC-USA, Macalester ’19) discovered a passion for math—and that kindled a life’s goal “of improving the quantity and quality of educational opportunities for all students,” he writes, “especially public-school students like me.”
As she researches China’s green investments in the Middle East for her master’s thesis as a Schwarzman Scholar at China’s Tsinghua University, Aya Al-Shakarchi (Iraq, UWC Robert Bosch College, Concordia ’23) is looking toward the years just ahead.
Brandon Villalta Lopez (Nicaragua/Costa Rica, UWC Changshu China, Bates ’25) isn’t afraid to perform before an audience—or to examine mysteries of the universe.
After graduating from Ringling College in 2016 with a degree in computer animation, Vladimir Stanishevskii (Russia, UWC Adriatic) returned with his family to Ringling to “teach animation with a kind heart.”
Rojay Robert Bryan (Jamaica, UWC Southeast Asia, Bennington College ’22) chose to matriculate to Bennington because of its open curriculum, and the freedom to design his own path of study. That allowed him to combine his interests in policy, agriculture, and sustainability.
Our co-founder Phil Geier was awarded an honor degree by St. Olaf College at this year’s Honors Day Convocation. Geier was on hand to receive the degree and deliver remarks.
Connecticut College senior Sophie Demaisy ’24 (Canada, Pearson UWC) will travel to Costa Rica, Brazil, Kenya, Madagascar, and Indonesia to explore sustainable agriculture through coffee production.
For the tenth time in the past 11 years, the University of Oklahoma has been awarded the Davis Cup in recognition of its enrollment, the largest in the nation, of first-year Davis United World College Scholars.
Angel-lee Randone (Thailand, UWC Thailand, Rochester ’24) works as a researcher investigating the long-term effects of repeated concussions on athletes at the University of Rochester’s Strong Memorial Hospital.
