2011 Award Recipients
Five Northern Illinois University students who excel in and out of the classroom have been selected as recipients of the 2011 Forward, Together Forward Scholarships.
The recipients – Kelsey Borg, Mayra Diaz,Jasmine Land, Justin Larsen and Reneka Turner – will each receive a one-time scholarship of $4,000 for the 2011-12 academic year.
“Honoring the memory of the students we lost on Feb. 14, 2008, this scholarship is one of the most prestigious honors NIU can award to current students,” Provost Raymond Alden says.
“This year’s recipients are stellar members of our community, each selected on the basis of character, service, leadership, academic achievements, intellectual curiosity, work ethic and regard for others,” Alden adds. “In various ways, each demonstrates the true meaning of ‘Huskie pride.’ ”
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2010 Award Recipients
The compassion, devotion to service and thirst for knowledge displayed by the five students lost at Northern Illinois University two years ago will live on through the recipients of this year’s Forward Together Forward scholarships.
The recipients – Deidre Cwian, Michele Johnson, Yesenia Juarez, Caley Lanahan and Brittany Sheldon – will each receive a one-time scholarship of $4,000 for the 2010-11 academic year.
The total of all Feb. 14-related gifts to the university is more than $983,000. That includes nearly $130,000 to individually named scholarship funds established in the colleges and more than $161,000 for the Forward Together Forward Memorial Garden project. Nearly 2,500 individual donors have supported the various funds and projects.
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2009 Award Recipients
Five Northern Illinois University students with strong character, grand ambitions and intellectual curiosity are recipients of the first-ever Forward, Together Forward scholarships.
Deanna Bach, Jacqueline Do, Scott Hudek, Justin Kuryliw and Grace Weidner, who share those qualities with the five students lost Feb. 14, 2008, each receive a one-time scholarship of $4,000.
“This is NIU’s most prestigious honor for students,” Provost Raymond Alden said. “These five are all highly involved, goal-oriented and motivated. They’re devoted to making NIU, and the world around them, a better place. They will carry on the memories and the good works of the five students to whom this scholarship is dedicated.”