Past Recipients of the Mestenhauser Student Award

The Mestenhauser Student Award recognizes outstanding student contributions to international education.

2024

Dongting Cai

Communication, Media and Rhetoric; Computer Science, Morris

Vishal Jamkar

Humphrey School of Public Affairs, Twin Cities

Washington Galvão

College of Education and Human Development, Twin Cities

2023

Akash Dhotre

College of Science and Engineering, Twin Cities

Ariadna Mondragón Botero

College of Biological Sciences, Twin Cities

Madeleine Schneider

Department of Math, Science, and Technology, Crookston

Tseten Gurung

Department of Math, Science, and Technology, Crookston

2022

Bassel M. El Mrawed

College of Liberal Arts and the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, Twin Cities

Nisma Elias

College of Education and Human Development, Twin Cities

Rawan Ibrahim Algahtani

College of Education and Human Development, Twin Cities

2021

Alyssa Dougherty

School of Public Health, Twin Cities

María Paz Ramírez López

College of Biological Sciences, Twin Cities

Sumitra Madhuri Ramachandran

College of Education and Human Development, Twin Cities

2020

Amanda Sames

College of Food, Agricultural, and Natural Resource Sciences, Twin Cities

Antony B. Maikuri

College of Education and Human Development, Twin Cities

Kimie Shiozawa

Natural Resources - Wildlife Management, Crookston

Nfamara K. Dampha

College of Food, Agricultural, and Natural Resource Sciences, Twin Cities

2019

Esmira Alieva

Economics and Organizational and Financial Management, Morris

Seyni Mbaye

Humphrey School of Public Affairs, Twin Cities

Xianyi (Sen) Xiong 熊宪逸

College of Biological Sciences, Twin Cities

2018

Melat Weldeselasie

College of Liberal Arts, Twin Cities

Prashasti Bhatnagar

College of Liberal Arts, Twin Cities

Zongwen (Fiona) Wu

Environmental Studies and Political Science, Morris

2017

Camila Fonseca Sarmiento

Humphrey School of Public Affairs, Twin Cities

Karen Soi Choi

Biology and Environmental Science, Crookston

Nick Lee

Carlson School of Management, Twin Cities

Takehito Kamata

College of Education and Human Development, Twin Cities

2016

Carl Zwieg

Carlson School of Management, Twin Cities

Paidamoyo Chikate

Humphrey School of Public Affairs, Twin Cities

2015

Si Chen

Economics, Morris

Yizhou Ben Ma

College of Food, Agricultural, and Natural Resource Sciences, Twin Cities

2014

Douglas Kennedy

College of Education and Human Development, Twin Cities

Khoa Vu

College of Liberal Arts, Twin Cities

Sook Jin Ong

Humphrey School of Public Affairs, Twin Cities