OURS National Scholarships

We would like to wrap up the 2024–2025 academic year by congratulating all of the current Cal Bears and recent alums who received nationally competitive scholarships and fellowships this academic year, as well as those who submitted strong applications for the 35 scholarship and fellowship programs our office supports. Astronaut Scholars – Carolyn Van-Dy Nguyen (’26) Boren Scholarship – Kristie Moore (’26) Critical Language Scholarship – Alexandra “Sasha” Bergseid (’29), Giselle Carreño (‘25), Utkarsh Dubey (‘27), Abigail Klein (’26), Tiffany Mar (’25), Khephra Owl (’25), and Arya Vishin (‘25) Goldwater

We are very pleased to announce that seven UC Berkeley students have been awarded the U.S. Government’s Critical Language Scholarship (CLS), a fully-funded 8–10-week overseas language and cultural immersion program for American undergraduate and graduate students at every level of language learning. The next application deadline will be in November 2025 (for summer 2026 programs). Students in any year of college are eligible to apply! Please join us in congratulating the following students: Alexandra “Sasha” Bergseid (’29, EECS) will be spending the summer in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, continuing her study of Russian.

by Lauren Miller Roxana (Qinhong) Wang, a recent graduate of the UC Berkeley class of 2024, has been awarded a 2025-26 Schwarzman Scholarship. Wang, who studied Comparative Literature and Ancient Greek and Roman Studies in the College of Letters & Science, was selected as one of 150 scholars from a pool of nearly 5,000 candidates. She is Berkeley’s twentieth recipient of the award since its inception in 2013! “Many highly qualified Berkeley students apply for the Schwarzman Scholarship every year, so it is impossible to predict who will be offered