On April 6, 2018, the Uni­ver­si­ty of Iowa hon­ored its Bright Schol­ars of Iowa by host­ing a recep­tion at the Memo­r­i­al Union. The Bright Foun­da­tion pre­sent­ed the newest recip­i­ents from the 2017 cohort with a Bright Schol­ars medal­lion and Bright Sto­ry book. The fol­low­ing schol­ar­ship recip­i­ents were rec­og­nized at the event:

2017

• Eliz­a­beth Folk­ers – Ethics and Pub­lic Pol­i­cy/S­pan­ish/Pre-Law
• Alexan­dra Hum­ston – Envi­ron­men­tal Engineering
• Luz Mar­tinez – Biol­o­gy/Pre-Med­i­cine
• Andrea Mil­stead – Pre-Business
• Alex­is Soukup – Polit­i­cal Sci­ence/Pre-Law

2016

• Romil­ia (Tatiana) Castil­lo – Human Phys­i­ol­o­gy/­Phys­i­ol­o­gy/Pre-Med­i­cine
• Con­nor Chris­tensen – Pre-Business
• Ken­nisha Entsminger – Nurs­ing Interest
• Angela Guer­rero – Nurs­ing Interest/​Latin Amer­i­can Studies
• Can­dy Hey­er – Health and Human Physiology 
• Ang­ie Kalwies – Biol­o­gy/Pre-Med­i­cine/Health and the Human Condition
• Alan (Tay­lor) Ken­wor­thy – Finance/​Accounting
• Phat Le – Phar­ma­cy Interest
• Car­olyn Lo – Health and Human Physiology/​Disability Stud­ies Cer­tifi­cate/Pre-Occu­pa­tion­al Therapy
• Vivian Ramirez – Busi­ness/Pre-Law
• Xinyang (Lyn­da) Wang – Psychology/​Criminology, Law and Jus­tice, Trans­la­tion for Glob­al Literacy

2015

• Aida Aliba­sic – Health and Human Physiology/​Informatics
• Anna Bauer – Human Phys­i­ol­o­gy/S­pan­ish/Pre-Med­i­cine
• Alli­son Chilton – Nursing 
• Andrea Fjel­stul – Bio­med­ical Engi­neer­ing/S­pan­ish/Pre-Med­i­cine
• Mar­shall Gill – Nursing 
• Christo­pher Gre­gorie – Psychology/​Gender, Women’s and Sex­u­al­i­ty Studies
• Sarah Grein­er – Pharmacy
• Heather Kemp – Com­put­er Science
• Geof­frey Mon­tour – Geoscience/​Chemistry
• Sara Ramirez – Phar­ma­cy Interest
• Eliz­a­beth Roach – Ther­a­peu­tic Recreation/​Psychology/​American Sign Language/​Disability Stud­ies Certificate
• Charles Ter­ry III – Sports and Recre­ation Management
• Ange­line Van­le – Human Phys­i­ol­o­gy/Phi­los­o­phy/Pre-Med­i­cine

2014

• Serif Bace­vac – Health and Human Phys­i­ol­o­gy/Pre-Med­i­cine
• Kay­la Bak­er — Psychology
• Rean­nan Bar­low – Biol­o­gy/Pre-Vet­eri­nary Medicine
• Jayme Blaser – Ele­men­tary Education/​English as a Sec­ond Language/​Special Edu­ca­tion Instruc­tion­al Strate­gist I
• Nick­o­las Kutsch – Elec­tri­cal Engineering/​Mathematics
• Tatum Mey­er – Phar­ma­cy
• Kiley Micetich – Nursing
• Kyle Schwartz – His­to­ry/Pre-Law
• Alec Shultz – Accounting/​Finance
• Derek Stef­fen – Jour­nal­ism and Mass Communication/​Sport Studies 
• Leah Waugh­tal – Eng­lish and Cre­ative Writing/​Gender, Women’s and Sex­u­al­i­ty Studies

The event includ­ed remarks from:

• Dr. Brent Gage – Asso­ciate Vice Pres­i­dent for Enroll­ment Man­age­ment, Office of the Provost
• Cathy Wilcox – Direc­tor of Oper­a­tions, Office of Stu­dent Finan­cial Aid
• Thomas Press – Board Pres­i­dent and Man­agers Direc­tor, Bright Foundation
• Mered­ith Dohmen – Direc­tor of Schol­ar­ships, Bright Foundation