Each spring UT Austin recognizes a select number of undergraduate students for superior scholarly or creative achievement. The George H. Mitchell Award honors undergraduate students who have demonstrated exceptional dedication and achievement in their fields of study. This year, four students received awards of $3,000 each.
All awards are faculty nominated, and the selection committee consists of a diverse group of faculty members.
For this year’s cohort, undergraduate students from across campus submitted their research or creative project in one of four categories: artistic/creative, humanities, social sciences, and science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). A committee of faculty members reviewed each application and selected four from each category to recognize as semifinalists. Of the semifinalists, four were selected to receive the 2021 George H. Mitchell Award.
2021 George H. Mitchell Award Recipients
Jeremiah Abdullah
Award: $3,000
Major: Advertising
Category: Artistic/Creative
Winning Project: Land of Opportunity
Leonardo Di Bonaventura Altuve
Award: $3,000
Major: International Relations and Global Studies & Latin American Studies
Category: Social Sciences
Winning Project: The Collective Promotion of Democracy and Authoritarian Backsliding: The Organization of American States in Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Honduras
Joseph Guidry
Award: $3,000
Major: Astronomy & Physics
Category: STEM
Winning Project: I Spy Transits and Pulsations: Empirical Variability in White Dwarfs Using Gaia and the Zwicky Transient Facility
Mark Simmons
Award: $3,000
Major: Linguistics
Category: Humanities
Winning Project: Reconstructing Proto-Naduhupan Prosody