December 18, 2023
Year in review: student achievements
In 2023, many Providence College students were recognized for their success. Here are a few to celebrate:
Samantha Gabree ’23
Samantha Gabree ’23 was the first Providence College student to receive a Fulbright partnership award for graduate education. The honors biology major and sociology minor from Farmington, Connecticut, is spending two years in the Netherlands, studying for a master’s degree in life science and technology at Delft University of Technology. She was a teaching assistant and tutor for Physiology, a member of Friars Club, and studied abroad in Copenhagen, Denmark, as a junior.
Katie Kudla ’24
Katie Kudla ’24, a physics major and dance minor from Tarrytown, New York, is the third Providence College student in the past four years to receive the Goldwater Scholarship, the most prestigious undergraduate scholarship in the United States in engineering, mathematics, and the natural sciences. She received two summer fellowships from the NASA Rhode Island Space Grant Consortium, presented research at a American Astronomical Society meeting, and visited the Robert C. Byrd radio telescope at the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia. She also spent a semester at the University of Oxford, studying physics and mathematics.
Samantha Furtado ’23, Riley Lusk ’23, and Maggie Sullivan ’23
Three women were named top scholars in the Class of 2023, having achieved perfect 4.0 GPAs for four years. Samantha Furtado ’23 of New Bedford, Massachusetts, was a double major in political science and economics. Riley Lusk ’23 of Pittsford, New York, majored in health policy and management. Maggie Catherine Sullivan ’23 of Taunton, Massachusetts, was a biology major.
Michael McNamara ’24G
Michael McNamara ’24G, a student in the graduate history program at Providence College, attended a four-week summer institute on the U.S. Constitution in Washington, D.C., as the Rhode Island recipient of the prestigious James Madison Graduate Fellowship. The program is designed to help high school history, government, and civics teachers teach the U.S. Constitution. It includes an award of up to $24,000 toward completion of a master’s degree. McNamara, a history teacher at Ponaganset High School in Glocester, Rhode Island, is scheduled to complete his PC degree in May 2024.
