Students Give Thanks for College Scholarship

At the 2024 Scholarship Reception, the University of Arizona College of Engineering honored undergraduate and graduate students for their exceptional accomplishments and thanked those who supported them.

Angel Hernandez, a BME senior, was one of more than 500 undergraduate students supported with a donor-funded college scholarship this year. Hernandez expressed gratitude for receiving the Tulsi Memorial Scholarship during his speech. 

Hernandez is a first-generation Latino student with a passion for neuro-engineering – a novel field of research that combines the disciplines of neuroscience and engineering.

To prepare for a future career in neuro-engineering, Hernandez chose to major in BME. Hernandez explained, “Biomedical engineering will help give me those technical and research skills I need for graduate school.”

Hernandez will follow his passion to a biomedical science doctoral program after graduation. And like many of the other undergraduates at the reception, Hernandez shines inside and outside the classroom.

“These financial awards have not only met my concerns of homelessness or lack of food, but they also gave me significantly more time to get involved in research and discover my second passion – assisting others and mentoring undergraduates like me who are underrepresented in STEM,” Hernandez said.