Syracuse University announces 2025-26 Remembrance Scholars
The university selects thirty-five students annually to represent the students, and since the 2023-24 cohort, students also honor the flight crew and the other passengers who died. Daily Orange File Photo
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Syracuse University announced the cohort of Remembrance Scholars for the 2025-26 school year in a Thursday morning news release.
Now in its thirty-sixth year, the program honors the SU students killed in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988. The university selects thirty-five students annually to represent the students, and since the 2023-24 cohort, students also honor the flight crew and the other passengers who died.
The 2025-26 academic year will be the first time in 35 years that SU will not host two Lockerbie Scholars, which the university first announced in September 2024. The program has historically provided two Lockerbie Academy students with a scholarship to study at SU for one year, but the university has instead proposed a one-week immersion program for a group of students.
The Remembrance Scholars plan activities during the university’s annual Remembrance Week in the fall semester to commemorate the bombing victims. The cohort will also be recognized during a convocation in the fall.
The 2025-26 Remembrance Scholars are listed below:
- Ellie Allen, a citizenship and civic engagement and policy studies major and member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program
- Jacqueline Arbogast, a television, radio and film major
- Rohan Bangalore, a policy studies and law, society and policy major
- Caiyan Bass, a communication sciences and disorders and nutrition science major
- Belinda Chan, a social work major
- Tommy DaSilva, a public health, policy studies and citizenship and civic engagement major
- Nick Dekaney, a broadcast and digital journalism major
- Ava Downey, a linguistics and international relations major and member of the honors program
- Leah Farrell, a citizenship and civic engagement and policy studies major
- Abbey Fitzpatrick, a history and political science major
- Olivia Fried, an international relations and magazine, news and digital journalism major
- Tanishka Gajula, a biology major
- Olutoyin Green, a health humanities, political philosophy and law, society and policy major, and member of the honors program
- Alani Henderson, a political science and law, society and policy major
- Nico Horning, a broadcast and digital journalism major
- Wafiq Khondkar, a biotechnology and philosophy major and member of the honors program
- Edward Lu, a music composition major
- Joy Mao, a policy studies and television, radio and film major, and member of the honors program
- Valeria Martinez-Gutierrez, a geography, sociology major and environment, sustainability and policy major, and member of the honors program
- German Nolivos, a political science and public relations major
- Luiza Owour, a biomedical engineering major
- Marc Pantano, a marketing and supply chain management major
- Annaliese Pillitteri, a film major
- Savion Pollard, an electrical engineering major
- Galen Setzkorn, a geography and history and social studies education major, and member of the honors program
Ethan Shavelson, an acting major - Taylor Stubitsch, a biochemistry and forensic science major and member of the honors program
- Candice Tabb, a civil engineering major
- Nathan Torabi, a political science, citizenship and civic engagement, and law, society and policy major, and member of the honors program
- Jacquelyn Trotman, a retail management and advertising major, and member of the honors program
Anya Von Wolff, a fashion design major - Logan Wagner, a political science, environmental sustainability and policy and history of music and cultures major
- Gillian Weltman, a communications sciences and disorders and neuroscience major
- Ethan Yankey, a design studies major
“Remembrance Scholars, through their academic achievements, leadership and contributions to the campus and local communities, exemplify what a Syracuse University education has to offer and represent the promise of the students for whom these scholarships are named,” Interim Provost Lois Agnew said in Thursday’s release.
