2024 Photo Contest Winners
Cityscapes & Landscapes
Winner
Name: Julia Schiavoni
Class Year: 2025
Major: Biochemistry
Study Abroad Program: Health in Mountain Communities
Caption: The Dolomites Stallion
Location of Photo: Borca Di Cadore, Italy
Time of Photo: Summer 2023
Second Place
Name: Elizabeth Garijo-Garde
Class Year: 2024
Major: Music and Public Health
Study Abroad Program: IES Abroad Vienna
Caption: Reflections of Viennese Extravagance
Location of Photo: Karlskirche (Wien, Austria)
Time of Photo: Summer 2023
Let's Be Real
Winner
Name: Christine Bednarzh
Class Year: 2024
Major: Neuroscience and Business
Study Abroad Program: DIS Copenhagen
Caption: Matterhorn is one of the tallest peaks in Zermatt, Switzerland and you can find an image of this peak on the Toblerone candy bar. Shortly after this BeReal was taken, and I paraglided off the mountain!
Location of Photo: Matterhorn, Switzerland
Time of Photo: Spring 2023
Second Place
Name: Diana Sullivan
Class Year: 2025
Major: Chemical Engineering
Study Abroad Program: IES Abroad - University of Canterbury - Christchurch, New Zealand
Caption: Me and my best friend :D
Location of Photo: Sheep World, New Zealand
Time of Photo: Fall 2023
Live Like a Local
Winner
Name: Fahad Hossain
Class Year: 2024
Major: Finance
Study Abroad Program: IES Abroad Barcelona
Caption: During our tour in Morocco, we came across a region where they grow olives and there was a family of monkeys. One of them decided to jump on my head and stay there for a while when I got some peanuts to feed him.
Location of Photo: Ouzoud Falls, Morocco
Time of Photo: Fall 2023
Second Place
Name: Abby Strugger
Class Year: 2024
Major: Brain & Cognitive Sciences and Statistics
Study Abroad Program: IES Abroad Barcelona
Caption: Castells (human towers) during Festes de Santa Eulàlia in Plaça Sant Jaume in Barcelona.
Location of Photo: Barcelona, Spain
Time of Photo: Spring 2023
Once-In-A-Lifetime
Winner
Name: Anastasia Thran
Class Year: 2025
Major: Biochemistry
Study Abroad Program: IES Abroad London
Caption: Ice climbing in Iceland!
Location of Photo: Iceland
Time of Photo: Fall 2023
Second Place
Name: Julia Schiavoni
Class Year: 2025
Major: Biochemistry
Study Abroad Program: Health in Mountain Communities
Caption: Dolomite Double Rainbow
Location of Photo: Borca Di Cadore, Italy
Time of Photo: Summer 2023
Putting the Study in Study Abroad
Winner
Name: Aditi Jasapera
Class Year: 2025
Major: Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Study Abroad Program: ROC Galapagos
Caption: Field Observations in an Amazonian oxbow lake.
Location of Photo: Tiputini Biodiversity Station, the Amazon Rainforest, Ecuador
Time of Photo: Fall 2023
Second Place
Name: Hannah Grable
Class Year: 2024
Major: History
Study Abroad Program: Smith's Island Archeology Field School (SIAP)
Caption: Selfie from the Smith's Island field site with a randomly found cow jaw!
Location of Photo: Smith's Island, Bermuda
Time of Photo: Summer 2023