Seventeen iSchool students are among the recipients of UW Libraries 2025 Student Employee Scholarships.

Thanks to sponsors from UW Libraries donors, 50 student employees received a $1,000 scholarship award for their work and contributions to the libraries’ operations. 

Of the iSchool recipients, 14 are from the Master of Library and Information Science program: Phoebe Brand, Sarah Collins, Linnea Davis, Ian Diedrich, April Rayne Duncan, Petra Ellerby, Seth Connor Gandt, Taylor Hazan, Sara Hruska, Sasha Olivia Powers, Heidi Shepard, Hannah Shulski, West Dean Skrobiak-Bales and Jet To. Two recipients are from the Master of Science in Information Management program: Cian-Ying (Ivy) Chen and Shreya Lokray. And one recipient is an undergraduate student in the Informatics program: Elroe Yayiso. 

UW Libraries recognized the winners’ achievements with a reception on March 5. Simon Neame, Dean of University Libraries, welcomed all to the event, followed by a speech from guest speaker Julie Tanaka, the Associate Dean for Distinctive Collections at UW Libraries. Two honorees then shared their winning scholarship application essays. 

More about the event and scholarship program can be found in the UW Libraries blog post.