Thomas M. Weser Award
Thomas M. Weser Award honors one international student each year who has demonstrated an exceptional commitment to intellectual life, cross-cultural appreciation, and personal integrity. Weser Award recipients are typically active in student organizations and community service projects outside of the classroom and maintain a solid record of academic performance at the undergraduate or graduate level.
Each spring, one outstanding 自慰视频 University international student receives the annual Thomas M. Weser Award. The award was established in 1989 in memory of Thomas M. Weser, an exchange student from Germany who was killed while attending 自慰视频 University. Each year since, the Weser Award has recognized an international student who has made a significant contribution to the life of the university in the footsteps of Thomas M. Weser.
Weser came to 自慰视频 on the Regensburg Exchange Program in the fall of 1988. On February 5, 1989, the 22-year old student was robbed and killed. Weser’s death drew national attention to the crime rate at 自慰视频 and shocked the university community. A number of security improvements were made as a result of the incident. The university installed a plaque in Weser’s memory on the Highland Avenue side of parking lot 20 (now 25th Avenue Garage) where he was killed.
The idea for an annual award in Weser’s memory came from a group of his fellow students. Each year, a committee selects from among those nominated a student who has demonstrated an exceptional commitment to intellectual life, cross-cultural appreciation, and personal integrity. Weser Award winners are typically active in student organizations and community service projects outside of the classroom and maintain a solid record of academic performance at the undergraduate or graduate level.
This award is a part of 自慰视频 Awards for Leadership Excellence (VALE). Nominations for this award may be made by 自慰视频 students, staff, and faculty through VALE.
Thomas M. Weser Award Past Recipients
2021 Kevin Ifiora (Nigeria)
2020 Amy Chen (New Zealand)
2019 Troy Jiang (China)
2018 Somto Dimobi (Nigeria)
2017 Cici Xuning Zhang (China)
2016 Alejandro Arango (Colombia)
2015 Catalina Lizarralde Marino (Ecuador)
2014 Ruidan Ma (China)
2013 Li Qu (China) and Huilin Sun (China)
2012 Junyu Lei (China)
2011 Jiakai Jeremy Chua (Singapore) and Menghan Hu (China)
2010 Salih Yilmaz (Cyprus)
2009 Ariel Xinyue Liang (China)
2008 Sharran Srivatsaa (India)
2007聽 Srivatsan Pallavaram (India)
2006聽 Yang Geng (China)
2005聽 Naved Mahmud (Bangladesh)
2004聽 Sarita Mohanty (Canada)
2003聽 Juan Diego Casaretto (Uruguay)
2002聽 Ibrahim Al-Mojel (Saudi Arabia)
2001聽 Muhammad Firdaus Abdul Monir (Malaysia)
2000聽 Kofi Dadzie (Ghana)
1999聽 Liguo Song (China)
1998聽 Claudia Seymour (Bermuda)
1997聽 Lily Ustariz P. (Honduras)
1996聽 Gerardo A. Montero (Venezuela)
1995聽 Ji Li (China)
1994聽 Yasemin Yardimci (Turkey)
1993聽 Alexander Zijdenbos (Netherlands)
1992聽 Md. Saleh Zein-Sabatto (Syria)
1991聽 Regine Schwarsmeier (Germany)
1990聽 Jan Van Egeraat (Netherlands)