Civil Engineering, 2026
Aarya Patel
Hometown: Lake Villa, IL (Lakes Community High School)
“I can’t wait to interact with the wide range of diverse people at UIUC and especially the passionate and hard-working Stamps Scholars. I look to take advantage of all the resources provided to me at Illinois and the amazing Stamps Scholars network. I hope to use my enrichment funds to fulfill my life-long goal of doing research in Antarctica and finding solutions to glacier melting and wildlife endangerment.”