Amanda Bjerke '20

• Fulbright English Teaching Assistant, Germany (2020-2022)
• The National 2020 Future K-12 German Teacher Award from The National German Honor Society Delta Phi Alpha (2020)
• Future Language Educator Award, Minnesota Council on the Teaching of Languages and Cultures (MCTLC) (2020)
• The Sister Margretta Nathe Scholarship for German (2018-2020)
• American Association of Teachers of German (AATG) Mit Deutsch in die Zukunft Leipzig Summer Seminar Grant (Summer 2019)
• Delta Phi Alpha National German Honor Society Membership (2019)

Florian Bundschuh, M.A.

• Fulbright Austria Teaching Assistant at CSB/SJU (2020-2021)

CSB/SJU German Section

• Delta Phi Alpha National German Honor Society Chapter Grant (2020-2021)
• American Association of Teachers of German (AATG) FL-A-CH Mini Grant (2020)
• Goethe-Institut Poster Exhibition Märchenwelt (2020)
• American Association of Teachers of German (AATG) Deutsch macht Spaß Grant (2019)

Valerie Doze ’21

• Truman Scholarship (2020-2021)
• The Sister Margretta Nathe Scholarship for German (2020-2021)
• Delta Phi Alpha National German Honor Society Membership (2021)
• Jackson Fellowship (Summer 2019)

Max Ditzler ’21

• The Otmar Drekonja German Cultural Studies Scholarship (2019-2021)
• Delta Phi Alpha National German Honor Society Membership (2019)
• Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange (2016-2017)

Channa Kalsow ’22

• The Otmar Drekonja German Cultural Studies Scholarship (2020-2021)
• CSB/SJU Undergraduate Research Summer Collaborative Grant Student Recipient, “Using Advances in the Visual Display of Information to Enhance Grammar and Vocabulary Instruction” (Summer 2020)
• Delta Phi Alpha National German Honor Society Membership (2019)
• Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange (2017-2018)

Julia Petron ’20

• Fulbright Austria and Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science, and Research (BMBWF) US Teaching Assistantship at Austrian Secondary Schools (2020-2021)
• Declined - Fulbright English Teaching Assistant, Germany (2020-2021)
• The Sister Margretta Nathe Scholarship for German (2018-2020)
• DAAD Summer Language Grant, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) (Summer 2019)
• Delta Phi Alpha National German Honor Society Membership (2019)
• German Summer Internship Program, Klinikum Augsburg Hospital, Augsburg (Summer 2018)

Ilyse Putz ’20

• CEPLAS Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences PhD. Scholarship - Universität Düsseldorf, Universität Köln, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research Cologne, and Forschungszentrum Jülich (2020-present)
• Declined - Fulbright English Teaching Assistant, Germany (2020-2021)
• The Sister Margretta Nathe Scholarship for German (2018-2020)
• Delta Phi Alpha National German Honor Society Membership (2018)
• Internship WETSCAPES-Projekt, Universität Greifswald (Summer 2018)

Kathryn Weinmann ’20

• Fulbright Austria and Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science, and Research (BMBWF) US Teaching Assistantship at Austrian Secondary Schools (2020-2021)

Joshua Bashore, ’23

• Delta Phi Alpha National German Honor Society Membership (2021)

John Engh ’22

• Delta Phi Alpha National German Honor Society Membership (2021)

Sara Hoppe ’24

• Delta Phi Alpha National German Honor Society Membership (2021)

Dr. Brooke Kreitinger '01

• Delta Phi Alpha National German Honor Society Membership (2021)
• German Embassy Teacher of Excellence Award (2016)
• Fulbright Austria and Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science, and Research (BMBWF) US Teaching Assistantship at Austrian Secondary Schools (2001-2002)
• Delta Phi Alpha National German Honor Society (2021) 
• German Embassy “Wunderbar Together” Campus Weeks Grant (2019)
• Excellence in Advising Award for New Advisors, awarded by the College of Arts and Sciences, University of North Carolina at Greensboro (2018)
• Phi Beta Delta Honor Society for International Scholars (2017)
• German Embassy Teacher of Excellence Award (2016) 
• German Embassy “Germany Meets the U.S.” Campus Weeks Grant (2016)
• German Embassy “25 Years Fall of the Berlin Wall” Campus Weeks Grant Recipient (2014)
• Fulbright Summer Seminar for American Faculty of German Studies, University of Tübingen, Germany (2013) 
• DAAD Research Grant, University of Trier, Germany (2010-2011)
• Graduate School Scholarship, Georgetown University, (2005 - 2012)
• Fulbright Austria and Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science, and Research (BMBWF) US Teaching Assistantship at Austrian Secondary Schools (2001-2003) 

William Lee ’22

• Delta Phi Alpha National German Honor Society Membership (2021)

Oliver Peterson ’22

• Delta Phi Alpha National German Honor Society Membership (2021)

Megan Radermacher ’23

• Delta Phi Alpha National German Honor Society Membership (2021)

Perrin Thompson ’23

• Delta Phi Alpha National German Honor Society Membership (2021)

Sydney Richter ’23

• Delta Phi Alpha National German Honor Society Membership (2021)

Dr. Kurt Hollender

• CSB/SJU Undergraduate Research Summer Collaborative Grant Faculty Recipient, “Using Advances in the Visual Display of Information to Enhance Grammar and Vocabulary Instruction” (Summer 2020)
• Sonderprogramm zur Förderung von Deutsch in USA Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Washington D.C. Grant to attend the AATG Curriculum Seminar for College Faculty (October 2019)
• Mellon Foundation, Becoming Community Travel Grant (2019)
• Mellon Foundation, Becoming Community Practitioner Certificate (2019)
• Delta Phi Alpha National German Honor Society Membership (2018)
• DAAD Study Grant, Freie Universität Berlin (2017)
• Fulbright English Teaching Assistant, Hamburg (2006-2007)

Brittany Elsen ’09

• Minnesota American Association of Teachers of German (MNAATG) Minnesota German Educator of the Year Award, New Prague High School (2019-2020)

Allison McGraw ’19

• Fulbright English Teaching Assistant, Germany (2019-2020)

Nathan Libra, ’18

• Declined - Fulbright Austria and Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science, and Research (BMBWF) US Teaching Assistantship at Austrian Secondary Schools (2019-2020)

Matthias Milchrahm

• Fulbright Austria Teaching Assistant at CSB/SJU (2019-2020)

Danica Simonet, '19

• Fulbright English Teaching Assistant, Germany (2019-2020)
• Declined - Fulbright Austria and Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science, and Research (BMBWF) US Teaching Assistantship at Austrian Secondary Schools (2019-2020)
• Upper Midwest Emmy Student Production Award by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) Upper Midwest Chapter for "Bayt Jadeed: Seeking Home" (2019, co-producer and co-director)
• Delta Phi Alpha National German Honor Society Membership (2019)
• Finalist – Truman Scholarship, Minnesota (2019)
• The Otmar Drekonja German Cultural Studies Scholarship (2018-2019)
• Brandl Scholarship, Jubilee USA Network, D.C. (Summer 2018)
• Jackson Scholarship, New American Services, St. Paul (Summer 2017)

Jessica Thwaites '19

• Fulbright Research Scholarship, Austria (2019-2020)

Benjamin Gjerde ’21

• Delta Phi Alpha National German Honor Society Membership (2020)

Megan Handelin ’21

• Delta Phi Alpha National German Honor Society Membership (2020)

Emmerich Sack, M.A.

• Honorary Delta Phi Alpha National German Honor Society Membership (2020)
• Minnesota American Association of Teachers of German (MNAATG) Minnesota German Educator of the Year Award, Saint John’s Preparatory School (2014-2015)

Katharina Huetthaler

• Fulbright Austria Teaching Assistant at CSB/SJU (2018-2019)

Michael Schocker, ’19

• The Otmar Drekonja German Cultural Studies Scholarship (2018-2019)
• Delta Phi Alpha National German Honor Society Membership (2019)

Sebastian Braunsberger

• Fulbright Austria Teaching Assistant at CSB/SJU (2017-2018)

Matt Beck ’09

• Minnesota American Association of Teachers of German (MNAATG) Minnesota German Educator of the Year Award, Saint John’s Preparatory School (2016-2017)
• Fulbright English Teaching Assistant, Germany (2009-2010)

Dr. Wendy Sterba

• DAAD Study Grant, Universität Passau (1985-86)
• DAAD Study Grant, Ludwig Maximilian Universität, Munich (1975-76)

For an archive of more student and faculty achievements, visit Fr. Mark Thamert's German blog.