The Hamel Scholars Program was founded in 2007. It provides merit scholarships and special recognition to exceptional students from New Hampshire who have demonstrated academic excellence, leadership, and community service.
Funded through gifts from Dana Hamel, a long-time UNH supporter, the programs seek to help students develop their full potential and become active, engaged leaders in communities throughout the state after graduating from UNH.
Click here to learn more about the student-created, student-driven Hamel Scholar Task Forces.
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Paige O'Neil |
Karthik Chalumuri |
Jasmine Taudvin |
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During high school she co-founded Down the Line Ministries, which is something she hopes to run professionally as a nonprofit organization after she graduates. The organization seeks to impact the skate, surf and snow sports communities through Christianity. She’s led church group trips in Costa Rica and volunteers as a Sunday School assistant teacher as well as a worship leader. At UNH she hopes to study abroad in a Spanish-speaking country and become fluent. She also wants to formally register Down the Line Ministries as a 501c3, and to be part of the Civil Discourse Lab.
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At Keene High School, Karthik Chalumuri and his twin brother created Students for Hope, a student-led group that raises money and collects donated items for local cancer patients at the Norris Cotton Cancer Center. “We started Students for Hope as a way for us, alongside our amazing friends and classmates, to create a positive impact in our community. It was a project that we started in our living room and with hard work and the help of our teammates, it became a reality,” he says. Karthik will major in statistics and minor in information technology. “I am studying statistics so that I can learn better about how mathematics plays a role in the business world.” |
When she looks ahead to her future, she hopes to be working globally on social justice issues — ideally through art, perhaps as a documentary filmmaker. She says her proudest moment at UNH so far was having her self-designed artistic activism major approved, even though she ultimately decided on a different path. “Taking control of my own education and creating a major for what I wanted to study was incredibly important for me. It also helped lead me down a path that eventually helped me realize what direction I wanted to move in, education and career-wise.” |
