University of Denver students and alumni have landed nine major fellowship awards so far this year, including five Fulbrights. Those numbers are likely to continue to rise thanks to the efforts of DU’s Office of Scholar Development & Fellowship Advising, which opened last year. “There are hundreds of nationally competitive awards out there,” says Lindsay Lawton, founding director of the office. “It’s exciting to be able to build out this new office at DU. I hope that we’ll be able to support more students and recent graduates applying for a broader range of awards as we grow. “One of the big successes we have had this year is that more students are taking the initiative to compete for these awards, including DU’s second Schwarzman Scholar,” Lawton says. The scholarship, which supports a one-year master’s degree program in global affairs at Tsinghua University in Beijing, was first awarded to Cameron Hickert in 2016. This year’s awardee, Melissa Shambach, is