While its impact is broad, perhaps the Center’s greatest influence is visible through the cadets and recent graduates who have benefitted from its programming.
Since 2016, RCHGS education and activities have enabled 35 cadets, one midshipman, and one former intern to win thirty-nine national or international scholarships (several earned multiple scholarships):

Seven Rhodes Scholarships
(Intern Laura Courchesne UGA ’16, Simone Askew ’18, Holland Pratt ’22, Isabella Sullivan ’24, Gabby Sorrentino ’25, Sarah Cao ‘25, Brandon Tran ‘26)
Three Marshall Scholarships
(Langdon Ogburn ’21, Tommy Hall ’22, Alexis Bradstreet ‘24)
Two Truman Scholarship
(Teresa Kennedy USNA ’16, Brandon Tran ‘26)
One Knight-Hennessy
(Olivia Raykhman ‘25)
One Schwarzman Scholarship
(Nette Monaus ’18)
Three German Academic Exchange Scholarships
(Gabe Beck ’16, Dan Muncaster ‘21, Angelina Pfister ‘26)
Eight Fulbright Scholarships
(Nathan Thomas ’17 [twice], Miranda Bass ’18, Samir Streatfield ’19, Chris Hebert ’21, AnnMarie Moolenaar ’21, Maxwell Myers ’21, John Thomas ’24)
One Southampton-West Point Scholarship
(Georgia Jones ’24)
Four Rotary Scholarships
(Nathan Thomas ’17 [twice], Dan Muncaster ’21, Maxwell Myers ’21, Javier Fernandez ‘22)
One Anna Sobol Levy National Security Fellowship to Israel
(Pedro Santiago Bonilla ’21)
Two Carnegie Mellon Scholarship
(Seth Bolden ’22, Jacob Lapin ‘23)
Seven Stamps Scholarships
(AnnMarie Moolenaar ’21, Langdon Ogburn ’21, Tommy Hall ’22, Alexis Bradstreet ‘24, Sarah Cao ‘25, Hunter Dunnington ‘25, Olivia Raykhman ‘25).
Two RCHGS cadets earned the top position possible at West Point, First Captain: Simone Askew ’18, Holland Pratt ’22.
Martin Beitler Ethics Essay Award
Named for Dr. Johnathon J. Beitler to acknowledge his lifelong commitment to the military profession and to combating social inequality, The Martin Beitler Ethics Essay Award is a cadet essay award for best paper dealing with the topic of ethics or toleration in the profession of arms.
- 2026: Cadet Sean Ryan
- 2025: Cadet Kari Malatak
- 2024: Cadet Brody Medeiros
- 2023: Cadet Alisa Friel-Watanabe
- 2022: Cadet Sebastien Morel
- 2018: Cadet Courtney Dooley
- 2017: Cadet Austin Willard
- 2016: Cadet Curtis Valencia
Harold A. Gottesman ’50 Family Award in Atrocity Studies
The Barbara and Harold Gottesman Family Foundation supports education, scholarship, and initiatives that advance understanding of history, human dignity, and the prevention of atrocities. Through its partnership with the Resnick Center, the Foundation helps recognize cadets whose academic work demonstrates exceptional engagement with atrocity studies.
- 2026: Cadet Maximus Closson
- 2025: Cadet Joseph Manning
- 2024: Cadet Sydney Schimack
- 2023: Cadet Olivia Skelton
- 2022: Cadet Tommy Hall
In 2023, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum granted the Resnick Center, along with other partner organizations, its highest award, the Elie Wiesel Award (2023). The award, named after the Holocaust survivor and Nobel Laureate, is for “individuals and organizations that have singularly advanced the Museum’s vision of the permanence of Holocaust memory, understanding, and relevance; and a world in which people confront hate, prevent genocide, and promote human dignity.” No other center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies ever received this award.
In 2016, a survey of US government efforts to prevent atrocity cited the Resnick Center as a model for how the Armed Forces should develop future programs to educate and train its personnel to understand, detect, and deter future atrocities.
In 2012, the White House cited the Center’s Mass Atrocity Education Workshop [MAEW] as an important advance in atrocity prevention efforts in the military.
