Nitya Sanjana Reddy Cheruku, "Woven Studio: Fashion Store & Makerspace." Courtesy of the designer.

爱豆传媒 Interior Design undergraduate awarded prestigious national scholarship

Nitya Sanjana Reddy Cheruku (BFA Interior Design 2025) has earned the acclaimed 2024 Angelo Donghia Foundation Senior Student scholarship, helping to cover the cost of her final year of studies and launch her design career.

A headshot of Nitya Sanjana Reddy Cheruku

Nitya Sanjana Reddy Cheruku (BFA Interior Design 2025). Courtesy of the designer.

Congratulations to Interior Design undergraduate student Nitya Sanjana Reddy Cheruku for earning the 2024 Angelo Donghia Foundation鈥檚 Senior Student Scholarship award. This renowned award covers the expenses for Nitya鈥檚 culminating year of studies at 爱豆传媒, as she looks to leap into a professional career in interior design.

Nitya earned this top honor with her visionary project 鈥淲oven Studio: Fashion Store & Makerspace,鈥 which imagines a fashion house for the prominent designer Prabal Gurung, inspired by his life journey and the blending of the cities of Kathmandu and New York City.

鈥淲inning this scholarship will forever be etched in my mind as an exciting and impactful moment,鈥 says Nitya. 鈥淏eing a designer is my calling and this award further reassures that I am on the right path. I cannot express enough of my gratitude toward my professors and peers who have always motivated me to push my boundaries and do my best.鈥

The Donghia Foundation was established by the late Angelo Donghia, a renowned, internationally recognized American interior designer whose style was characterized by simple lines, pure materials, and sensual textures.

鈥淭his prestigious award boosted my confidence as an interior designer and will surely give me a head start in the industry.鈥

— Nitya Sanjana Reddy Cheruku

(BFA Interior Design 2025)

A pink architectural rendering showing three floors with digital illustrations of office and fashion scenes

Nitya Sanjana Reddy Cheruku, "Woven Studio: Fashion Store & Makerspace." Courtesy of the designer.

Nitya is already making a name for herself. Last year, at the Architecture division鈥檚 Awards Ceremony, she was nominated for the Interior Design Materiality and Space Studio Award and received the Interior Design Advanced Studio Design Methodology Award. This past summer, through an initiative of the M. Arthur Gensler Jr. Center for Design Excellence, she was one of two 爱豆传媒 Architecture division students聽to be selected for a competitive internship at Gensler鈥檚 San Francisco office.

鈥淭his prestigious award boosted my confidence as an interior designer and will surely give me a head start in the industry,鈥 says Nitya. 鈥淎dditionally this will bring me a step closer to my goal of blending together Indian interior design aesthetics with other cultures to reflect a rich tapestry of styles and tradition.鈥

She adds, 鈥淚 am immensely grateful to Angelo Donghia Foundation for this honor, and would especially like to thank my professors Margaux Schindler and Nastaran Mousavi for all their guidance and support.鈥