Undergraduates receive academic grants, awards

The following undergraduate students are among those who have received fellowships and grants for the upcoming year.

Alonzo Stagg Medal
Sean Barnes

Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in the Humanistic Studies
Alexander Bick
Adam Bronson
Samsher Gill

Anna M. & George N. Barnard Memorial Prize
Meghan Healy

Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship
Pericles Abbasi
Stephen Brusatte
Jack Huizenga
Katarina Ruscic

Beckman Scholars Program in Molecular Science
Doran Bennett
Michelle Rengarajan
Joshua Tice

Bernard O. Brown Service Learning Award
Mia Fioritto

Cathy Heifetz Memorial Award
Erika Honisch

Class of 1965 & Class of 1998 International Traveling Fellowship
Ramona Stout

Classics Prize
Dawn Lavalle

David Blair McLaughlin Prize
Ruth Martin
Jesse Raber

David L. Fulton Prizes for Orchestral Excellence
Nicholas Baer Brian Rash Jessica Winter

David W. Grainger Senior Scholarship
Matthew Szydagis

Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Scholarship
Nathan Ilten Albert Nunez

Edith Ballwebber Athlete of The Year
Miranda Leppla
Nicaya Rapier
Korry Schwanz
Stephanie St. Clair
Ann Zimo

Ellis Bonoff Kohs Award for Orchestral Excellence
Robert Guzy
David Malito

Elsie F. Filippi Memorial Prize in Poetry
Thibault Raoult
Alex Bender
Eric Golson

France Chicago Center Summer Research
Lauren Silvers

Frances E. Knock Prize—Biological Chemistry
Bethany Johnson-Kerner

Frances E. Knock Prize—Chemistry
David Strubbe

Francis X. Kinahan Award
Rebecca Christy
Peter Borden
Fay Lamanna

Francois Furet Travel Grant
Corinne Bayerl
Joyce Cheng
Dana Currier
Joachim Haeberlen
Sarah Keller
Yun Kyoung Kwon
Kathrin Levitan

Fulbright U.S. Student Program
Anne Ciechanowski
Hannah Park

Gaylord Donnelley Exchange Scholarship
Patrick Monahan

George V. Bobrinskoy Award
Katherine Hill

Gerhard Closs Teaching Award in Organic Chemistry
Laura Ellis

Gertrude Dudley Medal
Erin Steiner

Harold E. Goettler Political Institutions Prize
Elizabeth Sheyn

Howard Hughes Summer Program
Matthew Holub
Justin McCool
Leila Vaez-Azizi

Howard Hughes Research Fellowship- Biological
Marie Bell
Stephen Brusatte
Brandon Clivens
Rachel Fremont
Dustin Guzior
Ashwin Hampole
Shayla Hesse
Li Lin
Barbara Litzinger
Jan Lui
Eryn McEntee
Christopher Nelson
Daniel Rabe
Brandon-Luke Seagle
Kavitha Selvaraj
Joseph Zapater
Sophy Zheng

Illinois Geographical Society Outstanding Senior
Samuel Smith

J. Kyle Anderson Award
Timothy Rajcevich

Jean Dreyfus Boissevain Undergraduate Scholarship
Marie Bell

John Billings Fiske Poetry Prize
Thibault Raoult
Adam Weg

John Crerar Foundation Science Writing Prize for C. Students
Stephen Brusatte
Bihui Li

John G. Hawthorne Prize in Classical Studies
Michael Levin

John Haeseler Lewis Prize
Ya-Chieh Hsin
Matthew Szydagis

Joseph Stampf Medal
Brian Cuttica

Karen Dinal Award
Jennifer Johnson
Cabell King

Lawrence and Josephine Graves Teaching Prize
Tullia Dymarz
Sharon McCathern
Priya Narasimhan
Brian Smithling

Lillian Gertrude Selz Prize
Amanda Ang

Lincoln Academy of Illinois Student Laureate
Theresa Biesiada

Louis Sudler Prize in the Creative Arts
Yuan Yuan Yang
Megan Corrarino

Margaret C. Annan Undergraduate Award in Writing
Jenna Coughlin

Mary Jean Mulvaney Scholar Athlete Award
Erin Lyons
Joseph Tonna

Medical Scholars Program at University of Illinois
Robert Lurvey

Medical Scientist Training Fellowship
Jacob Basak
Mona Mashayekhi
Evan Nair-Gill
Timothy Sweeney
Gary Wang

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program
Etomgi Chukwu
Alejandro Flores
Michelle Ma
Aniluz Mercedes
Elliott Powell

Millard Pierce Binyon Memorial Prize
William White

Nancy P. Helmbold Travel Award
Nicholas Marinides

Napier Wilt Prize in English & American Literature
Daniel Knox
Monica Miller
Praket Jha Natha

Nathan Sugarman Teaching Award in General Chemistry
Eugene Kamarchik

NCGE and AAG Award for Excellence of Scholarship
Jeremy Fisher

Norman H. Nachtrieb Award for Undergraduate Chemistry
John Parkhill

NSEP David L. Boren Undergraduate Scholarship
Christopher Chhim

NSEP David L. Boren Undergraduate Scholarship
Megan Corrarino
David Maes

Olga and Paul Menn Foundation Prize
Zehra Ahmed
Sarah Frank
Megan Hayes
Thomas Flippin
William White
Kathryn Hottinger
Gabriela Ortiz Gaby
John Tamburri

ORCSA Excellence in Leadership Award
Indivar Dutta-Gupta
Jennifer Littlefield

Outstanding Recognized Student Organization
Allison Hannon
William Segal

Patricia R. Kirby Multi-Sport Athlete Award
Erin Steiner

Paul R. Cohen Memorial Prize
Ryan Reich

Paul Shorey Foreign Study Prize
Adam Crager
Rita Koganzon
Hung Nguyen
Benjamin Tuber

Rhodes Scholarships
Ian Desai
Andrew Kim

Ronald E. McNair Scholar (SROP)
Elisabet Aviles
Scott Baillie
Georgeta Dragoiu
Claudia Echevarria
Mohammed Fadlalla
John Frame
Denise Hill
Eric James
Elana Jordan
Lancelote Leong
Adelle McElveen
Crystal Moy
Sheena Payne
Evelyn Rosas
Stacey Shin
Catherine Smith

Ruth Murray Memorial Prize
Lauren Beitler
Naomi Sobel

Sciences Po Exchange Fellowship
Alexia Yates

Sheila Puzzle Prize
Rebecca Bernstein

Sigma Xi Elected Members
Pericles Abbasi
Bradley Anderson
Jacob Basak
Allison Berman
Ivan Beschastnikh
Vance Broach,
Neetu Dhawan
Christopher Dodd
Khalid Fakhro
Alexander Frankel
Benjamin Freeze
Matthew Gelvin
Mark Gillam
Yevgeniy Gorodetskiy
Igor Gorodezky
Nicholas Heavens
Stephen Heller
Ya-Chieh Hsin
Nathan Ilten
Bethany Johnson-Kerner
Albert Kim
Wai Yip Kong
Nathan Krapf
Vincent Kwek
Elaine Lin
Nicole Lunning
Alexander Miller
Kevin O’Sullivan
John Parkhill
James Pascaleff
Amanda Pearson
Ian Post
Amanda Redlich
Ryan Reich
Christine Romano
Douglas Rubino
Katarina Ruscic
Dimitry Shuster
Mariah Siddiqui
Morgan Stern
Diana Strong
Timothy Sweeney
Emily Testa
Joshua Tice
Megan Toups
Nawaporn Vinayavekhin
Isaac Wasileski
Sandra Williams
Andrew Wilson
Emily Witt

Sigma Xi Prizes for Excellence in Science
James Waters

Student Employee of the Year Award
Samsher Gill
James Shaner

T. Kimball Brooker Prize: Book Collecting
Benjamin Trofatter

Thomas A. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
Vanessa Tantillo