College students receive awards, prizes for writing, research and graduate studies

Students in the College have received numerous honors and awards this year for academic excellence, community and University service, and research projects. Below is a list of students and their awards.

Amos Alonzo Stagg Medal
Nathaniel Hainje

Anna M. and George N. Barnard Memorial Prize in American History
Alexandra Lerner
Randall Williams

Arthur Adkins Summer Fellowship
Aaron Roberts

Asada Eiji B.A. Thesis Prize
Christopher Chhim

Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship
Donald Bungum 
Erin Mowers
Honorable Mention: Jesse Marshall

Beckman Scholars Program in Molecular Science
Carl Brozek
Daniel Houle

Beinecke Brothers Scholarship
Nathana O'Brien

Bernard O. Brown Service Learning Award
Emma Boast
Monica Maalouf

Campus Life & Leadership Award
Lillian Bartenstein
Kellene Eagen
Fatima Fadlalla
Helen Kendall
Angel Ochoa
Sarah Raskin
Andrew Snyder
John Thompson

Cathy Heifetz Memorial Award
Ieda Bispo

College Outstanding New Leader Award
Jacqueline Carrillo
Tsion Gurmu

David Blair McLaughlin Prize
Alethea Lange
Deborah Munro

David Grene Fellowship
Ursula Poole

David L. Fulton Prize for Orchestral Excellence
Tiffany Choong
Molly Hales
Alyssa Mathias

David W. Grainger Senior Scholarship
Luke Goetzke
Zachary Rodgers

Edith Ballwebber Athlete of the Year
Callie Brown
Eva De Laurentiis
Claire Denz
Elweya Elgamal
Hannah Moots
Jamie Stinson

Ellis Bonoff Kohs Award for Orchestral Excellence
Elise Berman
Daniel Boutwell

Elsie F. Filippi Memorial Prize in Poetry
Luke Rhodehorst
Jennifer Tian

Emile Karafiol Prize in History
Derek Bowers

Frances E. Knock Prize — Biological Chemistry
Matthew Biancalana

Frances E. Knock Prize — Chemistry
Gregory Kaufman 

Francis X. Kinahan Award
Benjamin Schonthal

Francis X. Kinahan Memorial Prize (UT)
Katherine Welham

Francois Furet Travel Grant
Michael LaCroix 
Adwait Parker
Karolina Huebner  
Rainbow Porthé
Celeste Moore 
Real Salley 
Eleanor Rivera

Fulbright U.S. Student Program
Nicole Burgoyne
Laura Burkhauser
Patricia Gilbert
Hollie Russon Gilman
Molly Hales
Lana Harfoush
Ryan Kaminski
Jenya Sapir
John Saxton
Kerry Schnell
Lawrence Tymkiw

Gates Cambridge Scholarship
Elizabeth Sefton

Gerhard Closs Teaching Award in Organic Chemistry
Dmitry Usanov
Elizabeth Wiltrout

Gertrude Dudley Medal
Nofisatu Mojidi

Harold E. Goettler Political Institutions Prize
Caitlin Naidoff 

Harry S. Truman Scholarship
Zoe Vangelder

Howell Murray Alumni Association Award
Stephanie Bell
Sarah Bouchat
SJ Cohen
Eva De Laurentiis
Scott Duncombe
Zachary Ergish
Eve Ewing
Justin Fleming
Anjali Gera
Wendy Gonzalez
Grant Gordon
Daniel Kimerling
Hannah McConnaughay
Hollie Russon Gilman
Rebecca Shi
Lindsey Thomson-Levin 

Ignacio Martin-Baro Human Rights Essay Award
Tyler Zoanni

Illinois Geographical Society Outstanding Senior
Jacob Barney 

J. Kyle Anderson Award
Michael Serio 

Jane Morton and Henry C. Murphy Award
Joseph Bognanni
Gregory Gabrellas
Toussaint Losier
Christopher Williams

John Billings Fiske Poetry Prize
Benjamin Shepard

John Crerar Foundation Science Writing Prize for College Students
Conor Hughes
Laura Felley

John G. Hawthorne Travel Prize in Classical Studies
John Laycock

John Haeseler Lewis Prize
Luke Goetzke
Weiyi Ng
Zachary Rodgers

Justin Palmer Prize
Rachel Elizabeth Levine

Karen Dinal Award
Emily Ponder
Linda Smith

Lawrence and Josephine Graves Teaching Prize
Hanna Bennett
Ian Biringer
Chris Conidis
Niles Johnson

Lee Family Prize for Highest G.P.A.
Christopher Cole

Leonard B. Meyer Prize for Musical Excellence
Joshua Thurston-Milgrom           
Anne Heminger

Lillian Gertrude Selz Prize
Jessica Friedman
Chloe Goldman

Margaret C. Annan Undergraduate Award in Writing
James Plank
Justin Schilke
Claire Tolan

Margaret McKenzie Prize in Germanic Studies
Shannon Kirwin 

Maroon Key Society
Kathryne Benesh
David Brent
Marguerite Costich
Ailen Fee
Isaac Freilich Jones
Hilary Fruitman
Claire Gill
Emily Gilman
Anna Gunderson
Tsion Gurmu
Kelin Hall
Jessica Hester
Aryanne Israel
Hannah Jacoby
Luke Joyner
David  Klein
Tal Kopan
Lima Lawrence
Yennie Lee
Angelina Liang
James McAnelly
Kaitlin Meyer
Amol Naik
Christina Perez
Lee Praley
Katherine Proctor
Christopher Quintos
Luke Rodehorst
Hossam Tewfik
Hallie Trauger
Zoe Vangelder
Caroline Weisser
Christopher Williams
Jarrod Wolf

Mary Jean Mulvaney Scholar Athlete Award
Vanessa Pineros
Zachary Rodgers

Medical Scholars Program the University of Illinois
Harry Rosenberg

Medical Scientist Training Fellowship
Arjun Raman
Zachary Rodgers
Danielle Zheng

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program
Jacqueline Carrillo
Jessica Hester
Hilary Johnson
Nicholas Johnson
Justin Shelby

Millard Pierce Binyon Memorial Prize
Anne Heminger

Nancy P. Helmbold Travel Award
Nicholas Geller

Napier Wilt Prize in English & American Literature
Sarah Hetherington
Andrew Jacobs
Luke Rodehorst

Nathan Sugarman Teaching Award in General Chemistry
Lynna Avila-Bront
Kelly Fransted
Pavlo Zolotavin

NCGE and AAG Award for Excellence of Scholarship
Maritza Mallek

Norman H. Nachtrieb Award for Undergraduate Chemistry
John Anderson

NSEP David L. Boren Undergraduate Scholarship
Mary Anderson
Taylor Aylward
Connor Hestdalen
Andrew Stecker

Olga and Paul Menn Foundation Prize
Scott Neff 
Jessica Wright
Jonathan Elias 
Joel Putnam 

Patricia R. Kirby Multi-Sport Athlete Award
Nofisatu Mojidi

Paul R. Cohen Memorial Prize
Padraic Bartlett
David Coley
Ilya Grigoriev
Ryan Johnson
Junehyuk Jung
Jenya Sapir

Paul Shorey Foreign Study Prize
Kristin Dean
Sarah Reeser
Anthony Shannon

PC Bio Program
Fida Abuisneineh
Kevin Dalton
Michael Jackson
Paul Kim
Alexander Muir
Issra Rashed
Jonathan Sellon
Nora Yucel
Wenjing Zong

Perry S. Herst Prize
Jonathan Strysko
David Whitsett

Phi Beta Kappa
Sabahat Adil
Brinton Ahlin
Anna Aizman
Tyler Alfermann
Maren Allen
Susan Allen
Padraic Bartlett
Joshua Baxter
Joanna Becker
Nicole Bell
Kira Bennett
Nishan Bingham
Eric Blanshan
Kathleen Bockes
Miriam Bodenheimer
Esther Bowen
Christine Boylan
Sarah Bramsen
Dwight Carswell
Sam Cate-Gumpert
Yik Ley Chan
Fan Fei Chong
Colleen Christensen
Lance Contento
Gregory Conti Max Corey
Suzanna Curtis
Rosalie Defino
Jenny DeLessio-Parson
Alexander Dewitt
Benjamin Diroll
Mary Dory
Ethan Frenchman
Katherine Given
Shu-Yu Guo
Molly Hales
Joshua Hancox
Laura Harmon
Andrew Harwell
Anne Heminger
Jessica Henderson
Zachary Herz
Zachary Hill
Greta Honold
Drew Hudec
Andrew Hughes
Mihail Ivanov
Gregory Kaufman
Kaval Kaur
Helen Kendall
Jordan Kenik
Nathaniel Klug
Irina Kogel
Tal Kopan
Blake Langdon
Meredith Langstaff
Kenneth Lay
Lip Jin Lee
Andrew Lees
Elizabeth Leiserson
Brette Levitan
Morgan Lindsay
Elizabeth Litchfield
Allison Lowes
Anna MacCourt
Kannan Mahadevan
Jesse Marshall
Jonathan Martin
Seth Mayer
Hannah McConnaughay
Joanna McConnell
Hannah McElgunn
Steven Michalkow
Annmarie Micikas
Zitsi Mirakhur
Janet Moehring
Jonathan Moore
Erin Mowers
Abigail Mulligan
Wai Keong Ng
Kathryn Novotny
Adwait Parker
Benjamin Patterson
Janelle Pisarik
Kaitlin Pomerantz
Ursula Poole
Daniel Postilnik
Eric Prendergast
Aleksandr Prigozhin
Aaron Puri
Andrew Quirk
Lisbeth Redfield
Patrick Rich
Allison Roberts
Allison Ross
Kenneth Rudinger
Stephanie Rumpza
Zoe Samels
Ashlee Sawyer
Kerry Schnell
William Selinger
Jonathan Sensenbaugh
Louisa Shannon
Anna Snoeyenbos
Andrew Stecker
Christopher Sullivan
Hui Leng Tan
Zong Zong Tao
Wee Kwok Jason Teo
Rochelle Terman
Leah Wawrzyniak
Caitlin Watt
Michael Weaver
Aaron Webman
Katherine Welham
Agnieszka Wrobel
Charles Wysong
Massimo Young
Alexander Zook

Physical Sciences Teaching Prize
Elizabeth Beazley
Jonathan Foley
Eric Purdy

President’s Volunteer Service Award
Hannah McConnaughay
Daniel Waldinger

Robert and Joan Feitler Prize for Art History
Kaitlin Pomerantz

Sheila Putzel Prize
Alice Wang

Sigma Xi Elected Associate Members
John Anderson
Donald Bungum
Corrin Clarkson
Benjamin Diroll
Alexander Donovan
Elizabeth Finn
Alexander Fix
Nicolas Ford
Emily Glassman
Luke Goetzke
Glen Hocky
Blake Langdon
Grant Larsen
Joshua Leners
Zhiwei Calvin Lin
Benjamin Lurvey
Alice Mark
Jesse Marshall
Alexander Munk
Brent Parris
Laura Stone
William Sweeney
Vivian Tien
Caitlin Waddle
Noah Younger
Qian Zhang
Daniel Zwick

Square D Travel Grant
Aurora Thome
Elizabeth Cross

Student Marshals
Tyler Alfermann
Kathryne Benesh
Emma Boast
Donald Bungum
Kathryn Casey
Colleen Christensen
Lance Contento
Elizabeth Cross
Rosalie Defino
Susanna Donovan
Alexander Fix
Nina Foucher
Melissa Graham
Thomas Graham
Erin Guinn-Villareal
David Guyton
Kelin Hall
Laura Harmon
Cassandra Harrison
Joseph Herbert
Andrew Hogue
Mihail Ivanov
Luke Joyner
Jordan Kenik
Tal Kopan
Jonathan Kurinsky
Elizabeth Leiserson
Kate Levinstein
Thomas Manganaro
Jesse Marshall
Alyssa Mathias
Annmarie Micikas
Erin Mowers
Amol Naik
Kathryn Novotny
Nathana O'Brien
Adwait Parker
Lisbeth Redfield
Soton Rosanwo
Alexander Stabell
William Sweeney
Zoe Vangelder
Caitlin Waddle
Nicholas Wanger
Tyler Warner
Amanda Wingate
Noah Younger

T. Kimball Brooker Prize: Book Collecting
Elizabeth Litchfield
Aaron Vanides
Elizabeth Davidson

Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship
Bria Matthews
Felix Sanchez
Hannah Taber
Vanessa Tantillo

Theater and Performance Studies Award
Victoria Bartley

Women’s Athletic Association and Order of the “C” Most Valuable Player Award
John Anderson
Elweya Elgamal           
Zachary Ergish
Gabriel Fernandez
Claire Gill           
Nathaniel Hainje
Aparna Hirve           
Christina Hu           
Jennifer Jacobson           
Koryn Kendall                       
Ryan McCarl
Domink Meyer
Nofisatu Mojidi           
Hannah Moots           
Stuart Phelps
Claire Ray           
Zachary Rodgers           
Timothy Walsh           

Wrobel Trophy
Troy Carlson