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Award Categories

Honorary Degrees

  • Steven S. Fischman ‘63, doctor of law, presented by Roy T. Wortman Professor of History Wendy Singer
  • Joshua Thomas Radnor ’96, doctor of fine arts, presented by Professor Emeritus of American Studies Peter M. Rutkoff
  • Karen Buchwald Wright P’05, '09, doctor of humane letters, presented by Professor Emerita of Sociology Jan E. Thomas

Trustee Teaching Excellence Awards

  • Charles P. McIlvaine Professor of English Adele Davidson (senior award)
  • Associate Professor of Psychology Margaret Stevenson (junior award)

Fellowships and Awards

Critical Language Study Award

  • Sam Bowden '24
  • Alternate: Mylena Gorig Steiner '25

Henry G. Dalton Fellowship in American Studies

Lauryn Knight Rauschenberger '24

Fulbright Fellowship

  • Julia Irene Waner Conner '24, Taiwan
  • Claire Elizabeth Haynes '23, Taiwan
  • Madeline Kwasnick '24, Colombia
  • Niccolo Comini '24, Spain (alternate)
  • Ashita Wagh' 24, Mexico (alternate)

A complete list of names and country assignments of Fulbright winners will be included in the Commencement program for 2024.

James C. Gaither Junior Fellowship

Sam Bowden '24

Barry M. Goldwater Excellence in Education Scholarship

  • Dominick Frost ’26
  • Rachael Elizabeth Tomasko '25 

The Elmer A. Graham Endowed Scholarship

Khue B. Tran '25

National Collegiate Athletic Association Postgraduate Award

  • Joe Boesel '23
  • Mart Edgar Niehoff '23

The Jess Willard Falkenstine Award

  • Sophia Jaqueline Schmitz '24
  • Israel Zavaleta '24

The North Coast Athletic Conference Scholar-Athlete Award

  • Madeleine Garner '24
  • Malcolm Gaynor '24

The National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program

  • Freya Beinart '24
  • Phillip Diamond '24

Departmental Prizes

African Diaspora Studies

The Allen B. Ballard Prize

Clinton Adu Gyamfi '25

American Studies

The William B. Scott Award

Sydney Thaler '24

Anthropology

The Margaret Mead Award

Maya Schwingel '24

Art

The Robert H. Hallstein Memorial Award in Art

  • Gracey Alley '24
  • Dani Buch '24
  • Jackson Oberhauser '24

The Peterson Prize in Art

Sydney McCallie '24

Art History

The Richard Kingan Liggitt Memorial Award in Art History

  • Brit Hyde '24
  • Lindsey Kieran Nef '24

Biology 

The Robert Bowen Brown Jr. Prize

Omar Jaroslav Morosse '24

The Dorothy E. and Thomas C. Jegla Prize

  • Sebastian Jones '26
  • Maggie Potter '26

The Maxwell Elliot Power Prize

  • Adrian Lee '25
  • Zhiyu Song '24

Chemistry 

The Chemical Rubber Company Chemistry Achievement Award

  • Jenna Ray '27
  • Isabella Chloe Thompson '27

The Carl Djerassi Award in Chemistry

  • Chevaugn Phillip Campbell '24
  • Henry Chanu Kotkin '24

The Gordon L. Johnson Research Prize

Victoria Osborne '24

Classics 

The George L. Brain Prize

Sara Nicole Landon '24

The Carl Diehl Prize 

Nadya Matish '27 (Greek)
Olivia Braun '27 (Latin)

Economics 

The Paul Titus Economics Prize

  • Tucker James Fulton '24
  • Noah Adam Hargrove '24

English 

The Robert Daniel Memorial Scholarship

  • Sara Carmichael '25
  • Jaden "JStew"’ Stewart '25

The English Junior Prize

Madi Hofstetter '25
Kathleen Turk '25

The Denham Sutcliffe Memorial Award

  • Sam Bowden '24
  • Ocean Wei '24

The Philip Wolcott Timberlake Senior Prize

Rebecca Renner '24

Environmental Studies 

Environmental Studies Outstanding Senior Award

  • Liz Navratil '24
  • Bryn Savidge '24

Gender and Sexuality Studies

The Molly R. Hatcher Prize in Gender and Sexuality Studies

Kathleen Turk '25

History 

The Robert L. Baker Memorial Prize

Raya Kenney '24

The Alan G. Goldsmith Memorial Prize

  • Nika Cooper '24
  • Elizabeth Redmond '25

The Curtis A. Seichter Award

William Michael Gerhardinger '24

Integrated Program in Humane Studies 

The Richard F. Hettlinger Award

Devon Turner '24

International Studies 

The International Studies Award

Madeline Kwasnick '24

Latino/a Studies

The Christopher E. Schmidt-Nowara Latino Studies Award

Mia Isabella Huerta '25

Mathematics 

The Reginald B. Allen Prize

  • Phillip Diamond '24
  • Braden Yeshe Zeman '24

The J. R. Butz Mathematics Prize

  • Jimmy Baker '26
  • Katherine Hayoung Choi '27

The Solomon R.S. Kasper Prize

  • Malcolm Gaynor '24
  • Noah Adam Hargrove '24

Modern Languages and Literatures  

The Arabic Prize

Kate Whipple '24

The Thomas Au '69 and Jack Au '73 Chinese Prize

Amelia Chung '26

The Edward Harvey Prize in French

Louis Sandford Schirmer '24

The Charles Singer Williams Prize in French

Anna Fahey '24

The Sigrid Lanzrath Memorial Prize in German

Nika Cooper '24

The Italian Prize

Oliver Henry Chetlin '24

The Japanese Prize

Valerie Kakos '24

The Natalia Olshanskaya Scholarship in Russian Studies

Robin Pratt '26

The Russian Prize

Sam Bowden '24

The Spanish Prize

Madeline Kwasnick '24

Music  

The Gabriel A. Ben-Meir Senior Award in Music

  • Theodore Runyan Schwamm '24
  • Hemmi Song '24

The Thomas B. and Mary M. Greenslade Award in Music Performance

  • Eli Hiton '23
  • Samuel Rabieh '25

The Kathleen "Kay" Locke Community Service Prize in Music

  • Kyle Kelley '25
  • Khue B. Tran '25

Neuroscience

The Jon L. Williams Prize

Yana Honcharuk '24

The Harry Itagaki Award for Excellence in Neuroscience

Sophia Knaysi '24

Philosophy 

The Virgil C. Aldrich Prize

Lucas Dunst '24

Physics 

The Elbe H. Johnson Prize

  • Owen Brown '27
  • Calista Pearlstone '27

Political Science 

The John Chesnut Memorial Prize

  • Ben Gimbel '24
  • Marco Jacimovicc '24

Psychology 

The Psychology Award for Outstanding Service

Lucy Davis Scott '24

The Jeffrey S. Williams Memorial Award for Integrative Study in Psychology and Economics

Gabriela Sara Rachman '24

The Wilson Award for Academic Excellence in Psychology

  • Sadie Wasta Gould '24
  • Gabriela Sara Rachman '24

Religious Studies

The Simpson Prize

Ellie Greenberg '25

Alpha Gamma Sigma Chapter of Theta Alpha Kappa Undergraduate Achievement Award

Carly Jessica Kahan '24

Sociology

The Jane Addams Award

Smrami Patel '24

The George Herbert Mead Award

Shelby Claire Goodwin '24

College Prizes

The Chalmers Library Research Award

Zelda Saltzman '24

The George Gund Award

Joseph Ferrari '24 for "Reciprocity, Not Resistance: A Plea to Save American Democracy"

The George B. Ogden Prize

Delaney Marrs '26 for "In Search of the Irish Family Banshee, Her Cry Echoing Across Generations"

The Academy of American Poetry Prize

Marilyn Gates '26, for "World"

The Muriel C. Bradbrook Prize

Benjamin Michael Leonberger '26 for "The Dinner Party"

The Propper Prize for Poetry

  • Ocean Teu '27 for "I've never understood slasher movies"
  • Nicole Wang '26 for "Ghost Town"

The John Crowe Ransom Poetry Prize

Stephanie Chang '25 for "The Sea Goddess, Mazu, Falls in Love"

The Barbara H. Reitsma Award of the Math and Science Skills Center

Phillip Diamond '24

The Ashford Memorial Award for Excellence in Dramatics

Diya Chabria '25

The James E. Michael Prize in Playwriting

Liza Borghesani '24 for "Gutpunch"

The Paul Newman-Joanne Woodward Award for Best Performance

  • Liza Borghesani '24, for the role of Jenny in "Assistance"
  • Jack Winston Teitelbaum '24, for the role of Jeff in "Lobby Hero"

The Dance Prize

Zoe Weiner '24

The Martin Luther King Jr. Humanitarian Award

Yadhira Ramirez '24

The Doris B. Crozier Award

  • Marissa Sun '25
  • Hannah Sussman '25

The E. Malcolm Anderson Cup

Chevaugn Phillip Campbell '24

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