Honors Day 2015

Honorary Degree Recipients

Doctor of Laws
Kurt Karakul, Class of 1973

Doctor of Letters
Elaina H. Richardson

Doctor of Humane Letters
Victoria Wyatt, Class of 1977

Trustee Teaching  Excellence Awards

Associate Professor of Economics Jay Corrigan
Associate Professor of Psychology Irene Lopez

The Henry G. Dalton Fellowship

Eleanore Grace MacLean, Class of 2015

Recommended for Fulbright Fellowship

Johann Maximilian Amberger, Class of 2015
Anna Elizabeth Berger, Class of 2015
Claire Mathews Brautigam, Class of 2015
Grant Stephen Carney, Class of 2015
Sarah Hannum Eisenlohr, Class of 2015
Katherine Ellen Goodwin, Class of 2015
Conor Michael Hennessey, Class of 2014
Leah Rose Hindel, Class of 2015
Mary Alice Jackson, Class of 2015
Martin Joseph Kezon, Class of 2013
Emma Frances Foster Lo, Class of 2015
Olivia Michael Lott, Class of 2015
Elizabeth Noel Matteri, Class of 2015
Kelly Marie Menzel, Class of 2015
Christopher Kuand Ming Murphy, Class of 2013
Claudia Sophia Pepe, Class of 2015
Alisa Rebecka Rethy, Class of 2015
Rebecca Anne Saltzman, Class of 2015
Steven Edward Schmidt, Class of 2015
Lydia Rose Shahan, Class of 2015
Tselmegtsetseg Tsetsendelger, Class of 2015

Elmer A. Graham Endowed Scholarship Fund

Haley Magdalene Townsend, Class of 2016

Eppa Rixey III Memorial Scholarship

Nicholas S. LaPoint, Class of 2016

Program in American Studies

William B. Scott Award in American Studies

Rachel Mitchell, Class of 2016

Department of Anthropology

The Margaret Mead Award in Anthropology

Kindra Fontes-May, Class of 2014

Departments of Art and Art History

The Richard Kingan Liggitt Memorial Award in Art History     

Virginia Claire McBride, Class of 2015
Schuyler Lea Krogh, Class of 2015

The Robert H. Hallstein Memorial Award in Art

Taylor Parshall Sweeney, Class of 2015
Emily Cates Witosky, Class of 2015
Amber Olivia Kraus, Class of 2015

The Peterson Prize in Art

Cheyenne Cody Cardell, Class of 2015
Ashley Lynn Thompson, Class of 2015

Department of Biology

The Dorothy E. and Thomas C. Jegla Prize

Anthony R. Tellez, Class of 2017
Dominic W. Camperchioli, Class of 2017

The Maxwell Elliott Power Prize

H. Bennett Stephens, Class of 2015
Melissa A. Mooradian, Class of 2015

The Robert Bowen Brown Jr. Prize

Megan M. Koenecke, Class of 2015

Department of Chemistry

The Chemical Rubber Company Chemistry Achievement Award

Jacob LaPoint, Class of 2018

The Carl Djerassi Award in Chemistry

Kyuto "Q" Tashiro, Class of 2015

Department of Classics

The George L. Brain Prize

Sarah Eisenlohr, Class of 2015
Michelle Schulte, Class of 2015

The Carl Diehl Prize in Latin

James Wojtal, Class of 2018

The Carl Diehl Prize in Greek

Natalie Ayers, Class of 2017

Department of Economics

The Paul Titus Economics Prize

Eli Fadil, Class of 2015

Department of English

The Robert Daniel Memorial Scholarship

Erika Cuevas, Class of 2016
Jonathan Sun, Class of 2016

The Philip Wolcott Timberlake Junior Prize

Samuel Lagasse, Class of 2016
Harrison Montgomery, Class of 2016

The Philip Wolcott Timberlake Memorial Prize

Claire Brautigam, Class of 2015
Amanda Moffett, Class of 2015

The Denham Sutcliffe Memorial Award

Kaitlyn Burd, Class of 2015
Christine Prevas, Class of 2015

Department of History

The Robert L. Baker Memorial Prize

Claire Berman, Class of 2016

The Alan G. Goldsmith Memorial Prize   

Nat Katz, Class of 2015
Anna Walley, Class of 2015
Stewart Huntsman, Class of 2016
Olivia Lloyd, Class of 2016

The Curtis A. Seichter Award

Lydia Shahan, Class of 2015
Julia Tomlinson, Class of 2016

Integrated Program in Humane Studies

The Richard F. Hettlinger Award

Daniel Joseph Semelsberger, Class of 2016
Schuyler Lea Krogh, Class of 2015

Program in International Studies

The International Studies Award

Steven Schmidt, Class of 2015

Department of Mathematics and Statistics

The Reginald B. Allen Prize

Elizabeth Carlisle Greco, Class of 2015

The J. R. Butz Mathematics Prize

Elizabeth Carlisle Greco, Class of 2015

The Solomon R. S. Kasper Prize

Samuel Justice, Class of 2015

Department of Modern Languages and Literatures

The Edward Harvey Prize (French)

Logan Bialik, Class of 2015

The Charles Singer Williams Prize in French

Jacqueline McGraw, Class of 2015
Daniela Edmeier, Class of 2015

The Spanish Prize

Olivia Lott, Class of 2015

The Sigrid Lanzrath Memorial Prize (German)

Elizabeth Matteri, Class of 2015
Claire Brautigam, Class of 2015

The Italian Prize

Thomas Mattes, Class of 2015
Claire Talty, Class of 2015

The Russian Prize

Michelle Schulte, Class of 2015
Tselmegtsetseg Tsetsendelger, Class of 2015

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

Alexander Urist, Class of 2015

The Japanese Prize           

Jiayu Chen, Class of 2017

The Arabic Prize

Maria Guzman, Class of 2015
Logan Bialik, Class of 2015

Department of Music

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

Emma Munger, Class of 2014

The Kathleen (Kay) Locke Community Service Music Prize

Conor Dugan, Class of 2015
Claire Matlak, Class of 2015

The Gabriel A. Ben-Meir Senior Award in Music          

Jaime Cohen, Class of 2015

Department of Neuroscience

The Jon L. Williams Prize

Olubusola Olukoya, Class of 2015
Allen Sanderlin, Class of 2015

Department of Philosophy

The Virgil C. Aldrich Prize

Julie M. France, Class of 2015

Department of Physics

The Elbe H. Johnson Prize

Arthur Conover, Class of 2017

Department of Political Science

The John Chesnut Memorial Prize

Andrew David Stewart, Class of 2015

Department of Psychology

The Psychology Prize

Zoe Smith, Class of 2015

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

Dan Johnson, Class of 2015

Department of Religious Studies

The Simpson Prize in Religious Studies

Zoe Lyon, Class of 2015

Department of Sociology

The Jane Addams Award

Conrad Mark-John Jacober, Class of 2015

The George Herbert Mead Award

Jennifer L. Ruymann, Class of 2015
Kimberley Nicole Selwyn, Class of 2015

Program in Women’s and Gender Studies

The Molly R. Hatcher Prize in Women’s and Gender Studies

Christine Prevas, Class of 2015

College Awards

The George Gund Award

Drew Hogan, Class of 2015

The George B. Ogden Award       

Henri K. Gendreau, Class of 2016
John Phalen Rayson, Class of 2018

The Academy of American Poetry Prize

Taylor Cornelius, Class of 2016
Sarah Bence, Class of 2015

The Muriel C. Bradbrook Prize

Austin Butler, Class of 2015
Christine Prevas, Class of 2015

The John Crowe Ransom Poetry Prize

Chloe Farrell, Class of 2016

The Propper Prize for Poetry

Ian Burnette, Class of 2018

The Paul Newman Trophy

Issa Polstein, Class of 2015, for his role as Katurian in The Pillowman

The Joanne Woodward Trophy

Julia Greer, Class of 2015, for her role as Corryn Fell in Gidion's Knot   

The Ashford Memorial Award for Excellence in Dramatics

Matthew Super, Class of 2015.

The James E. Michael Prize in Playwriting

Rioghnach Robinson, Class of 2016, for her play Mourning Sickness

The Dance Prize

Elizabeth Furman, Class of 2015     

The Jess Willard Falkenstine Awards

Maddy Jacobs, Class of 2015
Jake Dunn, Class of 2015

The Middle Path Partnership Award for Community Service

Conrad Jacober, Class of 2015

The Humanitarian Award

Tim Jurney, Class of 2015
Phoebe Roe, Class of 2016

The Martin Luther King Jr. Humanitarian Award          

Alexandra Pei-hsia Britt, Class of 2015

The Doris B. Crozier Award

Alexandra Pei-hsia Britt, Class of 2015

The E. Malcolm Anderson Cup

Qossay Al-Sattari, Class of 2015