Student Laurels and Honors 2010
University, schools & departments list 2010 student awards
National
Goldwater Scholarship
Duke juniors Nicolas Altemose and Jared Dunnmon, who have received attention for their undergraduate research in genomics and energy, won Goldwater Scholarships in Science, Mathematics and Engineering on Tuesday.
Both award winners are A.B. Duke Scholars. The national award provides up to $7,500 toward annual tuition and expenses. A third Duke student is included among honorable mentions.
Altemose, a Trinity College junior from Temecula, Calif., majoring in biology, has been engaged in research in genomics since his first year at Duke. He is particularly interested in understanding the functioning of heterochromatic regions of human chromosomes.
A Pratt School of Engineering junior from Cincinnati, Dunnmon is a mechanical engineering and economics major whose research has focused on novel and renewable energy sources. Last year, he designed and tested clusters of microturbine devices in a wind tunnel to determine how much power could they could produce from unusual wind flows, such as those between tall urban buildings.
Beinecke Scholarship
David W. Ungvary, a graduating senior classical civilizations and languages major, won a Beinecke Scholarship in 2009 to pursue graduate study following his undergraduate degree.
The award honors students who have shown outstanding intellectual ability and curiosity and who plan to enter a master's or doctoral program in the arts, humanities or social sciences.
His senior thesis examined "the theological implications of the efforts of Juvencus, Arator and Sedulius authors who separately reorganized and rewrote books of the New Testament into epic poems."
Churchill Scholarship
Duke juniors Nicolas Altemose and Jared Dunnmon, who have received attention for their undergraduate research in genomics and energy, won Goldwater Scholarships in Science, Mathematics and Engineering in January.
Both award winners are A.B. Duke Scholars. The national award provides up to $7,500 toward annual tuition and expenses. A third Duke student is included among honorable mentions.
Altemose has been engaged in research in genomics since his first year at Duke under the mentorship of Huntington Willard, director of the Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy. He intends to pursue a Ph.D. in this area.
A Pratt School of Engineering junior from Cincinnati, Dunnmon is a mechanical engineering and economics major whose research has focused on novel and renewable energy sources. Last year, he designed and tested clusters of microturbine devices in a wind tunnel to determine how much power could they could produce from unusual wind flows, such as those between tall urban buildings.
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Fulbright Scholarships
Four graduating seniors have received Fulbright Scholarships for international study:
Dana Hornbeak will do graduate study in medicine in Singapore; Meagan Labunski for graduate student in art and architectural history in Italy; Kari Shepherdson-Scott to study art history in Japan; and Reena Goldthree to study history in Trinidad & Tobago.
The Fulbright offers opportunities for recent graduates and others to do career-launching research abroad.
University
Faculty Scholars
Three Duke undergraduates who have compiled an exception record of undergraduate research and scholarship have received the Faculty Scholar's award, the highest award given to students by the faculty.
The winners and their majors are:
Rose Li (Chemistry)
Kathryn Maxson (Biology)
Matthew Rognlie (Mathematics & Economics)
Honorable mention went to John Harpham (Political Science) and Jordan Rice (Spanish & Latin American Studies).
The students were selected out of 22 nominations from faculty in 16 departments. In addition, two students received honorable mention.
Arts
Benenson Awards
The Edward H. Benenson Awards in the Arts are given annually to undergraduate students to broaden their educational and professional objectives in the Arts. The awards are made on a competitive basis for the most outstanding project proposals and are determined by a special committee appointed by the Dean of Trinity College. This year's winners are:
Michael Bergen; Marissa Bergmann; Michael Blake; Ben Cohen; Kathryn Hampton; John Harpham; Kana Hatakeyama; Carmen Hernandez;
Mary Ashton Inglis; Kevin Lincoln; Anna Mazhirov; Tatianna Mott; Danya Taymor; Ali Yalgin; and Eric Zhou
Art, Art History and Visual Studies
Allison Simler and Rebecca Wood won the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation Visual Arts Award.
Margaret Morrison and Caroline Schermer received the Nancy Kaneb Art History Award.
Taylor Martyn and Umberto Plaja received the Sue and Lee Noel Prize in the Visual Arts Award.
Mycah Braxton and Michelle Sullivan received the Visual Studies Initiative Award.
Arts of the Moving Image
Rachel Pea received the Outstanding Undergraduate Filmmaker Award
Center for Documentary Studies
Kevin Tolson is the winner of the Julia Harper Day Award for Documentary Studies. His final project was titled "The Sweet Science: The Story of NBS Boxing Gym," a film that highlights the story of a boxing gym in Raleigh and its young fighters.
Dance Program
Danika Manso-Brown received the Clay Taliaferro Dance Award
Caroline Griswold won the July Wray Dance Award.
Duke Union
Tomi Adewale, Adam Barron andJustina Wong received the Hal Kammerer Memorial Prize for Film and Video Production.
Department of English
Ben Grisz received the Academy of American Poets Prize for "Drifters."
Connor Southard and Thomas Gebremedhin received the Anne Flexner Memorial Award for Creative Writing in Fiction. Southard won for "Warrior's Day" and Gebremedhin for "Afterthoughts."
Amanda Auerbach won the Anne Flexner Memorial Award for Creative Writing in Poetry for "Birthnight."
Abigail Bowes and Shamiya Lucas were presented with the Francis Pemberton Scholarship.
Brooke Kingsland received the Margaret Rose Knight Sanford Scholarship.
Chelsea Allison received the Schutte Senior Award.
Tracy Gold won the Terry Welby Tyler Jr. Award for Creative Writing for "Stone Shadows."
Abram Smith and Jess Jalufka received the William M. Blackburn Scholarship.
Department of Music
David Kirkland Garner won the William Klenz Prize in Music Composition for "i ain't broke (but i'm badly bent)" for string quartet.
Pianist Chun (Jim) Chou received the Julia Wilkinson Mueller Prize for Excellence in Music, awarded to a graduating senior for achievement in musical performance.
Composer David Eisenband received the Henry Schuman Music Prize, awarded to a graduating senior for an original composition or a distinguished paper in music history or analysis for "Six Songs of Emily Dickinson" for high voice and piano.
Nasher Museum of Art
Andrew Hibbard, Christina Martin and Laura Pierce received Mary Duke Biddle Foundation Summer Internship Awards.
Kiki Fox won the Trent A. and Susan L. Carmichael Internship.
Department of Theater Studies
Kana Hatakeyama and Tatianna Mott received the Alex Cohen Award for Summer Initiatives in Theater.
Allison Thawley received the Dale B.J. Randall Award in Dramatic Literature.
Tatianna Mott earned the Harold Brody Award for Excellence in Musical Theater.
Danya Taymor won the Jody McAuliffe Award for Excellence in Directing.
Kathryn Hampton received the Kenneth J. Reardon Award.
Allison Thawley received the John M. Clum Distinguished Drama Award.
Kana Hatakeyama won the Richard Cytowic Award for the Outstanding Student in Acting.
Trinity College
Danya Taymor received the Louis Sudler Prize in the Creative and Performing Arts.
Tassity Shardac Johnson won the Bascom Headen Palmer Literary Prize. David Wilson Ungvary received honorable mention.
Leila Dal Santo earned the James Rolleston Prize for Best Honors Thesis Written in a Foreign Language.
Cultural Anthropology
Kathryn Marie Terrell earned the Judith McDade Prize in Cultural Anthropology, awarded to the student with the most distinguished record in the major.
Nanjie Caihua received the Paul Farmer Award for Justice and Social Responsibility, which recognizes to academic excellence and social justice in cultural anthropology.
African and African-American Studies
Amanda Boston received the John Hope Franklin Award for the highest GPA.
Celeste Jackson and Jamaur Bronner received the Mary McLeod Bethune award for writing.
Jessica Davis-Ricci received the Karla F. Holloway award for service to Duke.
Portia Boone received the Walter Burford award for service to the community.
Treva Lindsey received the Graduate Teaching Award.
History
Edward Lawrence Holt and Alexis Darlene Sypek received the William T. Laprade Prize for the best senior thesis.
Andrew Zonderman received the Cannon Prize for exemplary character and high standards of historical scholarship.
Kenan Institute for Ethics
Amber Díaz won the Kenan Instructorship in Ethics to teach the ethics of global politics.
Political Science
Isaac He and Kyung Gun Lim received the Alona E. Evans Prize in International Law.
Lucy McKinstry won the Robert Rankin Award in American Government and Constitutional Law.
Samuel Bowler and David Clain received the Robert Rankin Award in American National, State and Local Governments.
Spencer Eldred, Amanda Boston and Portia Boone won the Robert Rankin Award for Leadership and Academic Achievement.
Andrew Kindman and Sungho Lee received the Elizabeth G. Verville Award.
Jeffrey Fox won the Ole Holsti Award in American Foreign Policy and International Relations.
Women's Studies
Lindsey Andrews (English) and China Medel (Program in Literature) earned Graduate Scholars Colloquium 2010-2011 Leader Awards
Lindsey Andrews (English) received the Gender and Race Research Award given to undergraduate and graduate students whose projects promote scholarly exploration and research on topics of gender and race. She was honored for "Experimental Treatment: Art and Alternatives to the Pathologization of Race and Gender in American Medicine"
Song Kim (2011/ Women's Studies & Chemistry) earned the Dora Anne Little Award, given to a student at the undergraduate or graduate level who has excelled in service to the campus and community which extends beyond the classroom. She was honored for "Intimate Citizenship" in the Transnation: Filipina Migrants in South Korea."
Ernestine Friedl Research Awards, given to an advanced graduate student whose dissertation explores the cultural, social and biological construction of gender, were presented to: Kathleen Antonioli (Romance Studies) for "L'amateur est devenue professionnelle": Colette, Professionalism and Gendered Literary Production"; Cristina Ruiz (Romance Studies) for "Bad Girls on Stage: the Representation of Music Hall Artists in Popular Culture in Spain (1900-1936)"; and Johanna Schuster-Craig (Germanic Languages and Literatures) for "Gender and Representation in Contemporary Turkish-German Identity Politics."
Classical Studies
David Ungvary will receive this year's David Taggart Clark Prize, an award for the best honors thesis.
Romance Studies
Laleh Bahrami and Leila Christine Dal Santo won the Robert J. Niess/Alexander Hull Award in French.
Jessica Arden Gushner received the Guido Mazzoni Award in Italian.
Elana Miriam Berger and Jordan Andrew Rice won the Richard L. Predmore Award in Spanish.
Mathematics
Wutichai Chongchitmate, Jason Dean Lee and Matthew James Rognlie received the Julia Dale Prize in Mathematics.
Wutichai Chongchitmate, Matthew James Rognlie and Peng Shi received the Karl Menger Award for Superior Performance in the 70th William Lowell Putnam Competition.
Chemistry
Caitlin Sacha received the American Chemical Society Analytical Division Undergraduate Award, given to a rising junior or senior to recognize students who display an aptitude for a career in analytical chemistry. The award consists of an 8-month subscription in the Division of Analytical Chemistry.
Tessa M. Carducci was awarded a Beckman Scholarship in the Program in Molecular Imaging and Interdisciplinary Chemical Sciences, which provides financial support for two summers and one academic year plus additional funding for research supplies and travel to scientific meetings.
George Z.A. Perret was awarded a Beckman Scholarship in the Program in Molecular Imaging and Interdisciplinary Chemical Sciences, which provides financial support for two summers and one academic year plus additional funding for research supplies and travel to scientific meetings.
Yun Li received a Merck Index Award, given to an AB or BS candidate who has maintained a truly distinguished academic record and intends to pursue advanced study in medicine. The award consists of a copy of the Merck Index.
Hiroya Nambu received a Merck Index Award, given to an AB or BS candidate who has maintained a truly distinguished academic record and intends to pursue advanced study in medicine. The award consists of a copy of the Merck Index.
Yi-Hsueh Lu received the Department of Chemistry Award, given to a BS candidate who has participated in Independent Study, maintained a truly distinguished academic record, and intends to pursue advanced study in chemistry or a chemistry-related discipline. The award consists of a one year student membership in the American Chemical Society and a one year e-subscription to an appropriate journal published by ACS.
Yongho Parkreceived the Hypercube Scholar Award, given to a BS chemistry major who has maintained an outstanding academic record and plans to pursue graduate study in an area of chemistry which uses molecular modeling extensively. The award consists of a molecular modeling computer software package.
Robert Holbrook received the 2009-2010 Inorganic Chemistry Award for "demonstrated excellence in inorganic chemistry at the undergraduate level." The award consisted of a personalized certificate as well as a letter of commendation from the Chair of the ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry.
Biology
Teresa Shireen Gross won the James B. Rast Memorial Award in Comparative Organismal Biology.
Anthony Lee received the Edward C. Horn Memorial Prize for Excellence in Biology.
Sarah Renee Diehl received the Excellence in Plant Science Prize.
Natalie Harrison received The Maggie Schneider Award in Marine Biology.
Alexander David Nuttle won the Biology Faculty Award.
Physics
Ariana Minot, a senior physics major, has received a 2010 Fulbright Scholars fellowship to work at the Linear Accelerator Laboratory in Orsay, France, analyzing data from the Large Hadron Collider.
Alejandro (Alex) Cortese, a sophomore physics major, is the recipient of a 2010 Mellon Mays Fellowship to support physics research over the next two years.
Siyuan Sun, a junior physics major, and Zongjin Qian, a freshman physics major, have received Dean's Research Fellowships to support research at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the world's highest energy particle accelerator in Geneva, Switzerland.
Yu Zeng, a fifth year experimental high energy physics graduate student, was awarded the Universities Research Association (URA) Visiting Scholarship to support his thesis work entitled "An Improved W Boson Mass Measurement at CDF."
Program in Education
Michele Lanpher is the student winner of the Betsy Alden Outstanding Service-Learning Award, which recognizes graduating seniors for outstanding commitment to the ideals of service-learning and civic engagement. The faculty winner is Deborah Gold, and the Community Partner is Patricia Lemm.
Jane Kim won the D. T. Stallings Award, presented to a senior who has worked closely with faculty in the Program in Education to provide high quality tutoring to children in local schools. The award honors sustained and dedicated service to school children.
Helen Ho, Angela Vo, and Lindsey Wallace won the Winfred Quinton Holton Prize for Educational Research, given to undergraduates for outstanding innovative or investigative research focused on education. Emily Ice and Jenessa Malin won Honorable Mention honors.
Psychology and Neuroscience
Michele Lanpher and Chris Sheppard won the Zener Award for outstanding senior thesis.
Lanpher, who worked with professor Laura Richman, examined the impact on students' well-being from participating in DukeEngage. She found that participating in this extended volunteer experience was associated with significant increases in students' feelings of happiness, personal growth, and life satisfaction.
Sheppard, who worked with professor Phil Costanzo, examined the impact that leading a substance use intervention program had on the peer leaders' status among peers, their social influence and their susceptibility to peer influence. An important finding was that participating as a leader predicted a significant decline in the popularity of the female leaders.
Economics Matt Rognliewon the best thesis award for "Spurious Jump Detection and Intraday Changes in Volatility." Second place went to Andrew Born for "Collusion with Three Bidders at First-Price Auctions" and third place went to David Benson for "The Dynamics of Health Care Demand During an Illness Episode."
David Benson was awarded first prize for Best Research Presentation at Symposium. Second place went to Matt Rognlie.
Military Science
John Patrick Barone, Phillip Daniel Cotter, Michael Duke Meehan and Alexander George Salloum were named Distinguished Military Graduates.
Naval Science
Jonathon Aaron Mikkelson won the American Veterans Award.
Jordan Clare Goldstein won the National Defense Industrial Association Award.
Samuel N. Lamson received the Scottish Rite Award.
Jordan Clare Goldstein won the Daughters of the American Revolution Award.
Andrew Hilton Tennyson won the Sons of the American Revolution Award.
Kristen Blair Gall earned the CNO Distinguished Midshipman Graduate Award.
Sanford School of Public Policy
Elana M. Berger received the Joel Fleishman Distinguished Scholar Award for highest academic achievement in public policy studies. She completed an honors thesis titled "Selling America: U.S. Public Diplomacy Programs in the Middle East and South Asia in a Post 9/11 Environment."
Marie E. Aberger and Joy K. Cheek were named co-winners of the Terry Sanford Leadership Award. Both interned in the White House last summer with Vice President Joe Biden. Aberger has been hired to work as press assistant in the Communications Office of Vice President Biden after graduation, and Cheek, a member of the Duke women's basketball team, was drafted by the WNBA Indiana Fever.
Julia J. Chou won the Best Honors Thesis Award for her research project titled, "Food for Thought: The Effectiveness of Inpatient Malnutrition Treatment in the Case of Nutre Hogar in Panama."
Fuqua School of Business
Allison Elaine Witt won the Asa T. Spaulding Sr. Award for Leadership.
Ting Pong Gabriel Ho received the Breeden Award in Finance.
Christopher Wayne Krummel received the Distinguished Service Award.
James Seoung-jin Kim and Anne Craig Riley won the Keohane Leadership Award.
Shaun Patrick Horrigan received the Alan D. Schwartz Award for Mentorship.
Dean's Recognition Awards went to: Quinn M. Carroll; James William Chambers; Adrienne Clark Clough; Christopher Giorgia Ciompi; Kristin Garro
Rishi Gera; Ritu Ratna Khanna; Matthew Burke McLain; Melanie Sara Oberman; Elizabeth MacLeod Runkle; Rina Khemlani Shah and Matthew Allen Zeller.
Divinity School
Derek Ryan Kubilus, Candice Ryals Provey and Maria Gizella Swearingen received the Jameson Jones Preaching Award.
Anna Elizabeth Adams was selected for the Hoyt Hickman Award for Excellence in Liturgics.
Christopher Mark Blumhofer and Candice Ryals Provey received the Award for Excellence in Bible.
Receiving the McMurry Richey Awards were: Angela Mechelle MacDonald for Outstanding Student in Field Education; Cristina Louise Comer and Amanda Jayne Dean for Outstanding Students in Missions; and James Scott Finicum and Martin Park Hunter for Outstanding Student Pastors.
JoAnn Rae Lampley received the Fellowship Seminarian Award from the Fellowship of United Methodists in Music and Worship Arts.
Amanda Earp Diekman and Jordan Lee Hylden received the top GPA Awards.
Pratt School of Engineering
Nelson Santos De Oliveira and Joseph William McMurray Jr. received the American Society of Civil Engineers Prize.
Jordan Clare Goldstein won the Otto Meier Jr., Tau Beta Pi Award.
Stephanie Reid Everett and Jordan Scott Woodson won the Aubrey E. Palmer Award.
Margaret Ann Hoff received the Eric I. Pas Award.
Bryan Ross Kindya earned the Theo Pilkington Award.
Sandip Agrawal and Benjamin Scott Hamner received Charles Seager Memorial Award.
Ankit Prasad earned the George Sherrerd III Memorial Award in Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Jai Douglas Singh won the William Brewster Snow Environmental Engineering Award.
William Graham Patrick and Ankit Prasad received Student Service Awards.
David Alexander Eitel won the David Randall Fuller Prize.
Nicholas School of the Environment
Deshira Wallace and Ciara Wirth received the Sara LaBoskey Award for personal integrity and academic excellence.
Alexander Abram Robel won the Thomas V. Laska Memorial Award in Earth and Ocean Sciences.
Service Awards
Jesse Huddleston received the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award that recognizes one senior for outstanding commitment to service. For more, click here.
Michele Lanpher won the Betsy Alden Outstanding Service-Learning Award.
Song Kim won the Dora Anne Little Service Award for excellence in service to the campus and community outside of the classroom.
Rob Van Dusen received the Julie Anne Levey Memorial Leadership Award.
Derek Williams earned the Lars Lyon Volunteer Service Award for distinguished volunteer service.
Junior Leah Milbauer and sophomore Angela Jiana won Leading at Duke Awards for their efforts in class leadership.
William J. Griffith University Service Award
The William J. Griffith Service Award is presented to students whose contributions to the Duke and larger communities have made a significant impact on university life. Those students whose efforts demonstrate an understanding of the responsibilities of effective university and civic citizenship are eligible for this award:
Outstanding Contributions to the Duke Community
Chinwe Atkinson; Julia Chapman; Alyssa Dack; Meg Foran; Naomi Harris; Brittany Hesbrook; Mary Ashton Inglis; Casey Miller; Adam Nathan
Neelima Navuluri; Eden Shiferaw; Ryan Steiger; and Patrick Ye
Outstanding Contributions to the Durham and Local Community
Shari Baker, Poorav Rohatgi and Thomas Williamson Jr.
Outstanding Contributions to the Global Community
Anjali Bhatia and Xing Zong
Student Affairs Distinguished Leadership and Service Awards
Jesse Huddleston won the Respect for Community Award.
Fernande Legros received the Commitment to Diversity Award.
Courtney Jamison won the Demonstration of Integrity Award
Samiyyah Ali won the Expanding the Boundaries of Learning Award.
Jennifer Chen earned the Building Alliances through Collective Engagement Award.