University Programs Honor Top Students

National Awards

Marshall Scholarship

Emily Heikamp of Metairie, La., a senior majoring in biology, and Alexander Oshmyansky, a second-year medical student from Littleton, Colo., have won Marshall Scholarships, which will finance two years of study in the United Kingdom.

Both plan to study at OxfordUniversity. Up to 40 scholars in the United States are selected each year to study either at the graduate or, occasionally, the undergraduate level in any field. Marshall Scholars are considered potential leaders and decision-makers. The scholarships are financed by the British government and are worth about $60,000 over two years.

Goldwater Scholarship

Peter Q. Blair, a junior from Chicago who is majoring in mathematics and physics; Adam Chandler, a junior from Burlington, N.C., majoring in mathematics and chemistry; and William (Billy) Hwang, a junior from Potomac, Md., majoring in biomedical engineering, physics, and electrical and computer engineering, have been awarded Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships for their achievements in the sciences, mathematics or engineering.

They were among 320 sophomores and juniors selected on the basis of academic merit from a national field of 1,091. Since the awards began about 17 years ago in memory of the late U.S. senator and Republican presidential candidate, 58 Duke students have received the honor, which provides up to $7,500 a year toward tuition, books and other college expenses.

Churchill Scholarship

No«l Bakhtian has been selected as a 2005 recipient of the Winston Churchill Scholarship to conduct graduate study for a year at CambridgeUniversity in England. Bakhtian, a senior from Fort Myers, Fla., is completing a double major in mechanical engineering and physics and will graduate in May 2005. The Churchill Scholarship Program, established in 1959, enables outstanding American students to conduct graduate studies in engineering, mathematics, and the natural and physical sciences at ChurchillCollege, CambridgeUniversity. Ten of the scholarships are awarded each year by the Winston Churchill Foundation of New York City.

After graduation and her year at Cambridge, Bakhtian plans to pursue a Ph.D. in aeronautical engineering and then apply to the astronaut program.

Truman Scholarship

Hersh Sandesara, a chemistry/public policy studies double major, won a Truman Scholarship, which recognizes college juniors with exceptional leadership potential who are committed to careers in government, the non-profit or advocacy sectors, education or elsewhere in public service. The scholars receive financial aid for graduate student in their field of choice.

Rockefeller Brothers teaching fellowships

Annick Charlot, a junior public policy studies major from West Palm Beach, Fla.; Marissa L. McDaniel, a junior biological anthropology and anatomy major from Little Rock, Ark.; and Jennika Suero, a junior sociology major from the Bronx, N.Y., have received fellowships for Students of Color Entering the Teaching Profession program sponsored by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF).

The three winners join a current senior, Krystal M. Reddick, a senior political science and African and Africa-American studies major from LindenN.J. Reddick won the fellowship last year.

Rockefeller Brothers teaching fellows receive up to $22,100 over a five-year period that begins after their third year of college and ends when they have completed three years of public school teaching.

Goldman Sachs Award

Carly Knight, a sophomore, was recently selected as one of only 20 undergraduates from the United States and Canada to be honored as a Goldman Sachs Global Leader.

Each Global Leader receives a $3,000 grant for educational expenses. In addition, 50 of this year's 100 Global Leaders, including 10 from U.S. and Canadian universities, will be selected to participate in the annual Goldman Sachs Global Leadership Institute, July 10-15, in New York City.

University

DivinitySchool

Eugene Hebert of Baton Rouge, La., and George Ragsdale of Salisbury, N.C., received the Jameson Jones Preaching Award. The award is named for a former dean of the school.

Matthew Olver of Carol Stream, Ill., won the Hoyt Hickman Award for Excellence in Liturgics as judged by divinity faculty.

Timothy Lang of Katy, Texas, and Brittany Wilson of San Antonio, Texas, were recipients of the Outstanding Students in Bible Awards.

Grant Woodley of Clarion, Iowa, received The McMurry S. Richey Outstanding Student in Field Education Award.

Lisa Schubert of Indianapolis, Ind., won The McMurry S. Richey Outstanding Student in Mission Award. Richard McKinley of Newport, Maine received The McMurry S. Richey Outstanding Student Pastor Award. The two awards, presented for the first time this year, are named for Richey, a professor emeritus of theology and Christian nurture, who served on the faculty from 1954 to 1985.

Computer science

Ayonike Akingbade won the Alex Vasilos Memorial Award, which recognizes students for their excellence in academic achievement and undergraduate program support.

Jessica Smith won the Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Award, presented to a graduating major in recognition of his or her leadership as a teaching assistant.

Mathematics

Nikifor Bliznashki, a sophomore from Sofia Bulgaria, Oaz Nir, a senior from SaratogaCalif, and Lingren Zhang, a freshman from ShanghaiChina, received the Karl Menger award for their placement among the top one percent of contestants entering the prestigious William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition for students in Canada and the United States. The Putnam team that they formed placed third behind teams from MIT and Princeton.

The team of juniors Pradeep Baliga from TuscaloosaAla., Adam Chandler of Burlington and Matthew Mian of Concord, ranked Outstanding in the 2005 Mathematics Contest in Modeling. Theirs was one of two teams chosen by the Mathematics Association of America (MAA) to talk on their results at the summer meetings of the MAA this August.

Oaz Nir and Mayank Varia of Raleigh were awarded the Julia Dale prize for excellence in mathematics. This, the top departmental honor, is presented each year to the best senior or seniors majoring in mathematics.

Chemistry

Jing Chen of College Station, Tex., Sean Kedrowski of Signal Mountain, Tenn. and Victor Gonzalez of Laredo, Tex., each won Kenneth Gordon Fellowships, awarded to juniors and seniors to encourage undergraduate research in the sciences.

Margaret Wat of Chapel Hill won the Merck Index Award for an AB or BS who has maintained a distinguished record and intends to pursue advanced study in medical school.

Sean Kedrowski of Signal Mountain, Tenn., won the Chemistry Department Award for a BS candidate who has participated in independent study, maintained a truly distinguished record and intends to pursue advanced study in chemistry.

Victor Gonzalez of Laredo, Texas, won the Hypercube Scholar Award for a BS chemistry major who has maintained an outstanding academic record and plans to pursue graduate study in an area of chemistry that exclusively uses molecular modeling.

Physics

Peter Q. Blair of Chicago won an American Physical Society Scholarship for Minority Undergraduate Physics Majors.

Engineering

Kelly Devereaux of Scottsdale, Ariz, won the Aubrey Palmer Award, given to a civil engineering senior in recognition of outstanding academic achievement.

Victor Victorsson of Seltjarnarnes, Iceland, received the William Brewster Snow Award, given to seniors who have demonstrated academic excellence, interest and enthusiasm in the study of environmental engineering.

Deirdre McShane of Longwood, Fla., And Justin Shapiro of Teaneck, N.J., won the American Society of Civil Engineers Prize/Outstanding Seniors Award.

Christopher Einmo of Winter Haven, Fla., and Daniel Stepner of Bowie, Md., won the Eric I. Pas award, given to the most outstanding independent study projects by graduating civil engineering seniors.

Larissa West of Greenville, S.C., won the George Sherrerd III Memorial Award in Electrical Engineering, awarded annually to the senior in electrical engineering who has attained the highest level of scholastic achievement.

Nicole Weaver of Auburn, Ala., won the Charles Ernest Seager Memorial Award, which recognizes achievement in the annual Student Prize Paper Contest of the Duke branch of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers or significant contributions to electrical engineering.

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Awards went to Nicole Weaver, Danielle Davidian of Aiken, S.C., Tina Taylor of Baltimore, Jun Liu of Weston, Fla., and Ronal Abraham of Muscat, Oman.

Nicole Weaver won the undergraduate Vail Award.

William Hwang of Potomac, Md., won first place in the school's Research Poster Contest. Second place went to Nicole Weaver.

Justin Darkoch of Wayne, N.J., won the Otto Meier Jr. Tau Beta Pi Award, which honors a top student in the Duke chapter of the engineering society.

Aya Eguchi of Bethesda, Md., and Nasheer Azeem Sachedina of Durham won the Helmholtz Award, given to the graduating senior who presents the best research project. Ungtae Lee of Columbia, Md., won the David Randall Fuller Prize, awarded to the graduating senior who has shown the most improvement in academic performance over the first three years.

Economics

Shiying Lee of Singapore and Yuanshu Deng of Greensboro won the Allen Starling Johnson Jr. Best Thesis Prize.

The Allen Starling Johnson Jr. Distinguished Undergraduate Research Assistant Prize was awarded to Alicia Michelle Manning of Tampa, Fla., Jeffrey K. Lee of Potomac, Md., Sarah Elizabeth Herder of Houston, Andrew Aaron Watson of Atlanta, Kevin Ji of Gilbert, Ariz., Tammy Lynne Tieu of Akron, Ohio, Meera Piyush Patel of Somerset, Ky., Huanjie Wang of Richardson, Texas, and Ashni Parekh.

Political Science

Daniel Ryan Kennedy of Marietta, Ga., was named winner of the Alona E. Evans Prize in International Law, given annually to a student whose paper on international law reflects excellence in scholarship.

Scott Andrew Lemmon of Charlotte has been honored with the Robert S. Rankin Award in American Government and Constitutional Law.

Mary Ellison Baars of Pensacola, Fla., was awarded the Robert S. Rankin Award in American National, State and Local Governments.

Nathan Lee Carleton of Munroe Falls, Ohio, was awarded the Robert S. Rankin American Government Award for Leadership and Academic Achievement.

Leah Hunt-Hendrix of Tenafly, N.J., has been honored with the Elizabeth G. Verville Award. This award is presented annually to the student who submits the best paper on the subject of political science.

Jennifer Susan Hainsfurther of Highland Park, Ill., has been awarded the Ole R. Holsti Award in American Foreign Policy and International Relations, given to the undergraduate student whose paper in American Foreign Policy and International Relations reflects excellence in scholarship.

Education

Lauren Ruderman of Maitland, Fla., was awarded the Winfred Q. Holton Prize, given each year for outstanding innovative or investigative work dealing with education. It carries a cash award of $250.

Jamie Frank of Plymouth, Mass., and Lauren Ruderman of Maitland, Fla., were awarded the D.T. Stallings Award, presented annually to seniors who have worked closely with faculty in the Program in Education to provide high-quality tutoring to at-risk children in local schools. This award honors sustained and dedicated service to school children.

Katherine Bernstein of Pittsburgh, Pa., was given the Holton Award for Brussels Fellows, which provides a fellowship for a Duke graduate to spend one post-baccalaureate year working in the Early Childhood Center at the International School of Brussels, Belgium.

Asian Pacific Studies

The Sirena WuDunn Memorial Scholarships for 2005-2006 have been awarded to Theresa Chiu of Alpharetta, Ga., Kevin Fang of Rockville, Md., Yi Li of Fort Dodge, Iowa, Steven Lin of British Columbia, Canada, and James Zou of Columbus, Ohio. These scholarships are given each year in memory of Sirena WuDunn, a Duke student who was killed when Korean Airlines flight 007 was shot down in l983 by Soviet fighters. The awards are given to the students who best embody the ideals and interests that WuDunn held, including a demonstrated interest in East-West culture and academic excellence.

The Janet B. Chiang Memorial Grants for 2005-2006 have been awarded to Amar A. Shah of Rose Hill, Kan., for a summer research project in Singapore; Mary Ann Nyc of Playa del Rey, Calif., Ai (Chloe) Chien of Yangon, Myanmar, and Hsun-Chin (Kevin) Peng of Hsinchu, Taiwan, for research in Eastern North Carolina on Asian food cultures and Southern health; and Wenwen Mao of Shanghai, China, for attendance at the 2005 Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations conference. Priority in awarding these grants is given to projects that further Asian/American understanding and encourage student leadership.

Sanford Institute

The Terry Sanford Leadership Award will be presented to Anthony Vitarelli, a public policy studies and economics major. Vitarelli recently was selected to serve as Young Trustee on the Duke Board of Trustees. He is planning to attend law school.

Katherine Wilson-Milne will receive the Joel Fleishman Distinguished Scholar award in recognition of her exemplary academic achievement. Wilson-Milne, who majored in public policy studies and African American Studies, was recently selected as a 2005-06 Hart Fellow. She conducted an anthropological research project in Ghana investigating women's perceptions of domestic power dynamics, and has also lived and worked in Uruguay, Romania and Zimbabwe.

Sara Hernandez was selected to speak at the institute's undergraduate ceremony. Hernandez founded a scholarship fund for first-generation college students in the Durham area, and worked with two other Duke students to create a college mentoring program for Durham students.

Master's of Public Policy students selected Paul Stahle to speak on their behalf during the institute's ceremonies, while graduate students in the master's Program in International Development Policy selected Rajiv Jalota.

Winners of the outstanding graduate student award and of the inaugural Dick Stubbing Teacher Mentor Award will be announced at graduation.

Romance Studies

Amy Wai-Jua Cheng received the Richard L. Predmore Award in Spanish.

Bahij Justin Tamer received the Robert J. Niess/Alexander Hull Award in French.

History

Khalid Kurji received the William T. Laprade Prize for the best senior thesis.

The Elizabeth Roberts Cannon Prize was awarded jointly to Lauren Jarvis of Chapel Hill and Crystal Sanders of Clayton.

Crystal Sanders and Christienna Fryar of Virginia Beach, Va., won Andrew W. Mellon Fellowships in Humanistic Studies.

Linda Rupert, of Durham, won the Ida B. Wells Graduate Student Award from the Coordinating Council for Women in History, given to one individual in the United States to support the final stages of dissertation writing.

Jenette Wood Crowley of Salt Lake City won an Anne Firor Scott Award for historical research relating to gender.

Sociology

The Ida Harper Simpson Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Scholarship and Research has been awarded to Regina Holman for her senior thesis called, "My Daddy Wants Tenure: Academic Family Men, Normative Expectations for Today's Family, and Implications for University Family Policy."

Cultural Anthropology

Adam Joel Gorod and Leigh Marin Spoon have been awarded the Judith McDade Prize in Cultural Anthropology, which is given to the graduating seniors majoring in cultural anthropology judged to have the most distinguished record in the major.

English

Edward Helfters of St. Louis won the Anne Flexner Award for Fiction; Chris Good of St. Louis won second place.

Jonathan Fisher and Karen Rembold were co-winners of the Anne Flexner Award for Poetry.

Michaela Kerrissey of Sherborn, Mass., won the Terry Welby Tyler Award for Poetry.

Karen Rembold won first place in the non-fiction essay contest. Matthew Mrkonic won second place and David Gardner of Huntington, Ind., took third.

Talya Lieberman of Forest Hills, N.Y., won the Margaret Rose Knight Sanford Scholarship.

Alessandra Colaianni won the Francis Pemberton Scholarship.

Macy Parker of Raleigh won the William H. Blackburn Scholarship.

Sabrina West of Tucson, Ariz., won the Academy of American Poets Prize.

Catherine Hansen of Japan, Erin Ingraham of East Hampton, N.Y., and Allison Serra of Durham are co-winners of the Award for Outstanding Work in American Literature.

Vanessa Hamer of Cary won the Stanley E. Fish Award for Outstanding Work in British Literature.

David Gardner won the Barbara Herrnstein Smith Award for Outstanding Work in Literary Criticism or Theory.

Micheala Kerrissey won the award for Outstanding and Most Original English Department Honors Thesis.

Palmer Literary Prize

Eric Vivier, a senior from Grand Island, N.Y., has been awarded the 2005 Bascom Headen Palmer Literary Prize for the best senior honors thesis in literary studies.

This prize was established in honor of Judge Bascom Headen Palmer, who graduated from TrinityCollege in 1875. The amount of the prize this year is $1,070.

Vivier is graduating with Highest Distinction in English; the title of his thesis is "The Politics of the Military in the Plays of John Fletcher."

Women's Studies

The Women's Studies Program presented the following awards for merit to students in the program:

The Ernestine Friedl Research Award, which fosters research by graduate students working on the cultural, social & biological constructions of gender, went to graduate students Abigail Salerno, literature; Adrienne Williams, psychology: social and health sciences; Alvaro Jarrin, cultural anthropology; and Rachel Meyers, classical studies.

The Anne McDougall Memorial Award, which supports students doing human service in psychology or related fields, went to graduate students Phyllis Bryant, MALS, and Amy Noll, psychology: social and health sciences.

The Dora Anne Little Award, which goes to students who excel in service to the campus and community, went to Sara Becker, a graduate student in clinical psychology; Allison Brim, a senior women's studies major; and Tamaron Houston, a senior political science/women's studies major.

The Gender and Race Award for students doing research on race and gender, went to Vijay Varma, a senior English major, and Kinohi Nishikawa, a graduate student in literature.

Theater Studies

The Harold Brody Award for Excellence in Musical Theater went to Maura Farver.

The John Clum Distinguished Theater Studies Graduate Award went to Amit Mahtaney and Claire Grandadam.

The Alex Cohen Award for Summer Initiatives in Theater went to Madeleine Lambert and Jimmy Soni.

The Dasha Epstein Award in Playwriting went to Tomas Lopez.

The Dale B.J. Randall Award in Dramatic Literature went to Emily Slater.

The Kenneth J. Reardon Award in Theater Design, Management or Production went to Kate McCormick.

The Richard Cytowic Acting Award went to Dana Berger and Kym Stansell.

The Reynolds Price Award for Scriptwriting went to Martin Zimmerman. Honorable mention went to Shane Ryan.

The Theater Studies Award for Excellence in Directing went to Marshall Botvinick.

Benenson Awards

Benenson Awards ranging were awarded to 17 students who have shown promise in all fields of the arts and literature.

Joost Bosland, a junior from Arnhem, The Netherlands, will do research and curatorial work on an exhibition of art by the black South African artist Ernest Mancoba, to be shown at a gallery in Cape Town, South Africa early in 2006.

Sarah Brodeur, a senior from Lake Forest, Ill., will expand her short documentary film about silent film star Mabel Normand and her relationship with the young Charlie Chaplin, to tell the story of Normand's entire career from 1909-1930.

Ricky Chen, a senior from Lynnfield, Mass., will attend the Squaw Valley Community of Writers Workshop in California this summer to work on revisions to a novella.

Michael Faber, a senior from Baltimore, will create a short animated film addressing the innate differences and subtle connections between mathematics and art.

Rebecca Ann Herman, a senior from Palo Alto, Calif., will do an internship and research project with Memoria Abierto (Open Memory), a human rights organization in Argentina that is creating a "Museum of Memory" in a former detention center. Ms. Herman will explore the value of different types of art in the creation of dialogue about human rights and state terror.

Andrew B. Kay, a senior from Newton, Mass., will do an internship in music booking and management with the Kork Agency, a concert management firm, in preparation for a career in music management.

Davis A. Lewis, a senior from Gettysburg, Pa., will do a documentary photographic essay including aerial photos, supplemented with text and maps, titled "Southern Sprawl: the Pace, Face, and Place of Development in the Triangle." The project draws on the student's coursework in policy studies, documentary photography, and environmental issues.

Lauren Miller, a senior from Chicago, will do research and skill-building in lighting, graphic design, digital photography toward creation of a prototype book about dorm room design to submit for publication, building on an earlier version titled Shack to Shangri-La.

Erica Mutchler, a senior from Harrington Park, N.J., will create visual journals of photography and mixed media documenting and reflecting upon the communities within Spain's youth hostels, exploring people in transitional stages in their lives.

Vanesssa Rodriguez, a junior from Coral Gables, Fla., will do research, followed by dialect and fight training in preparation for a play about women's issues in Belfast, Northern Ireland, to be directed in winter of 2006 as part of her senior honors project.

Kymberlie Stansell, a senior from Chapel Hill, will attend the Eugene O'Neill National Theater Institute in the fall of 2005, offering intensive, in-depth study in directing, playwriting, acting and design.

Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, a sophomore from San Jose, Calif., will do summer study at Kalamandalam, a commune in southern India, to study the Mohiniyattam dance form for a project "The Dancer as Communard: Documentation of Mohiniyattam Training in a 21st Century Gurukul."

Naike Swai, a sophomore from Moshi, Tanzania, will travel and study in Beijing, China with Students of the World, focusing on the potential for documentary work to function as an agent for social change and cross-cultural understanding. The specific project will deal with depicting attitudes toward HIV/AIDS among urban youth in Beijing through documentary film.

Sudler Prize

Amit Mahtaney, a native of Madras, India, who is graduating with a major in Theater Studies and a minor in English at Duke, has been selected to receive the 2005 Sudler Prize, awarded to the graduating senior with the most distinguished record of excellence in performance or creation in one or more areas of the arts.

Amit Mahtaney has distinguished himself as an actor, a director, and a student leader in the area of theater throughout his four years as an undergraduate at Duke. He has performed as an actor in ten productions, in both faculty-directed departmental productions, and with the student-run Duke Players and WendellTheater companies.

In addition, he acted in a major role for the professional off-campus Manbites Dog Theater Company. He directed eight plays, including Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts, his senior thesis project. He received a Benenson Award in 2004 to conduct research for that production. His production of Terrence McNally's A Perfect Ganesh was also singled out as a highly accomplished piece of work.

Hart Fellows

The Hart Leadership Program has selected its 2005-2006 Hart fellows. The fellows are placed with organizations throughout the developing world to conduct research and fieldwork on pressing policy issues:

Jennifer Hasvold from Rapid City, S.D., graduated this spring with a political science major and a health policy and chemistry minor. She will work in Battambang, Cambodia, with Homeland, which works to improve the standard of living and well-being of vulnerable children and families.

Hayden Kantor from Pleasantville, N.Y., graduated this spring with a political science major and English and history minors. His senior thesis examines the rates of violence against civilians in ethnic civil wars. Hayden will work in Jodhpur, India, with GRAVIS, a local non-governmental organization dedicated to working with the poor to foster rural development.

Michaela Kerrissey from Sherborn, Mass., graduated this spring with an English and political science double major. She will work in Kampala, Uganda, with NACWOLA (National Community of Women Living with AIDS), an organization dedicated to helping women with AIDS and their families.

Lauren Jarvis from Chapel Hill graduated this spring with a history major. She will work in Stellenbosch, South Africa, with Women on Farms, a local organization that works to empower women farmworkers to improve their living and working conditions and achieve gender equality in the workplace, the home, the farming community and in broader society.

Katherine Wilson-Milne from Needham, Mass., graduated this spring with a public policy studies and African American Studies major and German minor. As an undergraduate, she conducted an anthropological research project in Ghana investigating women's self-perceptions of domestic power dynamics and women's agency in the home environment. She will work in South Africa.

Mark Younger from Menlo Park, Calif., graduated in 2003 with an electrical and computer engineering major and a religion minor. He will work in Cotzal, Guatemala, with the AGROS Foundation, which works with rural poor families in developing countries to help them break free from poverty through such initiatives as land acquisition, building village infrastructure, and developing economic capacity.

William Griffith Awards

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:

Giuseppe Aguanno of Staten Island, N.Y., Nicholas Meachem Alexander of Salisbury, Joshua Will Allen-Dicker of Great Neck, N.Y., Megan Englar Andrew of Blacksburg, Va., Mary Ellison Baars of Pensacola, Fla., Richelle Nanette Bartlett of Port Chester, N.Y., Michael James Belsante of Califon, N.J., Pavan Kumar Bhatraju of Pikeville, Ky., Jonathan Charles Bigelow of Lumberton,

Allison Grace Brim of Charlotte, Brandy Collette Canady of Rialto, Calif., Yvonne Cao of Senlis, France, Valeta Carol Chancey of Ozark, Ala., Huaiyuan Chen of Beijing, China, William Dwight Connolly III of Naperville, Ill., Laurel Nicole Cooper of Sterling, Va., Andrew Cummings of Durham, Elizabeth Rose Dixon of Mercer Island, Wash., Amanda Lamar Earp of Greensboro,

James Song Floyd of Tacoma, Wash., Jamie Lynn Frank of Plymouth, Mass., Adam Paige Hall of Kings Mountain, Julia Walker Hamilton of Atlanta, Megan Marie Hanson of Barrington, Ill., Natalie Reid Hardwick of Nichols, S.C., Anna Dunn Hoffius of Charleston, S.C., Andrew Bruce Holbrook of Norfolk, Va., Tamaron Gloveshia Houston of Stafford, Texas,

Kori Dashah Jones of Woodbridge, Va., Aneil Prem Lala of Barrington, Ill., Amy Melanie Lazarus of Shaker Heights, Ohio, Hilary Anne McKean-Peraza of Chapel Hill, Meera Piyush Patel of Somerset, Ky., Mrinali Mrugendra Patel of Richlands, Va., Joseph Andrew Picoraro of South Portland, Maine, David Eliot Rausen of Newton, Mass., Elizabeth Frey Reaves of Lake Oswego, Ore.,

Ashley Lauren Rudisill of Greenville, S.C., Crystal Renee Sanders of Clayton, William Campbell Schnackel of Akron, Ohio, Eric Mark Schwartz of Potomac, Md., Christopher Eugene Goerdt Scoville of Grain Valley, Mo., Justin Isaac Segall of Denver, Colo., Kristen Renee Spencer of Oakhurst, N.J., Vijay Srinivasan of West Chennai, India, David Gilbert Strauss of Rockville, Md.,

Pascale Marie Thomas of St. Louis, Mo., Anthony William Vitarelli of Marlton, N.J., Melissa Joy Wachtel of Potomac, Md., Ryan Charles Welsh of Sidney, Ohio, Brian Fields West of Salem, Ore., Alice Miller Williamson of Charlotte, and Amanda Leah Zimmerman of Weston, Fla.