National Awards
Rhodes
Scholarship
Duke University
senior Jared Dunnmon
of Cincinnati was among
the 32 recipients selected this year for prestigious Rhodes Scholarships.
Dunnmon, an A.B.
Duke Scholar and past recipient of Goldwater Scholarships in Science,
Mathematics and Engineering, was chosen from among 837 applicants at 309 colleges
and universities throughout the country. He is the 43rd student in Duke's
history to receive a Rhodes Scholarship.
Dunnmon is a
mechanical engineering and economics major whose research has focused on novel
and renewable energy sources. Working with Duke engineering professors Earl
Dowell and Jonathan Protz, Dunnmon designed and tested clusters of
micro-turbine devices in a wind tunnel to determine how much power they could
produce from unusual wind flows, such as those between tall urban buildings.
Marshall
Scholarship
Three Duke
University seniors -- Nicolas Altemose,
Katherine Buse and Alessondra
(Allie) Speidel -- have been awarded Marshall Scholarships to continue in their respective fields of study after
graduation.
Altemose, a
biology major from Temecula, Calif., 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
continue research in this area at the University of Oxford.
Buse, from
Chapel Hill, is an English major studying the role of catastrophe in
contemporary fiction. She will pursue a degree in science fiction and
contemporary literature at the University of Liverpool.
Speidel, a
biomedical engineering major from Manlius, N.Y., plans to study biomedical
research and translational medicine at Imperial College London.
Beinecke
Scholarship
James Gerienchen, a graduating senior with a major in
history and Asian and Middle Eastern studies, won a Beinecke Scholarship in
2010 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.
Truman
Scholarship
Lindsey
Marie Wallace, a
graduating political science and psychology major whose extracurricular
activities include working with recovering addicts in Durham and animal welfare
causes, received a Truman Scholarship in 2010.
Truman Scholars
are chosen based on their academic success, leadership potential and commitment
to a career in public service.
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 nominating department are: Katherine
Buse (English), Alan Guo
(Mathematics), and Maria Huang
(Biology). Honorable mention went
to Caitlin Drescher (Neuroscience
& Chemistry) and Jared Dunnmon (Mechanical
Engineering & Economics)
Art, Art History
and Visual Studies
Justine Robyn Tiu and Nina
L. Wu earned the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation Visual Arts Award
Jennifer Sydney Burka and Anna
Haldeman Ruddle received the Nancy Kaneb Art History Award
Sarah Victoria Goetz won the Sue and Lee Noel Prize in the
Visual Arts Award
Lucas Caldwell Best and Christine
Rose DiNicola received the Visual Studies Initiative Award
Arts of the
Moving Image
Kevin Hao Wu and Melanie
Plageman earned the Outstanding Undergraduate Filmmaker Award
Athletics
Dorian Alexander Cohen and Reka
Zsilinszka earned the ACC Plaque for Excellence, Scholarship and Athletics
Biology
Jeff J. Shi received the James B. Rast Memorial
Award in Comparative Organismal Biology
Nicolas Frank Altemose earned the Edward C. Horn Memorial Prize
for Excellence in Biology
Amanda Yuan Sun won the Excellence in Plant Science
Prize
Molly Elizabeth Walsh won the Maggie Schneider Award in Marine
Biology
Business
Matthew Brandon Lehigh earned the Asa T. Spaulding, Sr. Award
for Leadership
Jin Huang won the Breeden Award in Finance
Brian Seth Alvo and Yu
Chi took Distinguished Service Awards
Dean's
Recognition Awards went to Nadia Lucia
Berrio Roa, Spencer Catherine Busby, Lucas Andrew Chapin, Shal Uddin Chowdhury,
Rhianon Tara Deleeuw, Kevin Andrew Henze, Erin Conaty Kruse
Gloria Kar-Yee Lee, Allison Diane Mooney,
Mallory Dupree Mooser, Andres Moreno, Jill Janaína Otto, Garner Lowell Rivard,
Brandon A. Rodriguez, Katherine Marie Scearce, Meredith Ann Seurkamp and Hitoshi
Takamoto
Dean's
Leadership Awards went to Joyce J. He,
Gregory Lee Keeney, Nora Matossian Saunders
and Jorge Luis Vela
Jonathan Barr Blanton and Rexford
Lee Morey won the Keohane Leadership Award
David Harriman Phillips received the Alan D. Schwartz Award for
Mentorship
Chemistry
Lucy Boyce Kennedy earned the American Chemical Society
Undergraduate Award in Analytical Chemistry
Rui Jiang, Vijay Krishna Prabhakar and William
Paul Skelton IV won the Merck Index Award
Ashton Chuck-Wing Lai earned the Department of Chemistry Award
Zachary Andrew Hing received the Hypercube Scholar Award
Classical
Studies
Amol Ashwin Sura took the David Taggart Clark Prize in
Classical Studies
Cultural
Anthropology
Michelle Hyun Choi and Christen
Marie Tricoli received the Judith E. McDade Prize in Cultural Anthropology
Leah Madeline McCrary won the Paul Farmer Award for Justice
and Social Responsibility
Dance
Noel Susberry earned the Julia Wray Dance Award
Kadeisha Kilgore received the Dance Writing Award.
Monica Hogan won the Clay Taliaferro Dance Award.
Divinity
Jennifer Lynn Benedict and Ryan Greasor Spurrier received the top GPA Award, with each earning a perfect 4.0 grade point average for their entire academic careers at the school.
Jack Curtis Lowndes and Andrea
Nicole Pippins received the Award for Excellence in Bible
Paul Sellars Atlas and Mark
Christopher Gorman won the Seminarian Award of the Fellowship of United Methodists in Music and Worship Arts
Laura Michelle Beach earned the Hoyt Hickman Award for
Excellence in Liturgics
Bonnie
Elisabeth Scott won
the Jameson Jones Preaching Award
McMurry Richey
Awards went to Paul Sellars Atlas
for Outstanding Student Pastor; Gerard
Nsabimana for Outstanding Student in Field Education; and Darriel Bobby Harris for Outstanding
Student in Missions
Documentary
Studies
Sarah Victoria
Goetz received the Julia
Harper Day Award for Documentary Studies
Jonathan Pattishall,
Dorje Dondrub, Shining Li and Eddie Wu
received John Hope Franklin Awards
Duke Union
Melanie
Plageman received the Hal Kammerer Memorial Prize for Film and Video
Production.
Economics
Shih-Kai (Jeffrey) Shen won the Allen Starling Johnson
Jr. Best Thesis Prize
Kaylyn Swankowski won the Allen Starling
Johnson Jr. Outstanding Honors Symposium Presentation
Caitlin Gorback won the faculty vote for Allen Starling
Johnson Jr. Outstanding Honors Posters. The student vote resulted in a tie
between Karna Mital, Steven
Seidel/Josh Silverman Amy Zhang
Rebecca Agostino, Caitlin
Gorback, Kunal Jain, Kevin Kupiec, Richard Li, Haiying Li, Karna Mital,
Johnathan Pryor, Steven Seidel, Shih-Kai (Jeffrey) Shen, Joshua Silverman and
Yiwen Zhu won for High Distinction
in Economics and Distinction in Research
William Benesh, Rachel
Blum, Joanna Bromley, Celeste Clipp, Yang Ding, Jared Goodman, Chengyu Li,
Yamini Misra, Chen Ni, Robert Nowak, Suanna Oh, Alexandra Oprea, Angela Minwood
Ryu, Rollin Say, Andrew Schwert, Maxim Sirenko, Xiaoyue Zhang, Rujia Zhou and
Jason Wong (Spring 2012 graduate) won the Distinction in Economics and Distinction in
Research
Anna Burke, Sarah Freitas and won for Distinction in
Research
Education
Jenessa Laura Malin and Nina
L. Wu won the Winfred Quinton Holton Prize in Education. Honorable Mention
went to Andrew Timothy Pettit and Heather Darling Wiese.
Engineering
Trishna Kathryn Lowe and Anna
Katherine Sleeter won the American Society of Civil Engineers Prize
Steven Joseph Bolger earned The Helmholtz Award
Justin Mark Haseltine and Niruban
Maheswaranathan received the Otto Meier Jr., Tau Beta Pi Award
Andrew Joseph Wood earned the Aubrey E. Palmer Award
Andrew Joseph Harris and Matthew
Marsh Wander won the Eric I. Pas Award
Kathleen C Apibunyopas took the Theo Pilkington Award
Sabrina Grace Liao and Eric
Niles Liberty Thorne won the Charles Seager Memorial Award
Corinne Elizabeth Horn received the George Sherrerd III
Memorial Award in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Trisha Kathryn Lowe and Andrew
Joseph Wood won the William Brewster Snow Environmental Engineering Award
Trisha Kathryn Lowe and Maura
Hannan Mulroy received the Student Service Award
Corinne Elizabeth Horn earned the Charles Rowe Vail Memorial
Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award
Ralph Nathan won the David Randall Fuller Prize
English
Ashley Chang received the Academy of American Poets
Prize and the Louis J. Budd American Literature Award
Julia Marie Love and
Staci Jon'A Miller earned the Margaret Rose Knight Sanford Scholarship
Shining Li, Connor Southard and
Thomas Gebremedhin received the Anne Flexner Award for Creative Writing in
Fiction
Yujin Chun and
Elizabeth Beam received the Anne Flexner Award in Poetry
Patrick Allen Baker earned the Critical Essay Contest prize
Katherine Elizabeth Buse was honored for the Most Original
English Department Honors Thesis and received the Schutte Senior Award
Rachel Michelle Stern earned the Stanley Fish British
Literature Award
Lydia Rappaport-Hankins received the Francis K. Pemberton Award
Sarah Bartleson received the Terry Welby Tyler Jr. Award
for Creative Writing
The William M.
Blackburn Scholarship went to Hillary
Martinez, Abram Smith and Vivian Zou
Environment
Sarah Elizabeth Safley earned the Sara LaBoskey Award
History
Ryan Lenora Brown received the William T. Laprade Prize in
History
Mathematics
Alan Xinyu Guo and
Mikhail Petrovich Lavrov won the Julia Dale Prize in Mathematics. Lavrov also won the Karl Menger Award
for Superior Performance in the 71st William Lowell Putnam Competition
Military Science
Kase William Diehl and
Wesley Charles Norris were Distinguished Military Graduates
Music
George Tsz-Kwan Lam won the William Klenz Prize in
Composition
Tiffany Yun Pao won the Julia Wilkinson Mueller Prize
for Excellence in Music
Anthony Vito Alberti earned the Henry Schuman Music Prize
Christopher Vernon Sikes-Keilp received the Ann Marie Parsons Award
Nasher Museum
Andrew Huff, Kara Li and
Rebecca Stone earned Mary Duke Biddle Foundation Summer Internship Awards
in Museum Studies
Kristin Oakley received the Trent A. and Susan L.
Carmichael Internship
Naval Science
Zachary Adam Chapla won the American Veterans Award
Travis Joseph Rapp earned the CNO Distinguished Midshipman
Graduate Award
Kaitlin Ashleigh Smith received the Daughters of the American
Revolution Award
Travis Joseph Rapp received the Fred Knops Leadership Award
Blair Bryant Woolheater earned the Naval Submarine League
Outstanding Achievement Award
Nursing
Maria Dawn Johnson earned the Agatha Hodgins Award for
Outstanding Student Performance
Edwin Ngomueh Aroke won the Annie Beery Bieber Award for
Outstanding Leadership
Dayna Amanda Seguin received the Nurse Anesthesia Program
Faculty Excellence Award
Matthew Jamison Stampler received the Nurse Anesthesia Program
Leadership in Action Award
Emma Rose Barnett and
Stephanie June Whitlark won the Ruby L. Wilson Excellence in Clinical
Practice Award
Edwin Ngomueh Aroke earned the Thelma Ingles Excellence in
Clinical Expertise and Scholarly Activities Award
Steven Ray Wooden received the Outstanding DNP Capstone
Project Award
Mark Pottis Toles earned the The Distinguished
Dissertation Award
Political
Science
The Alona E. Evans
Prize in International Law went to Joseph
Patrick Catapano, Erin Anne Cloninger and Maxwell Phillip Kligerman
Kenneth Stewart Day earned the Robert S. Rankin Award in
American Government and Constitutional Law
Andrew Tyler Ognibene won the Robert S. Rankin Award in
American, National, State, and Local Governments
Michael Hudson Krekel and
Michael E. Warady received the Robert S. Rankin American Government Award
for Leadership and Academic Achievement
Dustin Mitchell Gamza and
Alexandra Oprea won the Elizabeth G. Verville Award. Honorable Mention went
to Benjamin Zoltan Bergmann and Matthew Henry Graham
Jennifer Erin Rowland and
Jiakun Jack Zhang earned the Ole R. Holsti Award in American Foreign Policy
and International Relations
Psychology
Jenessa Laura Malin earned the Karl E. Zener Award for
Outstanding Performance of an Undergraduate Major in Psychology
Public Policy
Studies
Sarah A. Chapin received the Joel Fleishman Distinguished
Scholar Award for highest academic achievement in public policy studies.
Alexander J. Reese won the Terry Sanford Leadership Award.
Megan R. Cheney was cited for the Best Honors Thesis for
"Breakfast Breakdown: Examining Systematic Differences in Compliance with
Nutrient Guidelines in the School Breakfast Program."
Romance Studies
Anne Marie Gordon won the Robert J. Niess/Alexander Hull
Award in French. She also received the Richard L. Predmore Award in Spanish
Alyssa Madeline Granacki and
Mackenzie Lauren Kahnke won the Guido Mazzoni Award in Italian
Theater Studies
Heather Wiese won the Harold Brody Award for
Excellence in Musical Theater. She also received the Richard E. Cytowic Award
for the Outstanding Student in Acting
Ben Bergmann received the John M. Clum Distinguished
Drama Award
Afftene Taylor earned the Alex Cohen Awards for Summer
Initiatives in Theater
Emily Gall and
Lauren Gonzalez received the Dale B. J. Randall Award in Dramatic Literature
Don Tucker earned the Kenneth J. Reardon Award for
Theater Design, Management or Production
Utrophia Robinson received the Jody McAuliffe Award for
Excellence in Directing
Irene Falk won the Reyonds Price Award
Women's Studies
Alissa Wigdor (Psychology & Neuroscience) and Leah Madeline McCrary (Cultural
Anthropology) won the Anne McDougall Memorial Award given to a female
undergraduate or graduate student who pursues areas of human service by
studying psychology and related fields.
Gender and Race
Research Awards given to undergraduate and graduate students whose projects promote
scholarly exploration and research on topics of gender and race, went to: Layla Brown (English) for "Raising Voices, Building
History: Afro-Venezuelan Women and the Bolivarian Revolution"; Yoonhyun Cho (Economics and Political
Science) for "Rebuilding Women's Rights in Haiti"; Kristen Lee
(Sociology) "Racialized Love"; Anne
Phillips (History) for "Adulterous Wives and Murderous Husbands:
Governance, Gendered Violence, and East Indian Indentureship in the British
Atlantic, 1858-1917"; and Georgia Paige
Welch (History) "Right of Way: The Trans-Alaska Pipeline and the 1970s
Frontier"
Dora Anne Little
Awards, 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, went to: Julia Finch (Women’s Studies) for "Bridging the Gap
Between Feminist Theory and Activism in the Duke and Durham Communities"; Sophie Smith (Literature) "No More
Deaths"; and Trent Serwetz (Women’s
Studies) "Women’s Institute for Freedom of the Press, Womens Law, and Legal Aid
Societies"
Trinity College
of Arts and Sciences
Kelsey Lynn Cameron earned the Bascom Headen Palmer Literary
Prize
Junève Gracieux earned the James Rolleston Prize for
Best Honors Thesis Written in a Foreign Language
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: Violeta Foreman, Sarah
Goetz, Monica Hogan, Brooke Kingsland, Courtney Liu, Richard Paez, May
Robinson, Justine Tiu
and Da Yang.
Sarah Victoria
Goetz received the Louis
B. Sudler Prize in the Creative and Performing Arts
Phi Beta Kappa
The following
students graduated with Phi Beta Kappa honors:
Charles Joseph Abolt,
Eanas Fatima
Aboobakar,
Nicolas Frank
Altemose
Jonathan Elliot
Amgott
Benjamin David
Arnstein
Harold Shao Xian Au
Stephen Rodrick
Bardin
Michael David Bern
Carter Hamilton Boyle
Joanna Arline Bromley
Jonathan Michael
Bullock
Katherine Elizabeth
Buse
Joseph Patrick
Catapano
Megan R Cheney
Michelle Hyun Choi
Yang Ding
Caitlin Stefanie Drescher
Jared Alexander
Dunnmon
Margaret Anne Fields
Jeremy Ezra Friehling
Amanda Jean Mae Gill
Lydia Kathryn Greene
Alan Xinyu Guo
Gregory Lawrence
Halperin
Elizabeth Anne Harlow
Ryan Augustus
Hennessee
Duc A Ho
Huang Huang
Wynn Gordon Hunter
Ryan Elizabeth Ingram
Brian Gabriel Jiang
Manoj Kannusamy
Samantha Erin Kaufman
Jenny Anne Kelemen
Brooke S Kingsland
Michael Hudson Krekel
George Christopher
Leef
Robert Seath Stark
Lehman
Lindsay Michelle
Levine
Neha Pradeep Limaye
Cassie Ann Ludwig
Natalie Arianna
Macaruso
Jessica Claire
MacFarlane
Laura Katherine
Manson
Karna Mital
Chen Ni
Alexandra Oprea
Brian Pike
Nicole Elise Queathem
Justin F. Robinette
Meghan Lorraine
Rudder
Caroline Hope Schaer
Brian Richmond
Solomon
Melanie Preethika
Subramanian
Amanda Sun
Kathryn Lee Swails
Matthew Allen
Tesarfreund
Zachary Paul Tracer
Andrew Joseph Walker
Rachel Diane
Willcutts
Li-En Daniel Wong