Student Honors and Laurels for 2020
Congratulations to the following student award winners from Duke University units in 2020.
African & African American Studies
John Hope Franklin Award for Academic Excellence: Elizabeth DuBard Grantland
Karla FC Holloway Award for University Service: Beza Gebremariam
Mary McLeod Bethune Writing Award: Jenna Clayborn
Walter C. Burford Award for Community Service: Kayla Lynn Corredera-Wells
Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Mary Duke Biddle Foundation Visual Art Award: Paulina Asturias
Nancy Kaneb Art History Award: Ashleigh Cheryl Elizabeth Smith and Jessica Chen
Sue and Lee Noel Prize in Visual Arts: Kyle Paul Harvey
Visual Studies Initiative Award: Charles Shepard Berman, Cyan Jade DeVeaux, Paloma Jasmine Rodney and Sonia Fillipow
Arts of the Moving Image
Outstanding Undergraduate Filmmaker Award: Joshua Alex Yip
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
Outstanding AMES Honors Thesis: Jessica Marlow
Asian Pacific Studies Institute
Sirena WuDunn Memorial Scholarship: Yutao Gong, Michael Tan, Alethea Toh and Qingning Zhang
Athletics
ACC Plaque for Excellence, Scholarship and Athletics: Eoin P. Gronningsater and Alyssa Jean Marsh
Biology
Biology Faculty Award : Katja Helgeson Kochvar, Tanmayi Deepak Vashist and Frederick Max Xu
Edward C. Horn Memorial Prize for Excellence in Biology: Nathan Christopher Shaul
Excellence in Plant Science Prize: Barbara Lynn Weaver
James B. Rast Memorial Award in Comparative Organismal Biology: Lucy Michelle Greenwald
Maggie Schneider Award in Marine Biology: Alexandra Eva DiGiacomo
Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
Chair's Academic Recognition Award: Elizabeth Lydon
Outstanding Master's Project Award-Clinical & Translational Research: Andrea Fay Carmack
Outstanding Master's Project Award-Data Science: Yiqi Yao
Outstanding Master's Project Award-Methodology: Noah Thomas Graham
Overall Academic Excellence Award: Xianglin Zhao
Student Leadership Award: Elizabeth Lydon
Chemistry
American Chemical Society Undergraduate Award in Inorganic Chemistry: Azim Dharani
American Chemical Society Undergraduate Award in Organic Chemistry: Jea Hyun Kim
American Chemical Society Undergraduate Award in Physical Chemistry: Jenny Lee
Department of Chemistry Award: Kunal Shroff
Merck Index Award: Bryce Filip Starr and Elena Anne Puccio
Classical Studies
Classical Association of the Middle West and South Award for Outstanding Accomplishment in Classical Studies: Sean Kassim Fern Rafique
David Taggart Clark Prize in Classical Studies: Gretchen Elise Wright and Katherine Brookshire Owensby
Outreach Prize: Saumya Sao
Computer Science
Alex Vasilos Award: Caroline Linjun Wang and Sachit Menon
DeNardis Award: Belanie Nagiel and Shrey Gupta
Cultural Anthropology
Judith McDade Prize in Cultural Anthropology: Isabel Panno Shepard
Paul Farmer Award for Justice and Social Responsibility: Kayla Corredera-Wells
Dance
Julia Wray Memorial Dance Award: SarahAnne Perel and Connie Zhou
Clay Taliaferro Dance Award: Cordelia Hogan
Dance Writing Award: Cordelia Hogan
Doctor of Physical Therapy
ACAPT National Student Honor Society: Bryce Joseph Olsen, Jessica Danielle Mah, Meghan Babcock Hartman, Melissa Carolyn Minniti, Morgan Mummey Semmel and Sierra Alexandra Muir
Cultural Diversity Award: Yusra Shaukat Iftikhar
Diversity and Leadership Scholarship: Aakriti Agrawal, Andy Seraphin, Logan James Couce, Luis Felipe Freile, Madeline Anne Roberts, Poli'ala Alexis Warwick, Vaclav Bednar, Yusra Shaukat Iftikhar
Duke DPT Student Excellence Scholarship: James Mitchell Lane, Jessica Danielle Mah, Lisa Hannah Shirafuji, Logan James Couce and Meghan Babcock Hartman
F. Edward Hébert Armed Forces Health Professions Scholarship: Bryce Joseph Olsen, Courtney Grace Perkins, and Melissa Carolyn Minniti
Helen Kaiser Duke Physical Therapy Alumni Association Award: Yusra Shaukat Iftikhar
Helen Kaiser Physical Therapy Scholarship: David Matthew Rowland and Nicolette Rae Ingel
Jan Gwyer Student Recognition Award for Academic, Clinical, and Scholarly Excellence: Lisa Hannah Shirafuji
Robert Bartlett Student Recognition Award for Service and Leadership Excellence: James Mitchell Lane
Documentary Studies
Julia Harper Day Award for Documentary Studies: James Alden Robinson
Duke Divinity School
Award for Excellence in Bible: Caleb Neal Punt and Timothy Stephen Holm
Frederick Buechner Writing Award: Shelley Catherine Leazer
Heitzenrater Award for Excellence in History: Jennifer Young Tu
Hoyt Hickman Award for Excellence in Liturgics: Hannah Marie Sipes
Jameson Jones Preaching Award: Camille Arianna Loomis and Orlander Ray Thomas
McMurry Richey Award in Field Education: Claire Elizabeth Latimer-Dennis and Saul Gastelum Flores
McMurry Richey Award in Missions: Howard Cha Young Kim
McMurry Richey Student Pastor: Orlander Ray Thomas
Duke Global Health Institute
DGHI Award for Exemplary Global Health Leadership: Andrea Leigh Koris, Laura Mkumba and Yadurshini Raveendran
Madeline Boccuzzi Outstanding Master of Science in Global Health Student Award: Godfrey Kisigo
Michael Merson Undergraduate Student Leadership Award in Global Health: Vincenzo Malo and Miranda Metz
Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute
Oliver W. Koonz Human Rights Prize: Erin Kay Williams, James Alden Robinson and Selin Ocal
Duke Service-Learning
Betsy Alden Outstanding Service-Learning Award: Axel Aldair Herrera Ramos
Office of Durham and Regional Affairs
Lars Lyon Volunteer Service Award: Victoria Bevard
Earth and Ocean Sciences
Thomas V. Laska Award: Jennifer Susan Marsh
Economics
Best Thesis: Ralph Ignacio Lawton
Duke Department of Economics Master's Program Award for Academic Excellence: Haolin Wu and Haoqi Tong
Duke Department of Economics Master's Program Award for Leadership: Sahil Khatkar, Samuel Andres Dinamarca De Kok and Yuhan Zheng
Education
D.T. Stallings Award: Milan Peyton Hamilton and Michelle Ping Qiou
Dr. Phail Wynn Jr. Leadership in Education Award: Milan Peyton Hamilton and Raisa Reed
Virginia S. Wilson Excellence in Teaching Award: Kaitlyn Howie
English
Academy of American Poets Prize: Daniela Stephanou
Award for Most Original Honors Thesis: Alice Dai and Valerie Elaine Muensterman
Barbara Hernnstein Smith Award for Outstanding Work in Literary Criticism or Theory: Brennen Michael Neeley and Megison Montgomery Hancock
George P. Lucaci Award for Creative Non-Fiction: Julia Wang, Natalie Abrams and Rayan Tofique
Louis J. Budd Award for Outstanding Work in American Literature: Arjun Jay Arora
Reynolds Price Award for Fiction: Caroline Waring
Stanley E. Fish Award for Outstanding Work in British Literature: Joel Richard Mire
Terry Welby Tyler, Jr Award for Poetry: Sophia Claire Laettner
Environment
Sara LaBoskey Award: Margaret Katherine Overton
Evolutionary Anthropology
Mossé Awards for Excellence in Research in Evolutionary Anthropology: David Jimenez-Vallejo and Jennifer Jin Han
Forever Duke Student Leadership Award
Forever Duke Student Leadership Award: Morgan Avery Bird, Francisco Crespo, Daniel James Gardner, Rose Kimberly Graves, Avani Gupta, Rashmi Joglekar, Samuel Lester, Tinashe Edward Nyanhete, Shyam Pradheep, Renee Ragin, Timothy John Skapek, Lusine Stepanyan, Diamond J. Zambrano and Linda Zhang
Fuqua School of Business
Alan D. Schwartz Award for Mentorship: Matthew Joseph Nilles
Asa T. Spaulding, Sr. Award for Leadership: Mary Claudia Fernandez
Deans' Recognition Awards: Amelia Paige Wise, Andres Nicolas Chenlo, Dawn Marshall Warren, Brittany Elizabeth Beavers, Carolyn Elizabeth Naughton, Elizabeth Claiborne Ulman, Eyal Gibstein, Federico Lupo del Bono, John Alexander MacDonald, Jonathan Thanh Khiet Pham, Jordan Michael Katz, Kedar Meghashyam Khanolkar, Kiersten Alexis Chresfield, Mariana Quintanilha Imbroisi Mattos, Mary McCallen Moser, Michael Bennett Belick, Michael Joseph Espericueta, Rachel Shannon Shapiro, Samuel Greene Klein and William Hollister Armour
Distinguished Service Award: Anna Elizabeth Sturkey, Han-Chieh Chang, Katherine Lynn Bell and Mengfu Zou
Fuqua HSM Leadership Award: Sravya Ravali Durbha, Kevin Louis O’Brien, Mariel Jean Lambrukos and Jameelah Melton
Keohane Leadership Award: George McCall Jenkinson and Sahana Qaundinya
The Breeden Award in Finance: John Brady Stovall and Willam Henry Hodges III
Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies
Dora Anne Little Award: Erin Kay Williams
Graduate School
Dean’s Awards for Excellence in Teaching: Hannah Lee Rogers, Chelsea Elizabeth Conner Garber and Cherie Conley
History
William T. Laprade Prize: Helena Emire Guenther
International Comparative Studies Program
Distinguished Thesis Award: Ivan Bradley Robles
International Master of Environmental Policy
Student Leadership Award: Yidan Chu
Highest Achieving Student Award: Kameron Eric Schroeder
Linguistics Program
The Distinguished Thesis Award in Linguistics: Meredith Stern Manson and Katherine Brookshire Owensby
Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture
Julius Abele Awards, Undergraduates: Tyler Edwards, Cartier Robinson, De’Ja Wood, James Mbuthia Ndung’u, Corey Pilson, Bruny Kenou, Kelyce Allen and Kiamya Philson
Julius Abele Awards, Graduates: Chavis Jones, Morine Cebert, Jewel Scott, Renata Poulton Kamakura, Rheaya Willis, Gwenaelle Thomas and Kirsten Simmons
Mathematics
Excellence In Research Award: Alexandru Damian, Anne Blythe Davis and Onkar Singh Gujral
Julia Dale Prize in Mathematics: Alexandru Damian and Onkar Singh Gujral
Karl Menger Award: Albert Shaoyang Xue, Alexandru Damian, Junghyun Hwang, Junmo Ryang, Kelly Zhang, Shicheng Rao and Vinit Ranjan
Medicine
Alpha Omega Alpha Amanda Rose Lucier, Cody Shaw Nelson, Reynolds Seyferth, Elizabeth Pennington Howell, Heather Rose Frank, Helen Anastasia Daifotis, Kevin Helmkamp, Kelly Lynn Buchanan, Malhar Piyush Patel, Margaret Marie Coates, Melissa Hannah Ross, Nathan Jacob Brajer, Nicole Hitesh Dalal, Rebecca Lee Vernon, Samuel Augustus Hofacker and Victoria Ann Wickenheisser
Arnold P. Gold Foundation Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award: Robert Matthew Gramer
Brenda Armstrong Living the Dream Award: Arakua Naa Korkoi Welbeck, Peter Sandalio Callejo-Black and William Lamar Grant, Jr.
Clinical and Translational Science Award: Alan Zambeli-Ljepovic and Priscila P. Cunha
Clinical and Translational Science Institute: Motolani Oyeyemi, Robert Matthew Gramer, Seung Yong Ji and Terrell Jamar Jones
Dean's Merit Scholarship: Celia Elizabeth Reynolds, Charlton Tsai, Cosette DeChant Champion, Elisabeth Reynolds Seyferth, Heather Rose Frank, James Hilton Powers, Malhar Piyush Patel, Margaret Marie Coates, Melissa Hannah Ross, Meredith Anne Achey, Nathan Jacob Brajer, Raeann Lanae Whitney, Rebecca Lee Vernon, Sarah Katherine Nullmeyer, Seung Yong Ji, Sydney Elizabeth Reed, Thomas Isaac Neufeld and Tiffany Wei Dong
Dean's Recognition Award: Aarti Maitreya Thakkar, Deborah Motolani Oyeyemi, Jennifer Drucker Varner, Meredith Anne Achey, Oludamilola Adeola Aladesanmi, Raeann Lanae Whitney and Victoria Lee Robinson
Dean's Tuition Scholarship: Joshua S. D'Arcy, Megan Marie Smith, Nnamdi Amilo, Peter Sandalio Callejo-Black, Priscila P. Cunha and Terrell Jamar Jones
Donald B. Hackle Fellowship: Celia Elizabeth Reynolds and Jonathan Lloyd Bell
Doris Duke Award: Aarti Maitreya Thakkar, Amanda Rose Lucier, Jennifer Drucker Varner and Sruti Pisharody
Dr. Bernard Carrol Research Award: Alexander J. Hish
Duke Institute for Health Innovation Award: Christelle Kim Tan, Heather Rosett, Joshua Kevin Helmkamp, Karishma Sriram, Kristin M. Corey, Malhar Piyush Patel and Morgan Geraghty Simons
Eugene A. Stead Student Research Scholarship: Andrew Buhl Barbour, Chelsea Noel Handfield, Cierra Sooin Hong, Maya Japira Torain, Melissa Hannah Ross, Meredith Anne Achey, Raeann Lanae Whitney, Victoria Ann Wickenheisser and Vinay K. Giri
Fogerty Fellowship: Elena Rhys Cutting
Howard Hughes Medical Institute - National Institutes of Health Research Scholar Program: Kelly Lynn Buchanan
HVTN RAMP: William Lamar Grant, Jr.
Ideal Physician Award: Elizabeth Pennington Howell
Ovarian Cancer Scholarship: Cassie L. Hobbs
Palumbo Family Award: Victoria Ann Wickenheisser
Poindexter Scholar: Chelsea Noel Handfield, Cierra Sooin Hong and Margaret Marie Coates
R. Randall Bollinger Surgical Scholarship: Elisabeth Reynolds Seyferth
Rauch Family Foundation: Robert Matthew Gramer and Samuel Augustus Hofacker
Senior Scholarship – Anlyan: Amanda Rose Lucier, Charlton Tsai, Elizabeth Pennington Howell, Joshua Kevin Helmkamp, Melissa Hannah Ross, Nicole Hitesh Dalal, Rebecca Lee Vernon, Victoria Ann Wickenheisser and Vinay K. Giri
Senior Scholarship – Barham: Alexandra V. Bocharnikov and Kelly Lynn Buchanan
Singapore Fellowship: Qi Yu
Vice Dean's Research Award: Jennifer Drucker Varner
Military Science
Distinguished Military Graduate: Ethan Charles Eichelman, Katherine Louise Koprowski, William Jackson Swofford, Jackson Stone Wahl and Laurynn Garcia
George C. Marshall Award: William Jackson Swofford
Navy Federal Credit Unit All-American ROTC Finalist: Katherine Louise Koprowski
Music
Ann-Marie Parsons Memorial Prize: Brian Thomas Weil
Ciompi Quartet Award in Chamber Music: Caroline Linjun Wang and Daniel Love Fawcett
Duke Symphony Orchestra Conductor's Award: Robert Meese and Zoey Yunhee Kang
Henry Schuman Music Prize: Richard Clayton Delp
Julia Wilkinson Mueller Prize for Excellence in Music: Amber Tiffany Wolf and Robert Meese
Paul R. Bryan Award: Jill Kathleen Jones, Jeffrey Wenjie Gu and Ryan Patrick Culhane
William Klenz Prize in Music Composition: Osman Eren Gumrukcuoglu
Neuroscience
Outstanding Senior Thesis in Neuroscience: Vivian Wei Chen and Kunal Shroff
Office of Health Professions Advising
Raymond Lublin, M.D. Award: Bryce Filip Starr
Office of the Provost
Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award: Grace Smith
Political Science
Alona E. Evans Prize in International Law: Lama Cheri Hantash and Maximilian Moser
Elizabeth G. Verville Award: Francesca Philips and Julia Flynn Searby
Ole R. Holsti Award in American Foreign Policy and International Relations: David Frisch
The Jerry B. and Callie Irene Stone Award: Elise Noelle Sweezy and Esha Shah
The Robert S. Rankin Award for Leadership and Academic Achievement: Robert Wharton Carlson
The Robert S. Rankin Award in American Government and Constitutional Law: Breanna Bradham
The Robert S. Rankin Award in American, National, State, and Local Governments: Kevin Michael Solomon
Pratt School of Engineering
American Society of Civil Engineers Outstanding Senior Prize: Rachael Ellen Lau
Aubrey E. Palmer Award: Kathryn Anne White
Charles Ernest Seager Memorial Award: Samantha Rebecca Archer and Siyuan Chen
Charles Rowe Vail Memorial Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award: Kerry Marguerite Castor and Grant Ethan Mak
da Vinci Award: Claire Jie Dong, Angus Li, William Ming Tian and Chris Jiayang Zhou
David Randall Fuller Prize: Joshua Robert France and Aditya Prasad Mathur
Edward D. "Ned" Light Memorial Award: Aditi Madan Pilani
Eric I. Pas Award: Tiffany Michelle Wei
George Sherrerd III Memorial Award in Electrical and Computer Engineering: Feroze Kamal Mohideen and Junyu Liang
Helmholtz Award: Chris Jiayang Zhou
Howard G. Clark Award for Excellence in Research: Sabrina Wei Qi, Alexander William Wilson, Robert Wahlstedt, Adrienne Alice Hawkes, Maya Uday Sheth, Bradley Robert Foster and Andrew Ho-Fai Yeung
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Faculty Award: Zachary Bernstein, Ian Keith Eldridge-Allegra, Kathleen VanderKam
Otto Meier, Jr. Tau Beta Pi Award: Feroze Kamal Mohideen and August Tianyin Ning
Pi Tau Sigma Scholarship Award: Kaijie Chen, Benjamin Zachary Edelstein and Katherine Carey Tighe
Raymond C. Gaugler Award in Materials Science and Engineering: Jiwoo Song
Theo C. Pilkington Memorial Award: Bradley Robert Foster
Walter J. Seeley Scholastic Award: Samantha Rebecca Archer, Sarah Catherine Bland, Claire Jie Dong, Ian Keith Eldridge-Allegra, Angus Li, William Ming Tian and Chris Jiayang Zhou
William Brewster Snow Environmental Engineering Award: Alexander William Weck
Psychology
Karl E. Zener Award for Outstanding Performance of an Undergraduate Major in Psychology: Ceren Ebrem
The Jerome S. Bruner Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research: Maria Elizabeth Naclerio
Program II
The Vagwala Award for Service and Leadership to Program II: Olivia Neely
Sanford School of Public Policy
Best Honors Thesis: Tyler Jonathan Kopp
Joel Fleishman Distinguished Scholar Award: Hayden Lynn Manseau
Terry Sanford Leadership Award: Kaylee Lynn Brilhart
Religious Studies
Best Paper Award: Ana Gabriela Ramirez
Romance Studies
Guido Mazzoni Prize in Italian: Katelyn Dorothy Luck
Richard L. Predmore Award in Spanish: Carter Lovvorn
Robert J. Niess / Alexander Hull Award in French: Eli Weed, Maria Espinosa Arguello and Sophia Claire Laettner
School of Nursing
Annie Beery Bieber Award for Outstanding Leadership Award: Robyn Marie Mical
Distinguished PhD Dissertation: Cherie Conley
Outstanding DNP Scholarly Project Award: Brandi Lynn Gibson
Ruby L. Wilson Excellence in Clinical Practice Award: Jeremy Michael Lawson
Sociology
Graduate Teaching Award: Crystal Elaine Peoples
Vorsanger-Smith Graduate Scholar Award: Kevin Robert Kiley and Zimife Uche Umeh
Undergraduate Highest Academic Achievement Award: Claudia Jean LaRose
Ida Harper Simpson Award: Olivia Falchi Simpson
Linda K. George Award: Daisy Almonte
Statistical Science
BEST Award for Undergraduate Research in Statistical Science: Chiwan Kim
Student Affairs
Distinguished Leadership and Service Award: Building Alliances Through Collective Engagement: Sujal Manohar
Distinguished Leadership and Service Award: Commitment to Diversity: Joanne Qiaoan Zheng
Distinguished Leadership and Service Award: Demonstration of Integrity: Harrison Sean Labban
Distinguished Leadership and Service Award: Expanding the Boundaries of Learning: Anna Cunningham and Gaurav Uppal
Distinguished Leadership and Service Award: Respect for Community: Andrew Jacinto Oliver
William J. Griffith University Service Award: Outstanding Contribution to the Duke Community: Annie Chen Yang, Axel Aldair Herrera Ramos, Ana Gabriela Ramirez, Cole Alexander Rizki, Pingyi Zhu, Shyam Pradheep
William J. Griffith University Service Award: Outstanding Contribution to the Durham and Local Community: Axel Aldair Herrera Ramos and George Dominick Shae Crawley IV
William J. Griffith University Service Award: Outstanding Contribution to the Global Community: Ana Gabriela Ramirez
Theater Studies
Harold Brody Award for Excellence in Musical Theater: Adam Seth Beskind
John M. Clum Distinguished Theater Studies Graduate Award: Megison Montgomery Hancock
Reynolds Price Award for Best Original Script for Stage, Screen, or Television: Valerie Elaine Muensterman
Outstanding Acting Student Award: Samantha Steger
Award for Excellence in Directing: Maria Zurita Ontiveros
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Bascom Headen Palmer Literary Prize: Caroline Gioiosa Waring
Robert E. Pristo Filmmaking Awards: Katelyn Auger, Chinonyelum Egbuna, Chloe Kaczmarek, Alex Morelli and James Robinson
Undergraduate Awards
Faculty Scholar Award: Kayla Lynn Corredera-Wells, Kevin Michael Solomon, Valerie Elaine Muensterman and Jay Wolf Zussman. Honorable Mentions: Emre David Cardakli, Jill Kathleen Jones and Alexandru Damian
Phail Wynn Leadership Award: Robin Shawn Yeh
Offive of the Vice Provost for the Arts
Benenson Award in the Arts: Autumn Blamoville; Anthony Cardellini; Jessica Chen; Fella Derris; Rachel Hsu; Kendall Jefferys; Daniel Kim; Kora Kwok; Shaina Lubliner; Thandolwethu Mamba; Sujal Manohar; Robert Meese; Valerie Muensterman; and Robin Yeh
Louis B. Sudler Prize in the Creative Arts and Performing Arts: Thandolwethu Mamba