Class of 2022 Student Awards and Laurels
A list of graduating students awards from schools, departments and in national competitions
The following is a list of national, university, school and departmental awards presented to the members of the Class of 2022. In some awards where there are multiple winners, only members of the Class of 2022 are included.
Nationally Competitive Scholarships
Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship
Yasa Mirza Baig, John Douglas Boom, Grace Ellen Dessert and Anish Gouthum Karpurapu (Presented in 2021)
Gates-Cambridge Scholarship
Ayden Gordon Case (Read more)
Harry S. Truman Scholarship
Carlee Marissa Goldberg (Presented in 2021)
Marshall Scholarship
Yasa Mirza Baig and James Michael Marek (Read more)
Nakayama Scholarship
Sydney Albert, Carlee Goldberg, Erica Langan, Yi Xian “Lyndon” Lee, Anh-Huy Nguyen and Micalyn Struble (Presented in 2021)
Schwarzman Scholarship
Jessica Rose Edelson and Jessie Jiachen Xu (Read more)
Udall Scholarship
Joy Elinor Marian Reeves (Presented in 2021)
School, Department and Unit Awards
Army ROTC
Aerospace Studies
US Air Force ROTC Distinguished Graduate
Camille Ann Bowen and Shannon Cassidy Smith
Society of American Military Engineers Award of Merit
Shannon Cassidy Smith
USAF Developing the Airmen We Need (DAWN-ED) Masters Program Recipient
Shannon Cassidy Smith
Daughters of the American Revolution Award
Shannon Cassidy Smith
Air Force ROTC Cadet of the Year
Camille Ann Bowen
National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) Award
Camille Ann Bowen
Reserve Officers Association Award
Camille Ann Bowen
Air Force Health Professionals Scholarship Recipient
Adam David Roitman
African & African American Studies
John Hope Franklin Award for Academic Excellence
Alex Chao
Karla FC Holloway Award for University Service
Noah Robert McKee
Mary McLeod Bethune Writing Award
Alison Joan Hurst
Walter C. Burford Award for Community Service
Noah Robert McKee
Alumni Engagement and Development
Forever Duke Student Leadership Award
Shreyas Hegde, Richard Lee Hollenbach III, Eric Joseph Juarez, Amaranta Manrique de Lara y Ramírez, Katelyn Mehling Ice, Kirsten Elise Overdahl and Edgar Andres Virguez
Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Mary Duke Biddle Foundation Visual Art Award
Alexis Christine Joseph
Nancy Kaneb Art History Award
Alana Jean Hyman and Abigail Jaye Shlesinger
Sue and Lee Noel Prize in Visual Arts
Alana Jean Hyman
Visual Studies Initiative Award
Nigel Austin Sapp and Hojung Kwon
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
Outstanding AMES Honors Thesis
Soren Christensen
Athletics
ACC Plaque for Excellence, Scholarship and Athletics
Dejanae Davis and Joshua Finesilver
Bass Connections
Award for Outstanding Mentorship
Aislinn Ives McLaughlin, Jaime Jorge Fernando Castrellon, Amanda N. Lazarus and Kathleen Megan Burns
Student Research Award
Vanessa Clairmont, Linda Yang Tang, Bhamini Vellanki, Claire Sui Huang, Madeleine Paris, Ainsley Elizabeth Buck, Sophie Rose Hurewitz, Sama Elmahdy, Hadeel Hamoud, Cameron Grace Cucuzzella, Mahgul Mansoor, Rishav Raj Dasgupta, Rishabh Jain, Grace Anne Llewellyn, Priya Parkash and Travis Kenneth Knoll
Best Poster
Abigail Virginia Naughton, Sagar Sunil Shah, Alexandra Reese Bussey, Colin Luo Lee, Ava Marissa Weinreb, Emily Lincia Chen, Andrew Minsu Shin, Lissette Yesenia Araya, Olivia Hunt and Katherine Gan
Biology
Edward C. Horn Memorial Prize for Excellence in Biology
Ryan Thomas Mullan
Excellence in Plant Science Prize
Juan Antonio Jaramillo-Chico
James B. Rast Memorial Award in Comparative Organismal Biology
Sophie Elise Hanson
Maggie Schneider Award in Marine Biology
David Jamieson Hugo
Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
Chair’s Academic Recognition Award
Yuqing Liu
Outstanding Master’s Project Award–Clinical & Translational Research
Rachel Kelsey D’Anna
Outstanding Master’s Project Award–Data Science
Huimin Wang
Outstanding Master’s Project Award–Methodology
Yi Liu
Overall Academic Excellence Award
Adina Jan, Yi Liu, Peijin Wang, Yujia Wang, Mian Wei, Haotian Zhuang
Student Leadership Award
Shusaku Asai and Peijin Wang
Cinematic Arts
Outstanding Undergraduate Filmmaker Award
Muhammad Sannan Saleh
Rodger Frey Film Essay Award
Ashley Nicole Russell
Classical Studies
Classical Association of the Middle West and South Award for Outstanding Accomplishment in Classical Studies
Brandon Clement Dodds and Sophia Evelyn Dort
Computer Science
Alex Vasilos Memorial Award
Xinyu Tan, Jerry Weihong Liu and Andy Zhang
Rebecca DeNardis Memorial Award
Brandon A Lindsey, Bianca Emilia Saputra, Abbey Grace List, Yanchen Jessie Ou and Daniel Yoontae Hwang
Cultural Anthropology
Judith McDade Prize in Cultural Anthropology
Lucas Carey Lynn
Paul Farmer Award for Justice and Social Responsibility
Elizabeth Heather Kramer
Divinity School
Award for Excellence in Bible
Steven Austin Stapella and Emily Christine Page
Jameson Jones Preaching Award
Shelby Hart Meehan
Frederick Buechner Writing Award
Matthew Jordan Rossi
Hoyt Hickman Award for Excellence in Liturgics
Sarah Jones Fala
McMurry Richey Award in Field Education
Heather Renee Barker
McMurry Richey Award in Missions
Emma Christine Rankin
McMurry Richey Award in Student Pastor
Jason Pate Boggs
Doctor of Physical Therapy
ACAPT National Student Honor Society
Kelly Boyle, Layne Frances Compton, Grace Lee Ditzenberger, Julie Renee Hanson, Lindsay Taylor Heffron, Glenda Bethany Holcomb, Hope Elizabeth Kelly, Alea Ann Penner, Mohammad Ihab Saad, Pia Louise Salcedo, Meredith Foster Smith and Stefanie Michele Stoller
Helen Kaiser Alumni Award
Marcus Laurence Taylor
Inclusive Excellence Award
Pia Louise Salcedo
Jan Gwyer Student Recognition Award for Academic, Clinical, and Scholarly Excellence
Grace Lee Ditzenberger
Robert Bartlett Student Recognition Award for Service and Leadership Excellence
Mohammad Ihab Saad
Documentary Studies
Julia Harper Day Award for Documentary Studies
Sierra Quinn Winters
Duke Arts
Benenson Award in the Arts
Madison Rose Canfora, Scarlett Delaney Guy, Taylor Madison Plett, Alexa Blair Robertson, Muhammad Sannan Saleh, Tenley Shai Seidel, Denise Ariela Shkurovich, Alyssa Wilson, Brandon Tian Xie
Duke Global Health Institute
Madeline Boccuzzi Outstanding Master of Science in Global Health Student Award
Nour Mohamad Hammad
Michael Merson Undergraduate Student Leadership Award in Global Health
Eleanor R. Strand
Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanitities Institute
Oliver W. Koonz Human Rights Prize
Cydney Brooks Livingston
Duke Service-Learning
Betsy Alden Outstanding Service–Learning Award: Graduate Student
Kathryn Ann Elkin
Betsy Alden Outstanding Service–Learning Award: Undergraduate
Pierce Cameron Hollier
Earth and Climate Sciences
Thomas V. Laska Award
Maria Jean Morrison
Economics
Best Thesis
Ryan Jones Hastings, Anh-Huy Nguyen, George Botros Zarif Rateb and Tony Sun
Master’s Program Award for Academic Excellence
Rongze Yang, Yican Liu and Yijin Wang
Master’s Program Award for Leadership
Gregory Campbell Jr., Ruisi Wang and Federico Amato
Outstanding Honors Poster–Faculty Choice
Bryn Elizabeth Wilson, Despoina Chouliara, Nehal Jain and Arthur Luetkemeyer
Outstanding Honors Poster – Student Choice
Praneeth Kandula
English
Anne Flexner Memorial Award for Poetry
(co-winner) Margot Alaine Armbruster
Award for Most Original Honors Thesis
Taylor Madison Plett
Barbara Hernnstein Smith Award for Outstanding Work in Literary Criticism or Theory
Muhammad Tauseef Nadeem
Reynolds Price Fiction Award
Thalia Griffin Halloran
Stanley E. Fish Award for Outstanding Work in British Literature
Kari Tora Larsen
Environment
Marine Science and Conservation Award
Madeleine Paris
Sara LaBoskey Award
Jwalin Kunjal Patel
Virlis L. Fischer Award for Academic Excellence
Benjamin Kenneth Christensen, Megan Daylynn Cook, Lydie Vanessa Costes, Michael Thomas Gaffney, Claire Sui Huang, Samuel C. Somerville and Rachel Lee Toker
Evolutionary Anthropology
Mossé Awards for Excellence in Research in Evolutionary Anthropology
Denise Ariela Shkurovich and Angela Ngozi Anaeme
Fuqua School of Business
Alan D. Schwartz Award for Mentorship
Kelli Renee Valdez
Asa T. Spaulding, Sr. Award for Leadership
Iboro Anna Ikene
The Breeden Award in Finance
Miguel Alexandro Rodriguez and Nicolas Vial Birrell
Deans’ Recognition Award
Agbai E. Agbai Jr., Laura Elizabeth Barnobi, Francesco Bertocco, Stefano Bortoletto, Charlotte L. Brown, Rony Cepeda Mekosh, Eleana Lynn Collins, Robert Randolph Edney, Ashley Sutherland Finke, Sedona Elizabeth Georgescu, Natalie Gilmore, Akash Kapil Gulati, Julie Allison Herman, Anna E. Hofmann, Daria Rayvonne Jordan, Thomas M. Kramer, Mridang Lodha ,Richard Rañola Milante, Sean Michael Moore II, Sierra Nicole Moraven, Kristin Michelle Papierski, William Parish, Kelsey Anne Price, Nicholas Alexander Recka ,Margaret Rudy, Meghna Sahu, Julia Lynne Souba, Santiago Valotta Galazi, Jenna R. Weinberg and Ida Yonas
Distinguished Service Award (MBA)
Hyun Min Chun
Fuqua Daytime HSM Leadership Award
Erin Lipinski
Fuqua EMBA HSM Leadership Award
Stephanie Cassandra Yarnell-Mac Grory
Keohane Leadership Award
Jordan Daniel Lantz and Audrey Rose Dotson
Team Fuqua Award (MBA)
Helen Elizabeth Old
Team Fuqua Award (MQM)
Annike Adelina Cummings
The Graduate School
Dean’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring
Emily J. Levy, Jaime Jorge Fernando Castrellon and Karla Sosa
Dean’s Awards for Excellence in Teaching
Edgar Andres Virguez, Emma Davenport, Emmaline Drew Eliseev and Lauren Nicole Heckelman
History
William T. Laprade Prize
Andrew Loran Raines
International Comparative Studies Program
Capstone Research Prize
Ana Rubi Trejo and Catherine Elisa Howard
Distinguished Thesis Award
Wen Nin Khoo
International House
International Award for Academic Engagement: Graduate/Professional Student Leader of the Year, 2021
Edgar Andres Virguez
International Award for Leadership: Graduate/Professional Student Leader of the Year
Shreyas Hegde
Mathematics
Excellence In Community Service Prize
Daniel Yoontae Hwang
Excellence In Research Award
Craig Xu Chen, Nathan Thomas Geist, Braden Charles Hoagland and Xinyu Tan
Julia Dale Prize in Mathematics
Craig Xu Chen and Xinyu Tan
Karl Menger Award
Jerry Weihong Liu and Haoyang Yu
Medicine
Dean’s Merit Scholarship
Sandra Au, Lefko Theo Charalambous, Emily Lincia Chen, Steven Scott Doerstling, Etienne Ming Flamant, Kunal Om Goel, Bradley Andrew Kawano, Jinwon Lee, Elish Dev Mahajan, Justine Maria McKittrick, Danae Gabrielle Hua Lei Olaso, Caitlin Leigh Penny, Jess David Rames, Meghana V Rao, Hadley Woodruff Reid, Allison Ann Reinhardt, Kai R. Seely, Pali P. Singh, Helen Tang, Jennifer Young Tu and Rosa Ouyue Yang
Dean’s Tuition Scholarship
Rafeal Lateef Baker Jr., HannahSofia Taylor Brown, Nicholas Anthony Frisco, Samantha Ellen Halpern, Sierra Camille Mims, Onyinyechukwu Olive Ohamadike, Allison Danielle Oliva, Ariana R. Paniagua, William Drake Sanders, Melissa Marie Joy Sarver, Lilianna Patricia Suarez, Robin Thomas Tipps and Camilo Toro
Dudley Family Academic Scholarship Fund
Jonathan Palmer Giuliano
Humanism in Medicine Award
Jennifer Young Tu
Joseph Collins Scholarship
Dennis Y. Akrobetu
Medical Student Excellence in Emergency Medicine Award
Emily Cailin Goins
Palmer/GSK Award
Krunal Dhaval Amin and Madison Kay Krischak
Poindexter Scholarship
Vivian Lei and Meghana V. Rao
Primary Care Education Scholarship
Tressa Lee Ellett
Rauch Family Merit Scholarship Fund
Meghan Jennifer Price
Richard W. Finner Award
Jasmine Nkechi Chigbu
Senior- Barham Merit Scholarship
Kai R. Seely
Senior- William G. Anlyan Scholarship
Steven Scott Doerstling and Bradley Andrew Kawano
Strickland Scholarship
Frederick Jacob Heller
Music
Ciompi Quartet Award in Chamber Music
Haoyang Yu, Celina Gu Zhou, Prateek Khandelwal, Crystal Chiu, Caleb Sangjin Woo, Margaret Stacy Lim and Bryan Tong
Duke Symphony Orchestra Conductor’s Award
Prateek Khandelwal, Caroline Ione Surrett and Evelyn Jane Hardin
Henry Schuman Music Prize
Benjamin Kaijie Chin, Bryan Tong and Charles William Zhang
Julia Wilkinson Mueller Prize for Excellence in Music
Bryan Tong
Paul R. Bryan Award
Jeffrey Zheng, Sanika Girish Gupte and Lauren Yizan Sheu
Neuroscience
Outstanding Senior Thesis in Neuroscience
Amanda Sara Andriessen and Rachel Tatiana Estrella
Office for Institutional Equity
Samuel DuBois Cook Award
Ajenai Shareece Clemmons
Office of Biomedical Graduate Education
Chancellor’s Award for Research Excellence (CARE)
Daniel Aaron Snellings, Jeffrey Steven Bourgeois Jr. and Megan Leigh Kelly
Office of Health Professions Advising
Raymond Lublin, M.D. Award
Naira Ikram
Office of the Provost
Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award
Liyu Berhanu Woldemichael
Physics
Daphne Chang Memorial Award
Junzhe Zhou
Rodney I. McCormick Award
Qiyao Liang
Political Science
Alona E. Evans Prize in International Law
Maria Jean Morrison
Elizabeth G. Verville Award
Weston Eric Lindner
Ole R. Holsti Award in American Foreign Policy and International Relations
Mikayla Charity June Curtis
The Robert S. Rankin Award for Leadership and Academic Achievement
Carlee Marissa Goldberg
The Robert S. Rankin Award in American Government and Constitutional Law
Jessica Rose Edelson
The Robert S. Rankin Award in American, National, State, and Local Governments
Gianna Affi
Pratt School of Engineering
American Society of Civil Engineers Outstanding Senior Prize
Valerie Tsao
Aubrey E. Palmer Award
James Michael Marek
Charles Rowe Vail Memorial Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award
Sanika Girish Gupte
da Vinci Award
John Douglas Boom
David Randall Fuller Prize
Isabella Michelle Knox
Edward D. “Ned” Light Memorial Award
Arushi Biswas and Caroline Grace Salzman
Eric I. Pas Award
Qingqi Katherine Li and Jenny Z. Liang
George Sherrerd III Memorial Award in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Alexander Xinliang Oesterling and Juliet Amallia Marzella Yznaga
Helmholtz Award
Michael Qianjun Tian
Howard G. Clark Award for Excellence in Research
Grace Ellen Dessert, Rishabh Jain, Gabrielle Kathryn Marushack, Ethan J Nicklow, Jonathan Jude Shamindra Edward Perera and Simone Adrienne Wall
Marie Foote Reel Undergraduate Research Award
Doherty Guirand
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Faculty Award
Jack Edward Horton and Vincent Yuchen Wang
Otto Meier, Jr. Tau Beta Pi Award
Rebecca Ann Lau
Pi Tau Sigma Scholarship Award
Zhiting Mei and Shannon Cassidy Smith
Pratt School of Engineering Student Service Award
Chishamiso Zano Chideya and Philip Wang Liu
Raymond C. Gaugler Award in Materials Science and Engineering
Rebecca Ann Lau
Theo C. Pilkington Memorial Award
Ramona Sonia Naseri
Walter J. Seeley Scholastic Award
George Hong, James Michael Marek, Juliet Amallia Marzella Yznaga and William Brewster Snow
Environmental Engineering Award
Qingqi Katherine Li and Zehua Wang
Psychology
The Jerome S. Bruner Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research
Jingxuan Liu
Karl E. Zener Award for Outstanding Performance of an Undergraduate Major in Psychology
Malorie Mae Lipstein
Public Policy
Best Honors Thesis
Arya Patel
Joel Fleishman Distinguished Scholar Award
Rebecca Ally DiLuzio
Terry Sanford Leadership Award
Shrey Hiren Majmudar and Olivia Jeanée Reneau
Romance Studies
Guido Mazzoni Prize in Italian
Ethan Michael Bott
Richard L. Predmore Award in Spanish
Brian David Linder
Robert J. Niess / Alexander Hull Award in French
Alexander Henry Goss
Sanford Master of Public Policy Program
MPP Citizenship Award
David Matthew Curtis, Rhea Elizabeth Ninan and Natalie Valent
MPP Service Award
Jessye Halvorson, Kelly Lynn Jasiura, Adina Emiliana Kuncz, Marc Alan Losito, Jorge Anotonio Morales Alfaro, Liza Niccolls Rodler, Isabel Pollock Shapiro, William Shipman and Samantha Sloate
Outstanding MPP Award
Keren Abigail Hendel and Natalie Meltzer
School of Nursing
Annie Beery Bieber Award for Outstanding Leadership Award
Thomas Andrew Sarti
Bonnie Jones Friedman Humanitarian Award
Marquita Harris
Distinguished PhD Dissertation
Hideyo Tsumura
Outstanding DNP Scholarly Project Award
Francisco Ayala Jr. and Evan Blake DeBoard
Ruby L. Wilson Excellence in Clinical Practice Award
Marjorie Hannah Driscoll
Sociology
Highest Academic Achievement Award
Pallavi Avasarala
Ida Harper Simpson Award
Allessandra Caitlann Reuben
Linda K. George Award
Malik Jordan-Deane Scott
Statistical Science
BEST Award for Undergraduate Research in Statistical Science
Abbey Grace List and Shirley Mathur
Statistical Science TA of the Year Award
Meredith Jane Brown
Student Affairs
Distinguished Leadership and Service Award: Commitment to Diversity
Tyler Grace Edwards
Distinguished Leadership and Service Award: Expanding the Boundaries of Learning
Ysanne Nia-Ashleigh Spence
Duke Cornerstone Award: Undergraduate
Grace O’Connor and Eden Faith Schumer
Duke Cornerstone Award: Graduate
Eric Joseph Juarez
William J. Griffith University Service Award: Outstanding Contribution to the Duke Community
Ahmad Ali Khan
William J. Griffith University Service Award: Outstanding Contribution to the Durham and Local Community
Yazmia Nancey Snipes
William J. Griffith University Service Award: Outstanding Contribution to the Global Community
Karina Moreno Bueno
Theater Studies
Alex Cohen Award for Summer Initiatives in Theater
Kaylin Elise Woodward
Award for Excellence in Directing
Kaylin Elise Woodward
Feldman Collaborator’s Award in Memory of Kenneth J. Reardon
Kaylin Elise Woodward
Forlines Family Theater Studies Grant
Madison Rose Canfora
Harold Brody Award for Excellence in Musical Theater
Tenley Shai Seidel
John M. Clum Distinguished Theater Studies Graduate Award
Oliver McCarthy
Outstanding Acting Student
Samantha Elizabeth Streit
Outstanding Technical Theater and Design Student Award
Sarah Anne Larkin
Reynolds Price Award for Best Original Script for Stage, Screen, or Television
Kaylin Elise Woodward and Seth Rosen
Trinity College of Arts and Sciences
Bascom Headen Palmer Literary Prize
Kari Tora Larsen
Undergradute Awards
Phi Beta Kappa
Sydney Leigh Albert, Clayton Ray Baker, Simran Bansal, Sophie Kaufman Barry, Nora Wang Benmamoun, Arushi Biswas, Brooke Ellen Bowen, Sullivan Margaret Brem, Alexa Rose Burnston, Alex Chao, Anni Chen, Toby Chen, Soren Kentaro Tsuru Christensen, Peyton Elizabeth Cox, Cameron Grace Cucuzzella, Candler Leigh Cusato, Karan Snehal Desai, Rebecca Ally DiLuzio, Brandon Clement Dodds, Eric Andrew Doppelt
Sophia Evelyn Dort, Elizabeth Margaret Farmer, Zachary Ryan Freid, Caroline Crouere Gamard, Trevor James Gannalo, Arindam Ghosh, Maria Siena Gieg, Logan Michael Glasstetter, Ritik Purshottam Goyal, Michael David Greenstein, Matthew Lewis Griffin, Angela Caroline Guan, Natalie Bettye Kavita Gulrajani, Angelo Guo, Anjali Gupta, Ryan Jones Hastings, Sonia Shan He, Zachary Ryan Holtz, Naira Ikram, Saagar Jain
Aeva Carina Jazic, Riad Kanj, Hannah Cheyne Kaplon, Andrew Michael Kelly, Prateek Khandelwal, Wen Nin Khoo, Jiyoon Kim, Taylor Kohlmann, Siyun Samuel Lee, Yi Xian Lee, Brenden Li, Malorie Mae Lipstein, Abbey Grace List, Evan Kuei Heng Liu, Jerry Weihong Liu, Jingxuan Liu, Elizabeth Marylynn Loschiavo, Matthew Thomas Majsak, Abigail Clara Mapes, James Michael Marek
Emily Caroline Mawyer, Ryan Thomas Mullan, Sarabesh Natarajan, Alisha Sonali Nayak, Claire McLeod Neushul, Anh-Huy Nguyen, Claire Hagan Parker, Taylor Madison Plett, Anil Prasad, Gwyneth Anne Reece, Ritika Revoori, Heather Ann Robinson, Alix Taylor Rosenberg, Paul Rajeev Sabharwal, Nigel Austin Sapp, Jason Saul Scher, Mason Alexander Schilling, Beatrice Elizabeth Schleupner, Nithiwat Seesillapachai, Tenley Shai Seidel
Jieran Shen, Krishna Sinha, Danielle Christina Smith, Karen Mei Song, Jessica Su, Tony Sun, Sanna Alexandra Symer, Kevin Garyu Tan, Linda Yang Tang, Jordan Aaron Taxay, Eric Tay, Michael Qianjun Tian, Arthi Vaidyanathan, Bryn Elizabeth Wilson, Catherine S Yao, Jason Yu, William Yu, William Jake Zanazzi, Esther Xinru Zhang and Tony Zhang