Class of 2023 Student Honors and Laurels

SCHOOL AND DEPARTMENT AWARDS

African and African American Studies

John Hope Franklin Award for Academic Excellence: Bethlehem T Ferede

Karla FC Holloway Award for University Service: Naim Charles Wright

Mary McLeod Bethune Writing Award: Tia Eve Taiwo Smith

Walter C. Burford Award for Community Service: Nicholas Collin Datto

Alumni Engagement and Development

Forever Duke Student Leadership Award: Shree Bose, Katherine Audrey Winston Butler-Dines, Michelle Elizabeth Carter, Mohanapriya Cumaran, Katherine Dianne Drinkwater, Drew A. Flanagan, Carson Garcia

Hailey Marie Harris, Jenny Yijian Huang, Catherine Ji Won Lee, Elliot Jacob Mamet, Judith Mukiri Mwobobia, Lindsay Danielle Olson, Niara Elyssa Phillips, Hananiel Setiawan, Danielle Leigh Sullivan

Art, Art History & Visual Studies

Mary Duke Biddle Foundation Visual Art Award: Nia Victoria Williams 

Nancy Kaneb Art History Award: Caroline Smith Rettig 

Sue and Lee Noel Prize in Visual Arts: Isabella Bann and Morgan Patton 

Visual Studies Initiative Award: Ayesham Waqar Khan and Jingye Zhang

Athletics

ACC Plaque for Excellence, Scholarship and Athletics: Chak Fung Terence Lee and Chloe Alexandra Beck

Bass Connections

Student Research Award: Pratamesh V Ramasubramanian, Alexandra Bailey Griffen, Lihua Mo-Hunter, Caroline Morin Palmer, Bryan Rabelo Gonzalez, Jack Lawter III, Sophia Margaret McManus, Shih-An Ho, Mihir Sanjay Patel, Kevin Wang, Yinhong Zhao, Audra JoAnn Whithaus, Kelly Hunter, Mohanapriya Cumaran, Sahil Malhotra, and Suraj Upadhya.

Biology

Edward C. Horn Memorial Prize for Excellence in Biology: Dinachi Angelina Okonkwo

Excellence in Plant Science Prize: Xavier Kale Heidelberg

James B. Rast Memorial Award in Comparative Organismal Biology: Magdalena Lundsgaard Phillips 

Maggie Schneider Award in Marine Biology: Nicholas Aaron Kaney

Biology Faculty Award: Samuel M Thomas Gruber and Alexandra Jeannette Bennion

Cinematic Arts

Outstanding Undergraduate Filmmaker Award: William Alexander Julien

Rodger Frey Film Essay Award: Tessa Joy Delgo

Classical Studies

David Taggart Clark Prize: David Morse Mellgard Jr.

Computer Science

Alex Vasilos Memorial Award: William Ruixian He, Nianli Peng, Zeyu Shen, Rui Xin and Xingyu Zhu

Rebecca DeNardis Memorial Award: Arushi Bhatia, Dominique Danielle Buford, Aaric Han, Joon Young Lee and Caleb Andrew Watson.

Cultural Anthropology

Judith McDade Prize in Cultural Anthropology: Preetha Ramachandran

Paul Farmer Award for Justice and Social Responsibility: Kristin Ewurekua Ankoma-Sey

Dance

Dance Writing Award: Nicole Schwartz

Julia Wray Memorial Dance Award: Joseph M. Rauch

Clay Taliaferro Dance Award: Alyssa Lynne Shi

Divinity School

Award for Excellence in Bible – New Testament: Timothy Bennett Crouch

Jameson Jones Preaching Award: Yazmin Nicole Faye Spearman

Frederick Buechner Writing Award: Margaret Allison Garde

Heitzenrater Award for Excellence in History: Timothy Bennett Crouch

Hoyt Hickman Award for Excellence in Liturgics: Joseph Dawson Lane

McMurry Richey Award in Field Education: Brianna Anita Karpowich

McMurry Richey Award in Missions: Michael Anthony Jones

McMurry Richey Award in Student Pastor: Jordan Christopher Braswell

Seminarian Award of the Fellowship of United Methodist in Music and Worship Arts: Victoria Marie Blount.

Doctor of Physical Therapy

ACAPT National Student Honor Society: Amanda Juliette Clarke, Sarah Beth Dolinger, Alexis Tara Franks, Morria Ashlee-Marion Heilman, Nicholle E Lewis, Sarah Ashley Risner, Zian Pan, Julianne Olivia Peters, Frances Marie Sariego, Charlotte Ellen Selters, Melissa Cortes Trujillo

Helen Kaiser Alumni Award: DarShawn Allen Armstrong

DPT Inclusive Excellence Award: Genna Da’Shae Locklear

Jan Gwyer Student Recognition  Award for Academic, Clinical and Scholarly Excellence: Nicholle E Lewis

Robert Bartlett Student Recognition Award for Service and Leadership Excellence: Morria Ashlee-Marion Heilman

Documentary Studies

Julia Harper Day Award for Documentary Studies: Josephine Liyann Vonk

Duke Arts

Benenson Award in the Arts: Rebekah Theresa Alvarenga, Isabella Bann, Miranda Grace Gershoni, Alyssa Lynne Shi, Quinn Compton Smith, Caroline Smith Rettig

Louis Sudler Prize: Nathaniel Maxwell

Duke Global Health Institute

Madeline Boccuzzi Outstanding Master of Science in Global Health Student Award: Stephanie Stan

Michael Merson Undergraduate Student Leadership Award in Global Health: Nikhita Rani Gopisetty

Earth and Climate Sciences

Thomas V. Laska Award: Daniela Rubio-Chavez

Economics

Master’s Program for Leadership: Anuva Saran Agarwal, Jiake Li, Quan Wang

Master’s Program for Academic Excellence: Yuchen Wang, Yuanke Yan, Shuhan Zou

Best Thesis: Yinhong Zhao and Tianjiu Zuo (awarded in 2021)

Outstanding Honors Poster – Student Choice: Yinhong Zhao

Outstanding Honors Poster – Faculty Choice: Richard Timothy Lombardo

English

Anne Flexner Memorial Award for Poetry: Dylan Charles Haston, Lauren Michelle Garbett

Award for Most Original Honors Thesis: Kyle-Brandon Denis

Barbara Hernnstein Smith Award for Outstanding Work in Literary Criticism or Theory: Akshaj Raghu Turebylu

George P. Lucaci Award for Creative Nonfiction (second prize co-winner): Haoning Jiang

Louis J. Budd Award for Outstanding Work in American Literature: Alison Rachel Rothberg, Aiyana Villanueva

Stanley E. Fish Award for Outstanding Work in British Literature: Anneke Elyse Zegers

Terry Welby Tyler, Jr Award for Poetry (co-winner): Tina S. Xia

Environment

Sara LaBoskey Award: Samantha Grace Schulteis

Virlis L. Fischer Award for Academic Excellence: Andrea Patrice Bruns, Claudia Suzanne Deeg, Samantha Sarah DiLoreto, Taro Katayama, Christine Natasha Martens

Evolutionary Anthropology

Mossé Awards for Excellence in Research: Shae Kimberly Simpson, Jonathan Alexander Pertile

Fuqua School of Business

Alan D. Schwartz Award for Mentorship: Kastur Bhattacharjee

Asa T. Spaulding, Sr. Award for Leadership: Ashlynn Lorrain Polanco

The Breeden Award in Finance: Aswasan Joshi, Flavio Meireles Caffarello

Dean’s Recognition Award: Daniel Stephen Auerbach, Christen Baskerville Sutton, Nishanth Bobba Bharadwaj, Jaime Marie Henry-White, Kathlynn E. Hinkfuss, Tyler Marie Kendrick, Kelly McKeon McCarthy, Michael O’Sullivan, Janyiah Brianna Olawale, Aria Merie Pipp, Aspen Nikole Walker, Abigail McEntee Williams

Distinguished Service Award (MBA): Andrew David Fischer

Fuqua Daytime HSM Leadership Award: Abigail McEntee Williams

Fuqua EMBA HSM Leadership Award: Timothy M. Conkin

Keohane Leadership Award: Aditya Amol Samant, Jennifer Marie Sibel

The Graduate School

Dean’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring: Bijan Masood Abar, Erika Marie Chelales

Dean’s Awards for Excellence in Teaching: Catherine Ji Won Lee

Sloan Scholar: Cameron M. Darwin, Niara Elyssa Phillips, David Anthony Pujol

International Comparative Studies Program

Capstone Research Prize: Steven Jeffrey Powell

Journalism and Media Studies

The Patterson Prize for Excellence, Leadership and Integrity in Journalism: Christopher Dillon Kuo

Marine Science and Conservation

Marine Science and Conservation Award: Lauren Elise Miller

Mathematics

Excellence In Community Service Prize: Garrett Patrick Allen, Amber Naisang Skinner

Excellence In Research Award: Carson Woodbury Dudley, Yijia Liu

Julia Dale Prize in Mathematics: Feng Cong, Yijia Liu

Karl Menger Award: Yijia Liu, Zeyu Shen, Kevin Hua Tu

School of Medicine

Dean’s Merit Scholarship: Sierra Johleen Atwater, Morgan Elizabeth Belina, Kathy Ziyue Dai, John Dudinec, Michael Seth Flynn, Raluca Elena Gosman, Hailey Marie Harris, Darby Michelle Herkert, Bridget Therese Kiely, Molly Christine Kuehn, Alexis Jean Musick, Sabrena Okeisha Myers, Anna Katherine Paschall Neel, Krishna Prabhu

Dean’s Tuition Scholarship: Christopher Ricard Lea, Chinedu Okafor, Lindsay Danielle Olson, Rebecca Jia Shen, Best Ikenna Uchehara, Linda Mayra Alejandra Zambrano Guevara

Dudley Family Academic Scholarship Fund: Kathryn Rose-Keppel Benson

Humanism in Medicine Award: Willis Yukwai Wong

Palmer/GSK Award: Neel Krishna Prabhu

Rauch Family Merit Scholarship Fund: Margaret Hannah Barlet

Senior-Barham Merit Scholarship: Raluca Elena Gosman

Strickland Scholarship: Camille G. Robinson

William Wagner, M.D. Medicine Merit Scholarship: Sabrena Okeisha Myers

Music

Ciompi Quartet Award in Chamber Music: Dylan Cai, Jacob Liu, David Li, Jacob Ryan Egol, Preston Bowman, William Zheng-Yu Guo, Edward Chen, Josephine Elise Jamison, Lauren Evelyn Simmons

Duke Symphony Orchestra Conductor’s Award: Jacob Ryan Egol, Chester Julian Tyson V, Sabrina Colleen Camacho, Emma Lofgren

Henry Schuman Music Prize: Nathaniel Colby Maxwell

Julia Wilkinson Mueller Prize for Excellence in Music: Francesca Isabel Herrera, Nathaniel Colby Maxwell

Paul R. Bryan Award: David William Johnston, Isabella Gordon Larsen, Meghan Helen Merenich

Neuroscience

Outstanding Senior Thesis in Neuroscience: Grace Rae Lee, Anna Christine MacFarlane

Office of Health Professions Advising

Raymond Lublin, M.D. Award: Andy Qiao

Office of the Provost

Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award: “Adela” Yuxuan Guo

Physics

Daphne Chang Memorial Award: Mathew Wai-Lung Mammen

Political Science

Alona E. Evans Prize in International Law: Satya Kaur Khurana

Elizabeth G. Verville Award: Darren Louis Janz

The Jerry B. and Callie Irene Stone Award: Thuan Trahn

Ole R. Holsti Award in American Foreign Policy and International Relations: Ritika Aanchal Saligram

The Robert S. Rankin Award for Leadership and Academic Achievement: Thomas Williams Ross

The Robert S. Rankin Award in American Government and Constitutional Law: Megan Ann Gerges

The Robert S. Rankin Award in American, National, State, and Local Governments: Jonah Miller Perrin

Pratt School of Engineering

American Society of Civil Engineers Outstanding Senior Prize: Dea Muca, Arthur Tsang

Aubrey E. Palmer Award: Arthur Tsang

Charles Rowe Vail Memorial Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award: Colin Mitchell Bernstein, Eric Jiayuan Qi

da Vinci Award: Reed River Chen, Andy Qiao

David Randall Fuller Prize: Riddhi Ranjithkumar

Edward D. “Ned” Light Memorial Award: Reed River Chen

Eric I. Pas Award: Matthew Edward Brune, Alexandra Rivera

George Sherrerd III Memorial Award in Electrical and Computer Engineering: Felix Jiang, Cathylin Wen Wang

Helmholtz Award: Sophia Leigh Vincoff

Howard G. Clark Award for Excellence in Research: Akhil Bedapudi, Arunangshu Chakrabarty, Seijung Kim, Jacob Vosters Spruance Jr., Suraj Upadhya

Marie Foote Reel Undergraduate Research Award: Erin Liu

Mechanical Engineering and  Materials Science Faculty Award: Thomas Albert Livesay, Jacob Aaron Manders

Otto Meier, Jr. Tau Beta Pi Award: Luke Kevin Turkovich

Pi Tau Sigma Scholarship Award: Katherine Dianne Drinkwater, Tanner James Zachem

Pratt School of Engineering Student Service Award: Katherine Dianne Drinkwater

Raymond C. Gaugler Award in Materials Science and Engineering: Andrew Liu, Richard Sheng

Theo C. Pilkington Memorial Award: Skylah Connelly

Walter J. Seeley Scholastic Award: Jared Steven Bank, Reed River Chen, Dane Theodore Erickson, Shaan Gondalia, William Zheng-Yu Guo, Felix Jiang, Jacob Aaron Manders Michael McCullom Jr., Andy Qiao, Paul Bureau Truitt

William Brewster Snow Environmental Engineering Award: Alexandra Rivera

Psychology

The Jerome S. Bruner Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research: Pranav Athimuthu, Anna Sophie Greenleaf

Karl E. Zener Award for Outstanding Performance of an Undergraduate Major in Psychology: Anna Sophie Greenleaf

Public Policy

Best Honors Thesis: Mary Caroline Monti

Joel Fleishman Distinguished Scholar Award: Nicholas Eugene Camposano

Terry Sanford Leadership Award: Alexander Thomas Hoffman, Quinn Compton Smith

Religious Studies

Best Paper Award: Abigail Thompson Phillips

Romance Studies

Guido Mazzoni Prize in Italian: Daniel Lee Sutton

Paol Keineg Award: Stephen Paul Atkinson

Richard L. Predmore Award in Spanish: William Bradley Hayes Jr.

Robert J. Niess /Alexander Hull Award in French: Audrey Elizabeth Costley

School of Nursing

Annie Beery Bieber Award for Outstanding Leadership: Jacob Alexander Pinto

Bonnie Jones Friedman Humanitarian Award: Nancie Denise Deckard

Distinguished PhD Dissertation: Jihye Kim Scroggins

Outstanding DNP Scholarly Project Award: Christine Elizabeth Parrilli

Ruby L. Wilson Excellence in Clinical Practice Award: Shayla Edwards Taylor

Thelma Ingles Excellence in Clinical Expertise and Scholarly Activities Award: Paige Elizabeth Romer

Sociology

Highest Academic Achievement Award: Haripriya Dukkipati

Ida Harper Simpson Award: Gianni Christina Melodi Lacey-Howard

Linda K. George Award: Julia Anna Murrow

Statistical Science

Statistical Science TA of the Year Award: Evan Michael Dragich

Student Affairs

Distinguished Leadership Award: Building Alliances Through Collective Engagement: Amanda Elizabeth Ostuni

Distinguished Leadership Award:  Demonstration of Integrity: Devan Pratik Desai

Distinguished Leadership Award:  Expanding the Boundaries of Learning: Isabel Ann Wood

Duke Cornerstone Award: Undergraduate: Drew Flanagan

William J. Griffith University Service Award: Outstanding Contribution to the Durham and Local Community: Swetha Rajagopal

Theater Studies

Alex Cohen Award for Summer Initiatives in Theater: Anastacia Pogodina

Dale B.J. Randall Award in Dramatic Literature: Tia Eve Taiwo Smith

Feldman Collaborator’s Award in Memory of Kenneth J. Reardon: Tia Eve Taiwo Smith

Harold Brody Award for Excellence in Musical Theater: Anna Grace Shenk-Evans

John M. Clum Distinguished Theater Studies Graduate Award: Tia Eve Taiwo Smith

Trinity College of Arts and Sciences

Bascom Headen Palmer Literary Prize: Tessa Joy Delgo